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©2012
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1 videodisc (2 hr., 4 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1975
Main titles -- Chrissie's last swim -- A feast for the crabs -- If you yell shark -- Blood on the beach -- The town meeting -- The shark & Sunday dinner -- The expert -- The wrong shark -- The dead of night -- July 4th -- Predator in the pond -- The shark hunters -- Face-to-face -- Scars -- The chase -- Hooper goes in -- Quint's last stand -- Brody & the beast -- End titles
Intense shark attacks including some bloody images, language, brief partial nudity/sexual references and drug use
Based on the novel "Jaws" by Peter Benchley
"When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police ... a young marine biologist ... and a grizzled shark hunter ... embark on a desperate quest to destroy the beast before it strikes again"--
"Digitally remastered and fully restored from high resolution 35mm original film elements"--Container
"© 2012 Universal Studios"--Disc label
Wide screen (2.35:1)
Music, John Williams ; film editor, Verna Fields ; director of photography, Bill Butler
Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Carl Gottlieb, Jeffrey C. Kramer, Susan Backlinie
MPAA rating: PG
DVD, NTSC, region 1, dual layer, anamorphic widescreen; Dolby digital 5.1, Dolby digital 2.0 mono
In English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish, with optional subtitles in French or Spanish; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Golden Globe Awards, 1976: Best Original Score, Motion Picture (John Williams)
Academy Awards, 1976: Best Film Editing (Fields); Best Music, Original Dramatic Score (Williams); Best Sound (Robert L. Hoyt, Roger Heman Jr., Earl Madery, and John R. Carter)
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, 1976: Outstanding Film of 1975
National Film Preservation Board, 2001: Inducted into the National Film Registry
Subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH) in English