171 Jaws (1975)

In this episode, we’re dissecting the Steven Spielberg classic Jaws, including how it benefited from mistakes, its painful similarities to our modern lives, the creation of the summer blockbuster, masculinity, economical character development, bell-bottoms, sharks, & more!

Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley. It stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody who, with the help of a marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a professional shark hunter (Robert Shaw), hunts a man-eating great white shark that is attacking beachgoers at a summer resort town. Murray Hamilton plays the mayor, and Lorraine Gary portrays Brody's wife. The screenplay is credited to Benchley, who wrote the first drafts, and actor-writer Carl Gottlieb, who rewrote the script during principal photography.