Season 1: Episode 16 - BOOK TO SCREEN: Jaws (1975)

After Peter Benchley became interested in shark attacks and after he learned about the exploits of shark hunter, Frank Mundus in 1965.  In 1971, Doubleday commissioned Benchley to write a novel.  The hardback would stay on the best seller list for over 44 weeks in 1974.

 

Richard D Zanuk and David Brown would buy the rights before the book was published and hired Steven Spielberg to direct.  The film became box office gold in 1975 becoming one of the highest grossing films of all times.  It would win three Academy Awards for Best Film Editing, Best Original Film Score and Best Sound.

 

We are joined by special guest co-host John Hunt, author of Dollhouse and The Tracker, out now.  

 

Opening Credits (.21); Introduction (4.06); Monthly Topic (4.38); Forming the Plot (9.03); Prologue (14.46); Page to Page (15.29); Commercial Break (56.33); Interview with John Hunt (57.23); Commercial Break (1:13.44); Film Trailer (1:14.08); Lights, Camera, Action (1:17.40); Epilogue (1:52.57) End Credits (2:04.03); Closing Credits (2:05.10)

 

Opening Credits – Theme from Jaws by John Williams available on the Album Jaws – Special Edition Original Soundtrack.

 

Closing Credits – Shark in the Water by VV Brown available on the album Traveling Like the Light.

 

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