Richard Dreyfuss JAWS #3 (that's Ben Gardners boat!)

Jaws is a 1975 thriller/horror film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's best-selling novel that was inspired by the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916. The police chief of Amity Island, a fictional summer resort town, tries to protect beachgoers from a 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. 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 marine biologist Matt Hooper, Robert Shaw as shark hunter Quint, Lorraine Gary as Brody's wife Ellen and Murray Hamilton as Mayor Vaughn.

Jaws is regarded as a watershed film in motion picture history, the father of the summer blockbuster movie and one of the first "high concept" films.[2][3] Due to 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. The film was followed by three sequels, none with the participation of Spielberg or Benchley. Jaws 2 (1978), Jaws 3-D (1983) and Jaws: The Revenge (1987). A video game entitled Jaws Unleashed was later made in 2005.

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[Waqorat]

"Uh, I think that I am familiar with the fact that you are going to ignore this particular problem until it swims up and bites you in the ass."

Greatest quote in movie history...!

[13shalie]

god i knew a dead person was coming up but it still scared the shit out of me!!!!!!!

[FunnyLittleChap]

This scene was a conflation of two different events in the original novel, the head was found on the beach at the beginning, a part of that girl, whereas they found Gardner's boat, during the day, empty with just the tooth so they had to conclude he'd been taken. But this is a real improvement on the novel (which rocks by the way) and is the money shot for the whole movie, unfortunately everything was more or less downhill from hereon in.

[cochranexyz]

The Mayor is perfect as the single minded bureaucrat.

[johnnyrockerfella]

how good are these actors.. they all deserve the academy award

[jksonny]

It's a great moment in the film but I originally didn't know the head in the boat was supposed to be the same guy you had been seeing throught the movie. For one thing, the glimpse of the head is so fast and the water is so dark that you can't really see it that well. Secondly, the Ben Gardner character isn't really clearly introduced. It wasn't until after I saw the movie a couple of times that I figured out who Ben Gardner was. It would have helped if Ben had introduced himself to Hooper.

[KingCharlieKitten]

4:35 for head.

[Kreloar]

Goddamn it, I knew there was going to be a corpse, but I didn't know when this was going to happen. Still it scared the shit out of me.

[SamuelH105]

One of the scariest scenes in movie history!

[Kingdom007Hearts]

one of richard dreyfuss' best films.

5:38 = i love the shot glass line.

[TheTwilightSagaSucks]

where can i find the scene when hooper gets off the boat and meets alot of people