Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 he wades in the water. In 1974, writer Peter Benchley published "Jaws", a novel about a rogue great white shark that terrorizes the fictional coastal community of Amity Island. Chief of police Martin Brody, biologist Matt Hooper, and fisherman Quint hunt the shark after it kills four people. The novel was adapted as the film "Jaws" by Steven Spielberg in 1975. Spielberg's film makes reference to the events of 1916: Brody (Roy Scheider) and Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) urge Amity's Mayor Vaughn (Murray Hamilton) to close the beaches on the Fourth of July after the deaths of two swimmers and a
Jaws (franchise) cast and crew from the film. It was narrated by the late Roy Scheider and dedicated to the late Peter Benchley. The documentary was produced by "Jaws" fans over a seven-year period, building on Laurent Bouzereau's 1995 documentary, "The Making of Jaws", that has been included on some laserdisc and DVD releases. Throughout other documentaries over the years, such as Bouzereau's and the BBC's 1997 documentary "In the Teeth of Jaws", actor Richard Dreyfuss has recounted tales about the troubled production of "Jaws" and the quote “The shark is NOT working” which Dreyfuss would hear constantly from members of the