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Film details
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Featuring
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Director
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Country
USA
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Year
1975
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Genre
Horror
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Introduction
“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.”
Pauline Kael, The New Yorker, 1976
The young Steven Spielberg had terrorised audiences with his truck-with-a-mind-of-its-own debut Duel (1971) and bigger budget Jaws confirmed him as a filmmaker of tension-ratcheting abilities not seen since the heyday of Alfred Hitchcock.
Based on a pulpy bestseller by Peter Benchley, this is a masterfully constructed thriller about three disparate men – a cop (Roy Scheider), a scientist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a sea dog (Robert Shaw) – setting out in a boat to capture a shark that’s terrorising swimmers off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard.
From the classic opening, in which two amorous teenagers leave a beach party to take a perilous dip, through numerous brilliantly set up, precisely edited subsequent attack sequences, Spielberg’s chilling adventure is the rollercoaster movie par excellence.
Hitchcock’s man-against-nature horror story The Birds (1963) was a prime inspiration. The first of three sequels, Jaws 2, followed in 1978.
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Chief Martin Brody
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Captain Quint
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Matt Hooper
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Ellen Brody
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Mayor Larry Vaughn
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Ben Meadows, the editor
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Lenny Hendricks
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Christine Watkins, 'Chrissie', first victim
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Tom Cassidy
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estuary victim
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Michael Brody
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Sean Brody
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Mrs Kintner
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Alex Kintner
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Ben Gardner
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medical examiner
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TV interviewer
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fisherman attacked by shark
Ed Chalmers (uncredited)
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fisherman attacked by shark
Bob Chalmers (uncredited)
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Keisel
Al Wilde (uncredited)
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Quint's mate
Hershel West (uncredited)
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old man being trampled at beach
Dwight Francis (uncredited)
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kiosk owner
Frank Murray (uncredited)
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people on the island
Woodrow Wilson Sayre (uncredited)
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people on the island
John Alley (uncredited)
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people on the island
Stan Hart (uncredited)
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people on the island
John Painter (uncredited)
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people on the island
Bill O'Gorman (uncredited)
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people on the island
Donald Poole (uncredited)
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people on the island
Fanny Blair (uncredited)
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people on the island
Eleanor Harvey (uncredited)
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people on the island
William Blood (uncredited)
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people on the island
Henry Carriero (uncredited)
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people on the island
Carol Feiner (uncredited)
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people on the island
Arthur Young (uncredited)
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people on the island
Stephen Carey Luce (uncredited)
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people on the island
Carol Fligor (uncredited)
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people on the island
Maggie Moffett (uncredited)
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people on the island
William Abbe (uncredited)
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people on the island
Arthur Nicol (uncredited)
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people on the island
Crosby Foster (uncredited)
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people on the island
George Silva (uncredited)
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people on the island
Tom Joyner (uncredited)
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people on the island
Andy Stone (uncredited)
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lifeguard with megaphone/voice on radio
Steven Spielberg (uncredited)
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Credits
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Direction:
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Directed by
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Assistant Director (1st)
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Assistant Director (2nd)
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Script Supervisor
Production:
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©/Production Company
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Production Company
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Produced by
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Produced by
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Production Executive
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Unit Production Manager
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[Production Assistant]
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[Production Assistant]
Casting:
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Location Casting
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[Casting Assistant]
Writing:
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Screenplay by
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Screenplay by
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[Screenplay]
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[Screenplay]
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Based upon the novel by
Photography:
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Director of Photography
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Live Shark Footage Filmed by
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Live Shark Footage Filmed by
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Underwater Photography
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Camera Operator
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[Camera Assistant]
Stills:
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[Stills]
Special Effects:
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Special Effects
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[Artificial Shark Operator]
Editing:
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Film Editor
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[Assistant Editor]
Design:
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Production Designer
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Set Decorations
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[Quint's Boat Design]
Costumes:
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[Costumes]
Make-up:
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Cosmetics by
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[Make-up]
Titles:
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Titles and Optical Effects
Music:
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Music by
Sound:
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Sound
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Sound
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[Sound Editor]
Stunts:
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[Stunt Co-ordinator]
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[Stuntman]
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[Stunt Double for Richard Dreyfuss]
Consultant:
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Technical Adviser
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[Shark Expert]
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[Transportation]
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