Somehow, five decades have gone by since Steven Spielberg’s Jaws chewed up the big screen. Yes, it is the shark thriller’s 50th birthday (the movie premiered on June 20, 1975), which means it’s time to celebrate. The movie, which was adapted from Peter Benchley’s novel, took style notes from Hitchcock and the grindhouse movies of the era and ended up becoming the first ever summer blockbuster.
Jaws isn’t a complicated movie: It tells the story of a vengeful shark and the tourist beach town of Amity Island it decided to terrorize.
The movie starred Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw as police chief Martin Brody, oceanographer Matt Hooper and grizzled shark hunter Quint. This core trio of men became the only thing standing between the dastardly great white and the unsuspecting folks on the beach. Jaws chomped its way into the pop culture lexicon thanks to John Williams’ iconic theme music and Spielberg’s less-is-more
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