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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.Product Identifiers
ProducerDavid Brown, Richard D. Zanuck
EAN5050582048049
eBay Product ID (ePID)44084335
Product Key Features
ActorLorraine Gary, Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss
Film/TV TitleJaws
DirectorSteven Spielberg
LanguageEnglish
Subtitle LanguageArabic\Bulgarian\Czech\Danish\Dutch\Finnish\French\German\Greek\Hebrew\Hindi\Hungarian\Icelandic\Italian\Norwegian\Polish\Portuguese\Spanish\Swedish\Turkish
Run Time119 Mins
Aspect Ratio2.35 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Release Year2005
FeaturesMaking Of Jaws Featurette\Deleted Scenes\Outtakes\Shark World Educational Featurette\Shark Trivia Game\Storyboards\Production Drawings\Screensavers\3 Original Theatrical Trailers\Production Notes\Cast And Film Makers Notes\Photo Galleries, Widescreen, Closed Caption, With Subtitles
GenreThriller, General
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate12A/12
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
Hearing ImpairedEnglish
ComposerJohn Williams
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, USA Today - ...The phenomenon that invented 'the summer movie'...
ScreenwriterCarl Gottlieb, Peter Benchley
Dubbing LanguagesGerman\French\Spanish\Italian
AuthorPeter Benchley
CinematographerBill Butler, Rexford Metz
Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1\Dolby Digital Mono
Movie/TV TitleJaws
Consumer AdviceContains moderate threat and occasional gory moments