Roy Scheider – Around the World in 80s Movies Podcast

Still of the Night (1982) | Robert Benton

January 8, 2023 qwipster Comment is Closed

Roy Scheider plays a newly divorced New York psychiatrist named Sam Rice, who discovers that George Bynum (Josef Sommer), one of his prominent patients, has been murdered. Bynum was the curator of antiquities for Crispin’s, a high-scale auction house, who engaged in a sexual affair with Brooke Reynolds (Meryl Streep), a younger woman who worked […]

Jaws 2 (1978) | Jeannot Szwarc

June 5, 2020June 4, 2020 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Jaws 2 is set four years after Jaws, in the same island community of Amity. Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) still patrols, though now shaken from his ordeal with the shark. Mayor Vaughn (Murray Hamilton) is catering to a land developer on the construction of new waterfront condominiums that will be very lucrative for a town still struggling […]

Jaws (1975) | Steven Spielberg

May 29, 2020 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Roy Scheider stars as police chief Martin Brody of Amity, a Long Island resort community just about to enjoy its most popular season of the year, in the sun and fun of the 4th of July. All is not idyllic on this day, however. A teenage girl has been found washed up on the beach, […]