"Orca: The Killer Whale"

This week I'll be summarizing 1977's Orca: The Killer Whale.
This film was created in the height of the Jaws era and was meant to try to capture some of the hype. Appropriately the film begins with some aquatic scientists diving off the coast of Newfoundland and being stalked by a great white shark. At the same time the shark is stalking the divers, it is also being stalked by a group of fishermen. One of the divers falls off of his boat and the sharks barrels forward to snatch him up. Suddenly an Orca appears as if from no where to intercept the great white and kill him. Witnessing the strength and ability of the Orca sparks an interest in the fisherman who was trying to catch the shark.
The fisherman, Nolan, decides to try to catch a live Orca to sell to a theme park even though he has no experience catching live sea creatures and really knows next to nothing about whales. He builds an enclosure to keep the whale once he's captured it and heads out with his crew. They stumble upon a pair of Orcas swimming along and decide to harpoon one to get it up onto the boat. They miss the male Orca and instead hit the female. The harpoon does much more damage to the female than intended and she goes berserk. When they're finally able to pull her up onto the deck of the boat and see how much blood she's loosing, she gives birth to an underdeveloped plastic whale fetus.
Seeing his wife and until then unborn child murdered in front of him sends the male Orca into a murderous rampage. The whale starts ramming himself into the bottom of the boat and the crew scramble to stop him. One of the men climbs out to cut the rope holding the female on deck, releasing her body back into the water. The whale uses this opportunity to jump out of the water and snatch the crew member from the pole and kill him. Then the Orca pushes his dead female's body along and follows the boat back to the bay. Once he finds where Nolan lives he starts terrorizing the little fishing village. He goes around scaring away all the fish, bashing holes in boats, and even setting fire to the harbor's dock complex. (That's right- the whale set the docks on fire) The other fishermen demand that Nolan go out to hunt to Orca down and put an end to this chaos. Even a wise old Indian man comes and says that the whale must be killed.
Before he's able to make up his mind, the Orca starts terrorizing Nolan's other crew members. He knocks down the house, which unfortunately is built on stilts above the water, of a female crew member played by Bo Derek, and bites off one of her (beautiful) legs. Nolan piles his remaining crew into his boat and heads out to sea. The Orca leads the boat to the icy north, picking off crew members along the way. Once very far north the whale pushes a small iceberg into the side of the boat causing it to capsize. Nolan rushes out onto a sheet of ice to flee the sinking boat but the whale starts punching holes through the thin sheet. The whale tips the sheet up and Nolan falls in the water and tries to escape death by grabbing onto the Orca's tail. The Orca flips his tail suddenly forward, pitching Nolan into an iceberg, killing him. Nolan tumbles down into the water and the Orca swims happily away.
The end.