Jaws
Director: Steven Spielberg
Genre: Thriller, Psychological thriller, Horror, Natural horror films, New Hollywood, Monster movie, Action, Action/Adventure
Year: 1975
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Susan Backlinie, Jonathan Filley, Carl Gottlieb, Ted Grossman, Jeffrey Kramer, Jeffrey Voorhees, Craig Kingsbury, Jay Mello, Lee Fierro, Chris Rebello, Steven Spielberg
Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film, directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name. It is regarded as a watershed film in motion picture history, the father of the summer blockbuster. In the story, the police chief of Amity Island, a fictional summer resort town, tries to protect beachgoers from a giant man-eating great white shark by closing the beach, only to be overruled by the town council, which wants the beach to remain open to draw revenue from tourists during the summer season. After several attacks, the police chief enlists the help of a marine biologist and a professional shark hunter. Roy Scheider stars as police chief Martin Brody, Richard Dreyfuss as oceanographer Matt Hooper, Robert Shaw as shark hunter Quint, Murray Hamilton as the mayor of Amity Island, and Lorraine Gary as Brody's wife, Ellen. The screenplay is credited to both Benchley, who delivered the first draft, and actor-writer Carl Gottlieb, who rewrote the script during principal photography.
The film was shot on location on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, and had a troubled production, going over budget and past schedule. As the art department's mechanical sharks
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