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New JAWS Shirt on Threadless

Jake — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 05:31:02 +0000

New JAWS Shirt Design on Threadless.com - Quint's Fish Paste

Quint Caricature

testuser — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:51:14 +0000

I found a nice caricature of Quint as he sat in front of the Amity town council. Evidently it was published in the April 2008 issue of Paracinema magazine. The artist of the sketch is Dan Springer.

Shark Man of Montauk

testuser — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:24:51 +0000

It's been a couple weeks since Frank Mundus (an inspiration for Quint) has passed away, but I found an interesting retrospective article about him and his book, Captain Frank Mundus, Shark Man: Master Hunter of the Deep.

The Visual Language of JAWS – JAWS Shot by Shot

Monk Monkton — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:56:46 +0000

Jaws. The defining film in my life. The first film I remember seeing as a child remains my favorite film of all time.

JAWS Lost Interviews from the 1970s

testuser — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:38:15 +0000

New England Our Way was a fascinating look some at the key people involved with JAWS before it was released. It contains interviews with the "big three" of Scheider, Dreyfuss and Shaw, Steven Spielberg, and Martha's Vineyard local Craig Kingsbury, who played Ben Gardner.

A Much Gorier Death for Quint [YouTube]

Jake — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:12:45 +0000

More editing fun from YouTube, this clip features and extended, gorier, version of Quint's death.

Frank Mundus, Inspiration for Quint, has died

Jake — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:13:52 +0000

Frank Mundus, the legendary Long Island shark hunter widely credited as the inspiration for the crotchety skipper in "Jaws," has died in Hawaii. He was 82.

JAWS Characters: Quint (Robert Shaw)

Jake — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 20:55:48 +0000

Robert Shaw (1927-1978) played Amity’s most colorful character, the Ahab-like Quint, who offers to kill the shark. Quint has a reason to hate sharks; he was a survivor of a harrowing incident during World War II, which he reveals in …