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Lois Beckett in Los Angeles

Steven Spielberg reflects on Jaws at 50: ‘I thought my career was over’

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Steven Spielberg speaks to the press at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles this week. Photograph: Allison Dinner/EPA

Before Jaws became a cinematic classic, and the very first American “summer blockbuster”, director Steven Spielberg thought the 1975 film would be the last one he would be allowed to make.

Spielberg, who was just 26, had decided to shoot his second film, a thriller about a killer shark, on location on the east coast island of Martha’s Vineyard.

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