Jaws (SD)

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During the height of beach season, the Massachusetts resort town of Amity Island is terrorized one summer by surprise attacks from a great white shark. Three unlikely partners team up to hunt down the rogue & destroy it: the new chief of police (Scheider), a young university oceanographer (Dreyfuss), & an old-time fisherman (Shaw). The film shoot was notoriously difficult for Spielberg, who had directed only one feature film before JAWS. The mechanical shark seldom operated correctly, & Spielberg was frequently forced to create the idea of terror without actually showing the shark. The film went on to become the highest-grossing film of all time--surpassing THE GODFATHER & becoming the first film to gross more than one million dollars. Composer John Williams created the score to JAWS, a well-known theme of impending doom. Ron Valerie Taylor were responsible for filming live sharks in Australia; their sequences were later mixed with footage of the mechanical shark.