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The rub of the play is this: Rather than mess with real shark-wrangling, the crew of Jaws built a mechanical ... British thespian who signed on for Captain Quint. But Bruce kept malfunctioning ...

the boat of suddenly-deceased captain Quint (played by Robert Shaw), into an oxygen tank stuck in the flesh-festooned maw of Jaws, thus blowing up the most famous shark in history. But apparently ...