B007STBUHI

025192126291

1975

1975-06-20

124

2h 4min

Top rated movie #205 , Won 3 Oscars, 15 wins & 20 nominations total

Steven Spielberg

Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb

Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss

David Brown, Richard D. Zanuck

John Williams

Bill Butler

Verna Fields

Joe Alves

John M. Dwyer

Del Armstrong, Verne Caruso, John Chambers, Jim Gillespie, Werner Keppler

James Fargo, Charles Clement

Barbara Bass, Tom Joyner, Joe Alves, Verna Fields, L. Andrew Stone

Mike May, Frank Nifong, William A. Petrotta, Ward Welton, Thomas J. Wright

John R. Carter, Robert L. Hoyt, Thomas E. Allen, George Fredrick, Walter A. Gest, William Griffith, Roger Heman Jr., Franklin Jones Jr., Earl Madery, John McDonald, Frank Meadows, Colin C. Mouat, Dennis C. Salcedo, Roger Sword, James Troutman

Robert A. Mattey, Roy Arbogast, Tim Baar, Johnny Borgese, Don Chandler, Richard S. Edwards, Richard O. Helmer, Ted Koerner, Conrad Kromm, Stanley Mahony, Kevin Pike, Harry Shepherd, Charles Spurgeon, Richard Stutsman, Eddie Surkin, Gary Wood, Michael Wood

Grant McCune

Richard E. Butler, Denise Cheshire, Howard Curtis, Ted Grossman, Hubie Kerns Jr., Preston Peterson, Frank James Sparks, Ron Veto, Dick Warlock, Fred Zendar, Dick Ziker

Michael Chapman, Rexford L. Metz, Ron Taylor, Valerie Taylor, Lou Barlia, Sandy Brooke, Vito Carenzo, Joe Cole, James A. Contner, Rocco Damiano, Tony DeGeorge, Tim Evans, David Fay, Louis Goldman, Jake Jarrell, Harry Jukes, Guy Polzel, Peter Salim, Fred Schuler, William Tandrow, Bill Tenny, Ronald Vidor, Dennis Young, Ron Zarilla

Shari Rhodes

Louise Clark, Robert Ellsworth, Irwin Rose

William C. Carruth, Rick Fields, Jeff Gourson

Nick Chiarolanzio

London Symphony Orchestra, Robert Bain, Israel Baker, Harry Bluestone, Tom Boyd, Larry Bunker, Vince De Rosa, David Duke, Joseph Glassman, Ralph Grierson, The Hollywood Studio Symphony, Joe Howard, Tommy Johnson, Ted Keep, Paul Kegg, Shelly Manne, William Mays, Malcolm McNab, Richard Nash, Erno Neufeld, John Neufeld, Uan Rasey, Emil Richards, George Roberts, Ernie Rosecrans, Glen Rosecrans, Paul Shure, Herbert W. Spencer, Steven Spielberg, Ann Stockton, Sheridon Stokes, Tommy Tedesco, James Thatcher, Louise Di Tullio, Lloyd Ulyate, John Williams, Graham Young

Charlsie Bryant, Hal Barwood, Lowell James Gerry Sr., Matthew Robbins, Howard Sackler

Mel Bingham, Lorenzo Porricelli, Julian Powell

William S. Gilmore, Fred Zendar, Mark DeFeo, Al Ebner, Rick Fields, Helen Jackson, Gerry Lewis, John Milius, Ron Veto, Danny Young

Leonard J.V. Compagno

Adventure, Thriller

Zanuck/Brown Productions, Universal Pictures

USA

English

PG

8.1

599532

87

Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley. It stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody who, with the help of a marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a professional shark hunter (Robert Shaw), hunts a man-eating great white shark that is attacking beachgoers at a summer resort town. Murray Hamilton plays the mayor, and Lorraine Gary portrays Brody s wife. The screenplay is credited to Benchley, who wrote the first drafts, and actor-writer Carl Gottlieb, who rewrote the script during principal photography.

Shot mostly on location on Martha s Vineyard in Massachusetts, Jaws was the first major motion picture to be shot on the ocean, and consequently had a troubled production with issues such as going over budget and past schedule. As the art department s mechanical sharks often malfunctioned, Spielberg decided mostly to suggest the shark s presence, employing an ominous and minimalist theme created by composer John Williams to indicate its impending appearances. Spielberg and others have compared this suggestive approach to that of director Alfred Hitchcock. Universal Pictures release of the film to over 450 screens was an exceptionally wide release for a major studio picture at the time, and it was accompanied by an extensive marketing campaign with a heavy emphasis on television spots and tie-in merchandise.

Jaws was the prototypical summer blockbuster, regarded as a watershed moment in motion picture history, and it won several awards for its music and editing. It was the highest-grossing film until the release of Star Wars in 1977. Both films were pivotal in establishing the modern Hollywood business model, which pursues high box-office returns from action and adventure films with simple high-concept premises, released during the summer in thousands of theaters and advertised heavily. Jaws was followed by three sequels (without the involvement of Spielberg or Benchley) and many imitative thrillers. In 2001, it was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant .

$7,000,000 (estimated)

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$265,551,610

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