Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 39. Chapters: Jaws, Jaws 2, Jaws 3-D, Jaws: The Revenge, Shark Tale, Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus, Open Water, Open Water 2: Adrift, Mega Shark Versus Crocosaurus, Dinoshark, Deep Blue Sea, Tintorera, Shark in Venice, Sharkwater, Red Water, Megalodon, The Shark Is Still Working, Monster Shark, Cruel Jaws, Great White, Shark Night 3D, Shark!, 12 Days of Terror, Shark Attack, Deep Blood, Tiger Shark, Shores of Silence: Whale Sharks in India, Mako: The Jaws of Death. Excerpt: Jaws is a 1975 American horror-thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name. The police chief of Amity Island, a fictional summer resort town, tries to protect beachgoers from a giant man-eating great white shark by closing the beach, only to be overruled by the town council, which wants the beach to remain open to draw a profit from tourists during the summer season. After several attacks, the police chief enlists the help of a marine biologist and a professional shark hunter. Roy Scheider stars as police chief Martin Brody, Richard Dreyfuss as oceanographer Matt Hooper, Robert Shaw as shark hunter Quint, Murray Hamilton as the Mayor of Amity Island, and Lorraine Gary as Brody's wife, Ellen. Jaws is regarded as a watershed film in motion picture history, the father of the summer blockbuster film and one of the first "high concept" films. Because of the film's success in advance screenings, studio executives decided to distribute it in a much wider release than ever before. The Omen followed suit in the summer of 1976 and then Star Wars one year later in 1977, cementing the notion for movie studios to distribute their big-release action and adventure pictures (commonly referred to as tentpole pictures) during the summer. Widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all...