REAL JAWS BOAT TO GO ON SALE
A fishing boat owned by the shark hunter who inspired the JAWS movies is to be sold at auction.
New Yorker Frank Mundus, credited as the real Captain Quint from Peter Benchley’s Jaws novel, on which Steven Spielberg’s movies were based - died in September (08) at the age of 82.
His 40 foot wooden boat, Cricket II, will go on sale online in February (08), with a starting price of $25,000 (£16,700). (IG/PYN/ZN) * DID HITLER’S GHOST CAUSE TANK TROUBLE ON VALKYRIE SET? Moviemaker BRYAN SINGER feared the ghost of ADOLF HITLER had taken over his VALKYRIE set when a runaway tank threatened to destroy camera equipment.
The director was shooting scenes with Tom Cruise in Cougar Buttes in California when a stuntman had to climb aboard an out-of-control tank and stop it crashing through thousands of dollars worth of sound and camera equipment.
And Singer still thinks Hitler was behind the controls of the armoured vehicle.
He says, "We had one tank that malfunctioned and it started rolling on it’s own. It started rolling towards the camera equipment and nothing was stopping it because it’s a tank and it’s meant to roll over camera crews and other things in it’s way.
"A very brave guy crawled in it and worked the brake system and got it to stop. Maybe the ghost of Hitler was in there!" In the new film, Cruise plays a real-life German officer who led an assassination attempt on Hitler.
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