Director... Steven Spielberg

Starring... Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Jeffrey Kramer, Susan Backline, Carl Gottlieb...

PLOT

A Spielberg Classic... The New England beachfront town of Amity is preparing for a big influx of party animals for the biggest long weekend of the summer... However, there's a mean old shark hanging around town too, and he likes munchin' on anybody that dips their feet into the water... The Chief of Police wants to close the beach but runs into opposition from the Mayor and local business people... They figure that the tourists will leave and take their money with them... So they offer up a reward to anyone that can bring in the offending shark...

After a young kid is plucked right off the beach in broad daylight, the Police Chief calls in a shark expert... The expert arrives just as a small shark is brought in... After examining the sharks stomach contents, he declares that this is not the right beast... He then performs an autopsy on a previous victim and declares that the shark they are looking for is a Great White and it probably runs 20 feet long or better...

Now into the mix comes Quint who is a very strange dude... He offers to capture the shark for a bundle of cash... So Quint, the expert and the Police Chief head out to sea...

After a bit of cruising, they finally find the monster... They harpoon the sucker a few times but it's much to strong for them to hold onto... The shark gets a little pissed off at being harpooned so he decides to eat half the boat and swallows Quint as desert... The Chief finally blows up the beast and our two remaining heros float back to shore on some debris...

There are some truly frightening scenes in this film right from the start... A woman swimming late at night is grabbed and dragged at about 30 miles an hour before being pulled under... And the shark eating the boat is a pretty unforgetable experience...

For months and even years after the release of this movie, some people wold not go near the water... Every single shark attack in the World became a major news event... And the previously unknown Great White shark became a celebrity... Magazine articles, cartoons and even songs were written about this giant fish...

The shark was actually a giant robotic creation that looked very real...

Jaws won three Oscars and spawned several sequels, none of which came close to the thrill of the original...