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Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis   1991             TV, 92 min. Genre: Drama Director: Robert Iscove   Cast: Stacy Keach, Richard Thomas, Don Harvey, Robert Cicchini, David Caruso, Bob Gunton, Steve Landesberg, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Tim Guinee, Andrew Prine   It is World War II, and the USS Indianapolis had just delivered the atomic bomb that would be used on Hiroshima. A Japanese submarine torpedoed the ship, but due to the secrecy surrounding the mission, rescue attempts were not made for several days and by then hundreds of crews' lives were lost in the shark-infested waters. Following the war, an expedient court martial dealt with the cover-up.