Jaws’ Mayor Vaughn seems a little too reckless with people's lives—almost like his business is death, not tourism.

Performance Worth Watching: Well, it’s nice to see Roy Scheider again, even if it’s kind of a bummer that he was essentially strongarmed into appearing in Jaws 2 (for a hefty raise, of course) in lieu ...

Jaws recently celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2025 with a new documentary, but the original 1975 film, along with its ...

Fifty years ago, Jaws hit theaters with the force of a tsunami, and proceeded to scare the living daylights out of millions of viewers. Beach attendance plummeted in the months following the film’s ...

This time it's personal. The unfortunate widowed Ellen Brody (Lorraine Gary) heads down to the Bahamas to visit her son, Michael (Lance Guest), and guess who follows? Between the swingin' bed-hopping, ...

I first saw “Jaws” during its theatrical debut in 1975 when I was 15. The previous year, family friends had loaned me Peter Benchley’s novel. The book and film terrified me. But I had been a ...

Steven Spielberg’s Jaws has been a staple of the summer movie season since it started terrifying moviegoers 50 years ago. Its challenges during production became a Hollywood legend for all those ...

On June 20, 1975, Steven Spielberg’s Jaws—the original summer blockbuster ... The pneumatically-powered shark, designed and built by production designer Joe Alves, weighed in at 1.2 tons and measured ...

'Jaws': Which Actors Are Still Alive as Classic Shark Film Celebrates 50th Anniversary? originally appeared on Parade. The classic shark thriller Jaws celebrates its 50th anniversary on June 20, 2025.