Universal Pictures
Directed by Steven Spielberg
My rating: 4 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Universal)
Small town sheriff Roy Scheider has his Fourth of July ruined when a shark shows up and starts picking off tourists. The mother of one of the victims offers a reward and the island is overrun with bounty hunters. They soon catch the wrong one, but only Scheider and shark expert Richard Dreyfuss believe it. When another victim turns up, they have no choice but to pay local crony Robert Shaw to catch the real one. The three of them embark on an epic duel with the monster shark in the final third of the film. The classic film that either saved Hollywood, or ruined it, depending on your point of view: it set the blueprint for every summer blockbuster that followed for the next 40 years, and counting. John Williams' score is one of the all-time best.
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