Jaws (film) but he manages to escape to the seabed. The shark then attacks the boat directly and devours Quint. Trapped on the sinking vessel, Brody stuffs a pressurized scuba tank into the shark's mouth, and, climbing the crow's nest, shoots the tank with a rifle. The resulting explosion obliterates the shark. Hooper surfaces, and he and Brody paddle back to Amity Island clinging to the remaining barrels. Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown, producers at Universal Pictures, independently heard about Peter Benchley's novel "Jaws". Brown came across it in the literature section of lifestyle magazine "Cosmopolitan", then edited by his wife,
Jaws (franchise) Brody's environmentalist concerns are effectively ridiculed as his colleague is eaten by the enraged fish; he joins the hunt for it and the shark in turn hunts him down." Many films based on man-eating animals (usually aquatic) were released throughout the 1970s and the 1980s such as: "Grizzly", "", "Day of the Animals", "Orca" (also known as "Orca: The Killer Whale"), "Eaten Alive", "The Pack", "", "Baracuda", "Nightwing", "Up from the Depths", "Humanoids from the Deep" (also known as "Monster"), "Alligator", "Blood Beach", "Creature", the Italian-American "Tentacles", the Mexican "Tintorera" (also known as "Tintorera: Killer Shark"), the Italian "Island of