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
Land Shark (Saturday Night Live) Land Shark (Saturday Night Live) The Land Shark (also land shark, landshark, LandShark) was a recurring character from the sketch comedy television series "Saturday Night Live". The character first appeared in the fall of 1975 as a response to the release of the film "Jaws", and the subsequent hysteria over purported shark sightings. It was one of the most popular and imitated sketches of "SNL"'s first season. The Land Shark first appeared in a sketch entitled "Jaws II" on the Candice Bergen-hosted episode (season 1 episode 4), which originally aired on November 8, 1975. As narrated by Don Pardo (the