Vinson Cunningham

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230 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 23 Jun

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The New Yorker Radio Hour · From Critics at Large: Steve Spielberg's Blockbusters · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

He's the police chief of a town called Amity.

And the police chief has a problem, which is that there has been a rash of shark attacks right before, right around this time of year, right before the 4th of July.

And to your point, Naomi, about the common good, the first half of the movie is setting up this sort of problem, this commerce versus public safety versus economic advancement, etc.

The mayor's like, no way, man, we're not shutting down.

Chomp.

There's blood in the water.

The police chief, Brody, goes out to sea with a marine biologist played by Richard Dreyfuss, who is, I think, just so good.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Dreyfuss is wearing a Raglan sweatshirt out on the boat.

Beautifully.

Yes.

I just love this gray sweatshirt.

It's so true.

And Robert Shaw plays this briny professional shark hunter named Quint.

And they go out on a boat, the three of them.

and the sort of radical miniaturization of the crew in something like Moby Dick.

It is, for me, it inaugurates this film, Jaws, which had a budget of $9 million and then had almost $500 million in box office.

At the time, it was the highest grossing film ever.

It was the most successful movie that had ever been made.

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