The Original Great White Classic!

Rating: 10/10 (4 October 2006)

From the novel by the late Peter Benchley, 'Jaws' has a deceptively simple plot, that of a Great White Shark(A twenty footer,twenty-five!, that causes a mass panic when said shark goes on a feeding frenzy, the action takes place in the new england coastal resort, the fictitious amity island (Amity means friendship!
Roy Scheider, plays the police chief Brody, the reluctant hero, Brody,a new yorker transferred from the mean street's with his family, The superb actress Lorraine Gary, is ideally cast as Brody's Caring and somewhat frisky wife(You want to fool around?) Brody witnessed's first hand the death of a little boy on a beach by the shark,which in itself is a very memorable sequence, The superb Murrary Hamilton, plays the sly mayor who is eager to have a thriving summer season despite the problem, Brody,and the towns people rally round and try and come up with a solution,to their fishy problem that will certainly cause trouble to their annual tourist season,
Enter Quint a grizzled world war two veteran, who is the master fisherman, with his fair share of scar's and memorable stories (The USS Indianapolis spring's to mind) Richard Dreyfuss, play's the plucky Dr Matt Hooper, from the oceanographer institute who with his bag of trick's set's off with the two men on an adventure that see's the men hunt the deadly shark, and in turn the hunter's become the hunted, Often copied but never parodied and equaled 'Jaws' certainly set a standard for cinema the first film that set off the now traditional summer blockbuster, It also used unorthodox cinematography,(Hand-held) Which of course is now commonplace these days, It's also essential to see this film, in it's true 2.35:1 widescreen aspect ratio, The TV pan and scan version is brutal,