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From the best-selling novel by Peter Benchley, Steven Spielberg directed this thrill ride of terror. During the height of beach season, the Massachusetts resort town of Amity Island is terrorised one summer by surprise attacks from a great white shark. Three unlikely partners team up to hunt down the rogue and destroy it: the new chief of police from New York (Roy Scheider), a young university-educated oceanographer (Richard Dreyfuss), and a crusty old-time fisherman (Robert Shaw). The film shoot was notoriously difficult for the young Spielberg, who had directed only one feature film before JAWS. The mechanical shark seldom operated correctly, and Spielberg was frequently forced to create the idea of terror without actually showing the shark. However, after the film premiered it went on to become the highest-grossing film of all time surpassing THE GODFATHER and becoming the first film to gross more than a hundred million dollars. Composer John Williams created the score to JAWS, which has since become a well-known theme of impending doom. Ron and Valerie Taylor were responsible for filming live sharks in Australia; their sequences were later mixed with footage of the mechanical shark.

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EAN5050582423792

eBay Product ID (ePID)52100490

Product Key Features

ActorLorraine Gary, Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss

Film/TV TitleJaws

DirectorSteven Spielberg

FormatDVD

Release Year2006

LanguageEnglish

FranchiseJaws

GenreThriller, General

Run Time119 Mins

Additional Product Features

Certificate12A/12

Number of Discs1

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

ReviewsSight And Sound - Its combination of thrills, suspense and smart characterisation has rarely been matched, Entertainment Weekly - It pretty much rewrote the rules for the modern-day blockbuster, Premiere - A record-shattering success..., Total Film - ...This fishy thriller is still Steven Spielberg's best movie, New Yorker - It may be the most cheerfully perverse scare movie ever made. Even while you're convulsed with laughter you're still apprehensive, because the editing rhythms are very tricky, and the shock images loom up huge, right on top of you., USA Today - ...The phenomenon that invented 'the summer movie'...

Movie/TV TitleJaws