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: The Revenge mayor. Mitchell Anderson appeared as Ellen's youngest son, Sean. Lynn Whitfield played Louisa, and stunt performer Diane Hetfield was the victim of the banana boat attack. The score was composed and conducted by Michael Small, who had previously provided music for "Klute", "Marathon Man" (both of which featured "Jaws" star Roy Scheider) and "The Parallax View". John Williams' original shark motif is integrated into the score, although Small removed the Orca theme. Soundtrack.net says that "Small's score is generally tense, and he comes up with a few new themes of his own." The film also contained the songs "Nail it