Shawn Van Horn has been a Senior Features Writer for Collider since 2022 with a focus on horror, and 90s TV and movies.
The Big Picture Steven Spielberg changed cinema forever with Jaws in 1975, a movie that started our love affair with the summer blockbuster. From its characters, the slow burn story, the shark that barely worked, and especially John Williams' thrilling score, everything about Jaws hits. What sometimes gets overlooked, due to all of those iconic factors, is the film's actual setting.
Release Date June 20, 1975 Director Steven Spielberg Cast Roy Scheider , Robert Shaw , Richard Dreyfuss , Lorraine Gary , Murray Hamilton , Carl Gottlieb , Jeffrey Kramer Runtime 124 Minutes Main Genre Thriller Writers Peter Benchley , Carl Gottlieb Production Company Zanuck/Brown Company, Universal Pictures 'Jaws' Used Many Real-Life Locations Jaws was not filmed on a big Hollywood set. No, Amity Island might not be a real place, but the place that represents it most certainly is.
'Jaws' Most Memorable Moments Were Filmed on Martha's Vineyard Close One of Jaws' more pivotal scenes involves Chief Brody with Amity Island's mayor, Larry Vaughn , on a ferry. Brody pleads for the mayor to shut down the beaches, but the mayor insists that everything is safe. That ferry wasn't created for plot purposes. It's a real ferry in Martha's Vineyard that still runs to this day, going from Edgartown to Chappaquiddick.
Which 'Jaws' Scenes Were Filmed in the Atlantic Ocean? Finally, there are those water scenes. One, where it feels safe because it's so close to land, is the lagoon scene where the shark comes in under the bridge and topples over one boat, killing the man inside, and comes close to catching several kids in another boat, including Brody's young son, Michael. That bridge, called the American Legion Memorial Bridge, still exists almost fifty years later.
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