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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 attacks beachgoers at a summer resort town.
Matawan's location made it an unlikely site for interactions between sharks and humans. When Thomas Cottrell, a sea captain and Matawan resident, spotted an 8-foot-long (2.4 m) shark in the creek, the town dismissed him. [5] Around 2:00 PM a group of local boys, including young Lester Stillwell, 11, were playing in the creek together.
The final domestic gross for Jaws 2 was $102,922,376, making it the sixth highest domestic grossing film of 1978. [72] Jaws 2 grossed $208 million worldwide. Jaws 3-D grossed $13,422,500 on its opening weekend, [73] playing at 1,311 theaters at its widest release. It had achieved a total lifetime worldwide gross of $87,987,055. [74]
In 2005, he appeared in Shark Hunter: Chasing the Great White, a Shark Week documentary, which was narrated by actor Roy Scheider, who played Martin Brody in Jaws and Jaws II. The special told of Mundus' early career, how he became the inspiration for Quint, his world record capture, and how he turned from shark hunter to shark conservationist.
A scene-stealing kid from the film Jaws is now the police chief on the island where the film was made.. Jonathan Searle was selected this week as the police chief of Oak Bluffs, Mass., a small ...
Jaws 2 is a 1978 American horror thriller film [1] directed by Jeannot Szwarc and co-written by Carl Gottlieb. It is the sequel to Steven Spielberg 's Jaws (1975), and the second installment in the Jaws franchise .
Jaws is set in the fictional town of Amity, a small, seaside resort located on the south shore of Long Island, halfway between Bridgehampton and East Hampton.One night, after making love with a man on the beach, a young woman named Christine Watkins skinny dips alone in the ocean where she is attacked and killed by a massive great white shark.
The Land Shark (also land shark, landshark, LandShark) was a recurring character from the sketch comedy television series Saturday Night Live.. The character first appeared during the show's debut season in the fall of 1975 as a response to the release of the film Jaws [1] and the subsequent hysteria over purported shark sightings.