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Jaws (1975)

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It’s shark week! We got broken sharks, decaying sharks, Bruce the shark, horse jockeys getting attacked by real sharks. Regarded by many as the original blockbuster, Jaws made “B movies” films that garnered grade-A respectability and, in the process, established inexperienced, 26 year-old filmmaker Steven Spielberg as a director for the history books.

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Sep 28, 2020

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Jaws (1975)

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