Amity police chief Brody discovers that there's more than one fish in the sea--the great white shark he destroyed in the first film has a hungry mate ready to wreak havoc on the community. This action-packed sequel features the welcome return of Roy Scheider and Lorraine Gary reprising their roles from the original blockbuster that did for ocean beaches what PSYCHO did for showers.

In this sequel to the 1975 blockbuster, police chief Martin Brody is once again concerned with a series of shark attacks. After four years of relative calm in the resort town of Amity, a great white shark is terrorizing teenagers, including his own son.

Budget estimate: $20 million.

Released in USA June 1978.

Shot on location in Okaloosa County, Florida, in Technicolor.

It was reported in Variety in June 1978 that this sequel was $10 million over budget due to production delays and dollar inflation. Director Jeannot Szwarc replaced John Hancock, who was originally set to do the film.

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Single Side - Dual Layer
Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
Letterbox - 2.35
Audio:
Dolby Digital Mono 2.0 - English
Dolby Digital Mono 2.0 - French
Additional Release Material:
Making Of
Deleted Scenes
Bonus Footage: A Look at the Musical Score with John Williams
Text/Photo Galleries:
Production Art
Production Notes
Biographies: Cast & Crew
Storyboards

Roy Scheider: American actor, JAWS, ALL THAT JAZZ, THE FRENCH CONNECTION
Lorraine Gary: American Film and Television Supporting Actress
Murray Hamilton: American Character Actor
Joseph Mascolo: American Supporting Actor
Jeffrey Kramer: American Supporting Actor
Collin Wilcox: Supporting Actress
Ann Dusenberry: Supporting Actress
Mark Gruner: 
Barry Coe: American Actor
Susan French: 
Gary Springer: 
Donna Wilkes: Actress, ANGEL (1984)
Gary Dubin: 
John Dukakis: 
G. Thomas Dunlop: 
David Elliott: American Actor
Marc Gilpin: 
Keith Gordon: American actor/director, BACK TO SCHOOL/WAKING THE DEAD
Cindy Grover: 
Ben Marley: Actor
Martha Swatek: 
Billy Van Zandt: 
Gigi Vorgan: 
Jerry Baxter: 
Jean Ann Coulter: 

Jeannot Szwarc: French Director

Richard D. Zanuck: Producer
David Brown: Producer, worked with Richard Zanuck, began in '73, JAWS

Carl Gottlieb: Writer/Director/Actor
Michael Butler: 

John Williams: American film composer, STAR WARS (1977)

Phil Abramson: Set Decorator

Neil Travis: Editor, T3 (2003)
Steve Potter: 
Arthur Schmidt: Editor, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEA
Freeman Davies: Editor
Robert Hernandez: 
Sherrie Sanet Jacobson: 
Joe Alves: Production Designer/Director

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