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Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name. The prototypical summer blockbuster, its release is regarded as a watershed moment in motion picture history. In the story, a giant man-eating great white shark attacks beachgoers on Amity Island, a fictional summer resort town, prompting the local police chief to hunt the shark with the help of a marine biologist and a professional shark hunter. Roy Scheider stars as police chief Martin Brody, Richard Dreyfuss as oceanographer Matt Hooper, Robert Shaw as shark hunter Quint, Murray Hamilton as the mayor of Amity Island, and Lorraine Gary as Brody's wife, Ellen. The screenplay is credited to both 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, Massachusetts, the film had a troubled production, going over budget and past schedule. As the art department's mechanical sharks suffered many malfunctions, Spielberg decided to mostly suggest the animal's presence, using representative props and an ominous, minimalistic theme created by composer John Williams to indicate the shark's impending appearances. Spielberg and others have compared this suggestive approach to that of classic thriller director Alfred Hitchcock. Universal Pictures gave the film what was then an exceptionally wide release for a major studio picture, over 450 screens, accompanied by an extensive marketing campaign with a heavy emphasis on television spots and tie-in merchandise.
Actors: Sean Gill (actor), Kenneth Anderson (editor), Ryan Garretson (producer), Ryan Garretson (director), Ryan Garretson (writer), Brett Glass (actor), Robyn Nielsen (producer), Jarrod Zayas (actor), Lawrence Jansen (actor), Carolina Bartczak (actress), Nick Paglino (actor), Carl Maguire (actor), Vladana Ilic (miscellaneous crew), Marjorie LeWit (actress), Matt Cooper (actor),
Genres: Drama, Short, Thriller,Actors: Leslie Anne Dancey (producer), Leslie Anne Dancey (actress), Leslie Anne Dancey (producer), Leslie Anne Dancey (editor), Leslie Anne Dancey (writer), Leslie Anne Dancey (director), Jonathon Dunning (actor),
Plot: Every cop has their day. For Officer Georgina, it's everyday. The toughest cop on the block, Officer Georgina, is in hot pursuit of the culprit who broke into a Liquor Store. As she closes in on the truth some very colorful witnesses and suspects will face hard hitting questions as her city gets one step closer to justice.
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Mike Medavoy (producer), Bob Yari (producer), Teri Hatcher (actress), Josh Hartnett (actor), Samuel L. Jackson (actor), Murray Ord (producer), Dale Dye (actor), Alan Alda (actor), Eugene Clark (actor), Peter Coyote (actor), David Paymer (actor), Harry Lennix (actor), J. Winston Carroll (actor), Wendy Partridge (costume designer), Larry Groupé (composer),
Plot: A young journalist comes to the aid of a homeless man who claims he is a former heavy weight title contender. Seeing a chance to redeem his struggling career, the writer's story of the champ's life raises questions about the past that will threaten all he holds dear.
Keywords: 1950s, 2000s, african-american, alley, american-football, apology, archive-footage, assault, bakersfield-california, barActors: Richard Kiel (actor), Richard Kiel (actor), Michael G. Wilson (actor), Michael G. Wilson (actor), Johnny Traber's Troupe (actor),
Plot: Extra original 1979 footage filmed at the Hippodrome de Longchamp, Route des Tribunes, Bois de Boulogne, Paris, France for the Circus Sequence in the James Bond movie _Moonraker (1979)_ (qv). This is extended footage which was not used in the film as originally intended and features the performance of Johnny Traber's Troupe of Funambulists. The exteriors of the sequence where Jaws falls onto the tent were done as model work at Pinewood Studios.
Keywords: acrobat, acrobatics, behind-the-scenes, carnival, carnival-performer, circus, circus-tent, exotic-locale, exotic-locations, fallActors: Björn Last (miscellaneous crew), Yves Steichen (actor), Yves Steichen (director), Yves Steichen (writer), Yves Steichen (actor), Marc Barnig (actor), Marc Barnig (editor), Pierre Heinen (actor), Frank Hansen (actor), Philippe Manderscheid (actor), Muriel Kugener (actress), Patrick Himmes (actor), Claude Hansen (actor), Vivi Giampaolo (actress), Melvin Hames (actor),
Genres: Action, Short,Actors: Sean Connery (actor), Vic Armstrong (actor), Harry Saltzman (actor), Roger Moore (actor), Soon-Tek Oh (actor), Albert R. Broccoli (actor), Richard Kiel (actor), Timothy Dalton (actor), Pierce Brosnan (actor), George Lazenby (actor), Guy Hamilton (actor), Peter R. Hunt (actor), Clifton James (actor), Carole Bouquet (actress), Martine Beswick (actress),
Genres: Documentary, Short,Actors: Basil Poledouris (composer), Dick Wolf (producer), D.B. Sweeney (actor), Dick Wolf (writer), M. Emmet Walsh (actor), Ron Howard (producer), Henry G. Sanders (actor), Guy Boyd (actor), Randy Quaid (actor), George Dzundza (actor), Charlie Sheen (actor), Brad Pitt (actor), Bill Duke (actor), Pablo Ferro (miscellaneous crew), Peter Werner (director),
Plot: Benjy Taylor is a rookie cop who goes undercover to nab a gang of car thieves led by Ted Varrick. Taylor becomes too involved and starts to enjoy the thrill and lifestyle of the car thieves, and falls in love with Varrick's sister Ann.
Keywords: 1980s, auto-theft, auto-theft-ring, beer, body-landing-on-a-car, brother-sister-relationship, car-chase, chop-shop, christmas, corpseActors: Mel Stuart (director), Timothy Dalton (actor), Richard Kiel (actor), George Lazenby (actor), Desmond Llewelyn (actor), Roger Moore (actor), Christopher Walken (actor), Sean Connery (actor), Maud Adams (actress), Ursula Andress (actress), Mel Stuart (producer), Richard Schickel (writer), Joseph Wiseman (actor), Alison Cannon (miscellaneous crew), Murray Jordan (editor),
Genres: Documentary,Actors: Shin'ichi Chiba (actor), Kôsaku Yamashita (director), Eiji Gô (actor), Tokue Hanazawa (actor), Eitarô Ozawa (actor), Masao Yagi (composer), Kôji Takada (writer), Haruko Wanibuchi (actress), Ikuo Sekimoto (writer), Gorô Tarumi (actor), Tadao Kanda (editor), Kiyohide Ohara (writer), Mihoko Nakagawa (actress), Willy Dosey (actor),
Genres: Action, Crime,Chorus
You say, it's time, to finally peel away
I say, it's not, this glass is here to stay
You say, that's fine, but your dead ends are showing
I say, I'm caught, and just where are we going?
Lever muscles twitching in excitement
2-D smiles frozen in delightment
Chorus
Everyone is happy at the first glance
Empty eyes staring at the hook dance
Everybody shuffles in a weird trance
Everybody's dying for a second chance
Chorus
You say, it's time, you say the Jaws are here
I say, they're not, and let me make this clear
You say, that's fine, you can't escape this building
That day, I died, I think The Office killed me