In 1975, a 28-year-old filmmaker named Steven Spielberg scared the bathing suits off of movie audiences all over the world with the smash hit “Jaws.” His big-screen adaptation of Peter Benchley’s best-selling novel cost just $7 million dollars to make, went on to gross more than $470 million around the world and launched Spielberg’s Academy Award-winning directing career. The book and movie were about a killer great white shark that terrorizes the fictional beach resort town of Amity Island. The movie opens with the famous night-time attack of a frolicking female swimmer, with John Williams’ understated, classic score supplying the tension: Da-dum. Da-dum. Da-dum, da-dum, da-dum! The water went red, panic ensued and a classic was born.
via Top 10 Shark Attack Stories: Saltwater Fish: Animal Planet.
