Jaws (film) Jaws (film) Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's 1974 novel of the same name. In it, a giant man-eating great white shark attacks beachgoers on Amity Island, a fictional New England summer resort town, prompting police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) to hunt it with the help of a marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a professional shark hunter (Robert Shaw). Murray Hamilton plays the mayor, and Lorraine Gary portrays Brody's wife. The screenplay is credited to Benchley, who wrote the first drafts, and actor-writer Carl Gottlieb, who rewrote the script
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