Fifty years ago, Steven Spielberg’s "Jaws" hit theaters, revolutionizing Hollywood and becoming the highest-grossing film of its era. Based on Peter Benchley’s bestselling novel, the film's production faced significant challenges while filming on location at Martha’s Vineyard in 1974. Actor Richard Dreyfuss returns to the island and reflects on the turbulent shoot in a conversation with Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz. Mankiewicz also sits down with actress Lorraine Gary and screenwriter Carl Gottlieb to discuss working alongside Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, and Spielberg, then an ambitious young director helming his first major studio feature.
Jaws is a 1975 American thriller directed by Steven Spielberg, adapted from Peter Benchley's 1974 novel. The film stars Roy Scheider as Police Chief Martin Brody, who teams up with a marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a shark hunter (Robert Shaw) to track down a great white shark terrorizing a New England beach town. Murray Hamilto...
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