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,
Shark Kill the picture quality of the film's DVD release. Shark Kill Shark Kill is a 1976 made-for-television adventure film directed by William A. Graham. The film was one of the first films released to capitalize on the success of the 1975 film "Jaws"; both films follow the premise of men hunting a bloodthirsty great white shark. The film was first broadcast on NBC on May 20, 1976, and was released on DVD on January 17, 2007. The film has a rating of 4.6/10 on IMDb. Filmmaker and reviewer James Rolfe placed "Shark Kill" at the number thirty-seven spot on his list