JAWS may have been a nail-biting thriller on screen, but on the set it was more like a disaster movie – with so many problems that the film crew nick-named it “Flaws”.
While it became cinema’s first summer blockbuster, it was almost sunk by feuding cast members, problems with the mechanical shark and a voracious budget that quickly ran out.
The artificial man-eater slipped to the bottom of the sea, a propeller nearly sliced off an actor’s head and some of the cast got seasick.
Now Ian Shaw, whose father Robert played hard-bitten sailor Quint, has written a play about the making of the 1975 movie. The Shark Is Broken focuses on the bitter rows between warring cast members Robert, Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider.
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