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Beat Records is proud to present the world premiere on CD of the complete original motion picture soundtrack for the movie Il cacciatore di squali, directed in 1979 by Enzo G. Castellari. Superstar Franco Nero is Mike Di Donato, an Italian-American with a mysterious past dominated by a terrible event from which he is probably fleeing, leads the life of a good savage on a deserted island with his own version of Friday, played by Marta Miller, the gorgeous Argentinian actress with a prolific career in genre cinema. There are obviously many differences between this and Defoe's Crusoe, as this is a contemporary story that merely takes some aesthetic inspiration from the aforementioned novel, mainly the isolation from civilization and immersion in nature. In this movie, we have a lot of modern-day elements such as the struggle against authoritarianism, technology, bullying attitudes from the not-too-specific organization with which Mike was employed, and the search for a lost treasure hidden inside a plane 120 meters below the surface of the ocean which apparently can only be retrieved by the protagonist. To accomplish this feat, Mike seeks the collaboration of Acapulco (Jorge Luke) and faces a series of inconveniences and hostility, with everything playing out in the presence of the sea's most dangerous predator. Also notable is the remarkable performance by the director as a mysterious killer who is operating in the background while evil (or would-be evil) criminals such as Ramon (Werner Pochat), Donovan (Michael Forest), and Gomez (Eduardo Fajardo) pursue their agenda aided by their minions. The soundtrack was composed by Guido & Maurizio de Angelis during a deeply influential period in music history, as 1979 was the moment in which the disco music phenomenon was spreading like wildfire across the world, infusing every creative endeavor with it's powerful energy, and th
