Jaws, a Monstrous Success

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Jaws, a Monstrous Success

6.8 | en | Documentary

In the summer of 1975, the young director Steven Spielberg set new standards for cinema worldwide with an oversized shark bite, a plastic shark fin and an unmistakable two-note main theme composed by John Williams. With the horror from the deep, a man-eating, gigantic great white shark, the film of the same name became a similarly traumatic reference as Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho": it triggered lasting primal fears across generations. On the beaches of the world, there was clearly a "before" and an "after". Steven Spielberg, who was only 28 at the time, not only set new standards for the thriller genre, but also hid his biting criticism of US capitalism in the 1970s behind it.

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6.8 | en | Documentary

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Cast

Lorraine Gary , Joe Alves , Carl Gottlieb

Director

Antoine Coursat

Producted By

ARTE , RTBF

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Cast

Lorraine Gary

as Self

[2024] Jaws, a Monstrous Success [2022] Jaws [2010] Jaws: The Inside Story [2009] The Shark Is Still Working [1997] In the Teeth of Jaws [1995] The Making of 'Jaws' [1987] Jaws: The Revenge [1987] The Making of Jaws The Revenge [1979] 1941

Joe Alves

as Self - set designer

[2025] Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story [2025] The Farmer and the Shark [2024] Sharksploitation [2024] Jaws, a Monstrous Success [2009] The Shark Is Still Working [2003] Return to 'Escape from New York' [2001] The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' [1995] The Making of 'Jaws' [1] Not Your Average Joe

Carl Gottlieb

as Self - screenwriter

[2025] Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story [2024] Sharksploitation [2024] Jaws, a Monstrous Success [2022] Jaws [2013] Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck [2009] The Shark Is Still Working [2003] Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood [2001] The Making of Jaws 2 [1995] The Making of 'Jaws'