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: The Revenge The underwater chase scene between Mike and the shark in "Revenge" was lifted from an early screenplay draft of "Jaws 3-D". Lorraine Gary portrayed Ellen Brody in the first two films. In a press release, Gary says "Jaws: The Revenge"' is "also about relationships which ... makes it much more like the first "Jaws"." This was Gary's first film since appearing in Spielberg's "1941" eight years earlier, as well as her final film role. The press release proposes that the character "had much more depth and texture than either of the other films was able to explore. The promise of