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
Jaws: 25Th Anniversary movie trailer - starring Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Murray Hamilton, Robert Shaw, Lorraine Gary, Jeffrey Kramer. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Genre: Horror Rating: PG-13
In Bermuda, Ellen Brody becomes convinced that the shark that killed her son is now after her. This lame fourth installment bites!
The Deep movie trailer - starring Nick Nolte, Jacqueline Bisset, Louis Gossett Jr., Eli Wallach, Robert Shaw. Directed by Peter Yates. Genre: Action-Adventure Rating: PG
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.
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Michael Caine stars as a news writer who travels to the Caribbean with his twelve-year-old son to investigate the disappearance of boats, and finds himself battling modern-day pirates.
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.
This lavish, suspense-filled film was made from Peter 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.
Michael Caine stars as an investigative writer for a news magazine who doggedly tracks down one of the most baffling mysteries of modern times the disappearance of pleasure craft and passengers from one area of the Caribbean. It is in this area of the sea that descendants of seventeenth-century buccaneers, trapped in a time warp, persist in their marauding ways. Caine is captured by these pirates who need his services to help improve their degenerated gene pool. Caine's twelve-year-old son is converted to the pirates heathen ways and turns against his father.
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