(Michael Ritchie, US 1980, 114 min., 35mm)

Michael Caine stars as Blair Maynard, a journalist who begins an investigation into a series of missing boats. Traveling with his son, Maynard stumbles across a band of modern-day, yacht-raiding pirates led by John David Nau (David Warner). Trying to protect himself and his son, Maynard allows himself to be inducted into the tribe of pirates. Novelist Peter Benchley wrote the screenplay for this contemporary thriller, an adaptation of his bestselling follow-up to Jaws.