Is it possible that the same deadly 24-foot shark of the screen has found its menacing way to Southern California and the back lot of Universal Studios? This disturbing question begins to materialize the moment the visitors’ tram approaches what appears to be the town of Amity, its bill...
“To watch [actor] Robert Shaw’s double get eaten a few times was great too,” added Blair, who also was on hand when the shark – initially built in California and completed on the Island by veteran Hollywood mechanical effects man Robert Mattey – had its screen test in Edgartown wate...
The film led to some American public hysteria: a beach in Southern California was cleared by lifeguards due to sharks in the water, but they turned out to be dolphins; and in Florida, an immature pygmy sperm whale that beached itself was beaten to death by bystanders who mistook it for a...
this was the one with all the epic battles—Aragorn’s contest of wills with a bunch of ancient ghosts, Theoden’s last stand at the fields of Pelenor, Gollum vs. a hobbit’s bloody finger. Howard Shore’s sweeping score drove us all home, one last ride with the heroes of the Fello...