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1975

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Starring	Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary
Director	Steven Spielberg
Genres	Thriller

Jaws

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 terrorized 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 one 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.

Starring	Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Susan Backlinie, Lee Fierro, Jonathan Filley, Carl Gottlieb, Jeffrey Kramer, Jay Mello, Peter Benchley
Director	Steven Spielberg
Studio	SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 59 mins
Certificate
Collections	100 Horror Films, 100 Top Thrillers, American Film Institute's top 100
Genres	Thriller
Language	DVD: English
Dubbed	French, German, Italian, Spanish
Subtitles	DVD: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Released	Production year: 1975 To Rent: DVD: 01 Dec 2003

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- In the exploitation-hungry seventies this film took more money than any other. In itself, despite genuinely suspenseful and frightening sequences, it is a slackly narrated and sometimes flatly handled thriller with an over-abundance of dialogue and, when
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  A "must-see" film but, for me, there is something that stops it reaching cinematic heights.
  
  I thought about rating this film as 3 Stars but finally decided that the extra half Star is warranted by this biggest profit-making movie of the 1970s.
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  The greatest movie ever made.
  
  My favourite movie of all time, The cast and script are note perfect and the character development is second to none. Couple that with excellent pacing and ... read more »
  
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  A "must-see" film but, for me, there is something that stops it reaching cinematic heights.
  
  I thought about rating this film as 3 Stars but finally decided that the extra half Star is warranted by this biggest profit-making movie of the 1970s.
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  Heads, shoulders, knees and toes....and that's just for starters
  
  The shark’s a duff and John Williams’s music saves the movie to some extent but for me this film’s also about the actors’ as well as ... read more »
  
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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 terrorized one summer by surprise attacks from a great white shark. Three unlikely partners team up to hunt down ...