Jaws (1975)
Look at the very top of this poster: "When in Southern California visit the Universal Studios Tour." Within a year of Jaws opening, the studio had added the shark to that tour, and a mechanical great white has been lunging at tram passengers ever since. That is how big Jaws was. Universal opened it across hundreds of American cinemas at once and sold it on prime-time television, a strategy nobody had tried on that scale, and the summer blockbuster was born. Hollywood has been chasing June releases ever since.
This is the domestic US One Sheet from the 1975 release, issued by National Screen Service and numbered 75/155, with the PG rating box and the warning that the film "may be too intense for younger children". Roger Kastel's painting of the shark rising towards the swimmer began on the Bantam paperback of Peter Benchley's novel before becoming one of the most recognised images in cinema. Linen-backed.
- Year: 1975
- Nationality: United States
- Condition: Linen-backed
- Type: Original US One Sheet (domestic, PG rating box)
- Size: 27 x 41 inches
- Product Code: T7421
