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Length: 03:22
Posted: 7/23/2009

Based on Peter Benchley's best-selling novel inspired by the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916. The police chief of Amity Island, a summer resort town, tries to protect beachgoers from a great white shark by closing the beach, only to be overruled by the town council, which wants the beach to remain open to draw a profit from tourists. After several attacks, the police chief enlists the help of a marine biologist and a professional shark hunter. Roy Scheider stars as police chief Martin Brody, Richard Dreyfuss as marine biologist Matt Hooper, Robert Shaw as shark hunter Quint, Lorraine Gary as Brody's wife Ellen and Murray Hamilton as Mayor Vaughn. watch

VIDEO: 'Jaws' Author Dies At 65

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'Jaws' Author Dies At 65
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Posted: 7/1/2009

Author Peter Benchley died from a chronic lung disease in his New Jersey home on Feb. 10. He is most noted for his novel, "Jaws," which was made into a blockbuster movie. He was 65. watch

VIDEO: 12 Days of Terror

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Posted: 3/7/2009

12 Days of Terror (2004) -- For 12 days in July, 1916, a shark patrolled the waterways of northern New Jersey. This docudrama is based on Richard Fernicola's account of those days. Other accounts of those 12 days led Peter Benchley to write _Jaws_. watch

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Deep-sea divers vie with a Haitian drug dealer to recover a trunkload of sunken morphine. Based on Peter Benchley's best-selling novel.
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Posted: 12/24/2008
National Geographic embarks on a voyage of breakthrough discoveries that will forever alter our view of the infamous creature once labeled "the perfect killing machine." Join the ultimate great white expedition, featuring Jaws creator Peter Benchley and famed underwater photographer David Doubilet. Witness amazing great white shark behavior, including never-before-seen footage of explosive, air-borne "breaching" attacks. Experience the breathless fear of a diver trapped on the sea bottom for over four hours by a hungry great white.
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Length: 55:00
Posted: 10/12/2008
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This lavish, suspense-filled film was made from Peter (Jaws) Benchley's best-selling novel. Gail Berke (Jacqueline Bisset) and David Sanders (Nick Nolte) are on a romantic holiday in Bermuda when they come upon the sunken wreck of a WWII freighter. Near it, they find an ampule of morphine, one of tens of thousands still aboard the wrecked ship. Their discovery leads them to a Haitian drug dealer, Cloche (Louis Gossett), and an old treasure hunter, Romer Treece (Robert Shaw). With Cloche in pursuit, Gail, David and Treece try to recover the sunken treasure.
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Length: 02:04:34
Posted: 1/19/2009
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Year Title Description
1994 Mrs. Parker And The Vicious Circle Movie, Actor - Frank Crowninshield
1987 Jaws Movie, Source
1983 Jaws 3-D Movie, Source
1980 The Island Movie, Writer
1980 The Island Movie, Source

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NOW IT'S SAFE TO GO BACK IN THE WATER

Jaws author Peter Benchley died Saturday at the age of 65. Idiopathic fibrosis, a condition marked by the progressive and ultimately fatal scarring of the lungs, did in the writer, on whose novel the best killer-shark movie ever was based. read more

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