June 20, 1975 –
Steven Spielberg’s thriller, Jaws, premiered on this date. Beach vacations were never the same again.
During the scene when Quint, Hooper, and Brody are loading up the Orca, a small gray shack with a red door can be seen to the left of Quint’s place. It belonged to an actual resident who at first was ticked off with the production because mist from the spray paint used on Quint’s facade wound up floating onto his boats. When he discovered what was really going on, and how naive the crew was about fishing and boating, he offered to assist them in their production. His equipment and expertise became so useful to them that without him the film might never have been completed. He even became the role model that Robert Shaw chose to use for his gruff fisherman character. And though he was well paid for his services, Lynn Murphy never received credit, on or off screen, for the essential part he played in the making of a classic.
The Haus of Dcaligari 