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1975

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Starring	Murray Hamilton, Susan Backlinie, Lee Fierro, Jonathan Filley
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	Murray Hamilton, Susan Backlinie, Lee Fierro, Jonathan Filley, Carl Gottlieb, Jeffrey Kramer, Jay Mello, Peter Benchley, Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary
Director	Steven Spielberg
Studio	SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 59 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 59 mins
Certificate
Collections	100 Horror Films, 100 Top Thrillers, American Film Institute's top 100
Genres	Thriller
Language	DVD: English Blu-ray: English
Dubbed	German, French, Spanish, Italian
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 Blu-ray: 02 Nov 2012 Blu-ray: 03 Sep 2012

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  Principally, 'Jaws' is about a huge shark terrorizing a commonly serene coastal town up in the north-eastern United States. After the attacks grow to be... read more »
  
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  the only good one from the series
  
  brilliant and 70's horrific film.
  
  this film was the start and the only good one of the whole Jaws series.
  
  not so much horror as more ... read more »
  
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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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Movie bosses are to mark the 50th birthday of the James Bond franchise this year (12) by staging the biggest ever exhibition of iconic props from the spy films. Eon Productions chiefs have released a dazzling array of costumes, gadgets and cars from the 007 movies to go on display in London in the summer (12). The famous exhibits include Goldfinger henchman Oddjob's bowler hat, the metal teeth sported by Jaws in two 1970s Bond films, Scaramanga's pistol from The Man With The Golden Gun, 007's... Read more
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