The movie was adapted from the novel by Peter Benchley, starred Robert Shaw and was set in the sea... so it came with JAWS-sized expectations of a runaway blockbuster.
Presumably that expectation, and the opening scene, propelled it to becoming the 8th higest grossing movie in the States that year. Having seen the movie far more recently, I can report that lightning did not strike the ocean twice and this was - in fact - no Jaws.
Maybe so but JAWS didn't have the sight of Jackie Bisset in underwater mode, a true beauty of the deep. ( ahem )
ReplyDeleteThe art is somewhat florid and misleading as the creature is just a conger eel and not the giant sea serpent as drawn here. The inbox also promises a Tarzan style grapple which never occurs in the movie.