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Plot Summary:
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When a massive killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Long Island, it's up to the local police chief, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down. |
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Cast: (First 20, for the rest click 'Show All Cast & Crew' below.)
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Miscellaneous Companies:
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- Cinematique
- cosmetics
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- Universal Title
- titles and opticals
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Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)
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- Aquinnah, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA [exteriors]
- Coast, South Australia, Australia
- Dangerous Reef, South Australia, Australia
- Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA
- Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA
- Joseph Sylva State Beach, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA
- Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA
- Menemsha, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA
- Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA
- Southern Ocean, South Australia, Australia
- Underwater, Santa Catalina Island, Channel Islands, California, USA
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Tech Info:
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- Budget:
- $7,000,000
- Revenue:
- $470,653,000
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Color (Technicolor)
- Laboratory:
- Technicolor
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- Aspect Ratio:
- 2.35 : 1
- Cinematographic Process:
- Panavision
- Film Negative Format:
- 35 mm
- Printed Film Format:
- 35 mm / 70 mm
- Shooting Dates:
- 02 May 1974 - 15 Sep 1974 (location shooting)
Oct 1974 - Dec 1974 (additional photography)- Production Dates:
- Feb 1974 - Apr 1975
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Quotes:
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Hooper: This was no boating accident!
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Hooper: That's a twenty footer!
Quint: Twenty-five. Three tons of him.
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Quint: You've got city boy hands, Hooper. You been countin' money all your life.
Hooper: I don't need this working-class-hero crap.
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Hooper: I'm not going to waste my time arguing with a man who's lining up to be a hot lunch.
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Brody: I can do anything, I'm the chief of police.
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Trivia:
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- Steven Spielberg originally wanted Joe Spinell and Frank Pesce to be the two guys on the dock fishing for the shark at night (Pesce as the guy who falls in the water and Spinell shouting to him). Unfortunately, Pesce couldn't make it to Martha's Vineyard.
- In the actual Jersey Beach shark attacks of 1916 (which Hooper mentions in the film), the sequence of attacks is similar to that of the film: a swimmer in the surf; a dog; and a boy and the leg of a man in a tidal slough.
- Author Peter Benchley was thrown off the set after objecting to the climax.
- The original scene with Alex Kintner's death was so scary that it was cut to ensure a PG rating. The scene called for a doll of Alex to be floating among the bathers, then the shark would jump out of the water.
- When the shark was built, it was never water tested therefore when it was put in the water at Martha's Vineyard, it sank straight to the ocean floor. It took a team of divers to retrieve it.
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