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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 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.Product Identifiers
ProducerDavid Brown, Richard D. Zanuck
EAN5035822009448
eBay Product ID (ePID)3945896
Product Key Features
ActorCarl Gottlieb, Jonathan Filley, Lorraine Gary, Lee Fierro, Murray Hamilton, Jay Mello, Jeffrey Kramer, Robert Shaw, Susan Backlinie, Peter Benchley, Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss
Film/TV TitleJaws
DirectorSteven Spielberg
LanguageEnglish
Subtitle LanguageArabic\Bulgarian\Czech\Danish\Dutch\English\Finnish\French\German\Greek\Hebrew\Hindi\Hungarian\Icelandic\Italian\Norwegian\Polish\Portuguese\Spanish\Swedish\Turkish
Run Time119 Mins
Aspect Ratio2.35 Anamorphic Wide Screen
FormatDVD
Release Year2000
FeaturesWidescreen, 25th Anniversary Edition\Making 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, With Subtitles
FranchiseJaws
GenreThriller, General
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate12A/12
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
ComposerJohn Williams
Production DesignerJoe Alves
ScreenwriterCarl Gottlieb, Howard Sackler, Peter Benchley
AuthorPeter Benchley
Dubbing LanguagesGerman\French\Spanish\Italian
Set DesignerJohn M. Dwyer
Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1\Dolby Digital Mono
Format DescriptionDVD 9
Movie/TV TitleJaws
EditorVerna Fields
Director of PhotographyBill Butler