jaws

     

Jaws may refer to the following:

Trivia about jaws

  • Sharks were the first vertebrates with a fully functioning set of these, also the title of a famous novel
  • Tourists are wary of Amity Island's beaches when swimmers disappear from the water in this 1975 classic
  • The Dict. of American Literary Characters lists "Great White Shark" from this 1974 Peter Benchley book
  • Peter Quint is a ghost in "The Turn of the Screw" & Quint is an Amity Island fisherman in this 1974 novel
  • Fish chows down on visitors at Long Island resort; gets harpooned; eats pursuer
  • Actor Richard Kiel "chewed up" the scenery as this villain in 2 Bond films
  • (Alex: Take a look at the monitor. Film seen here:)
  • "The great fish moved silently through the night water, propelled by short sweeps of its crescent tail"
  • Amity is a city, not an island, in this Peter Benchley thriller; it is on Long Island, however
  • Richard Dreyfuss,Roy Scheider
  • "You're gonna need a bigger boat"
  • This movie featured the theme music heard here (stay in the water?)
  • 1975:"Don't go in the water"
  • A 1975 thriller:Steven Spielberg,John Williams
  • "Yell barracuda, everybody says, 'huh? what?'; you yell shark, we've got a panic on our hands" is said in this film
  • Steven Spielberg named the mechanical shark in this 1975 classic "Bruce" after his lawyer
  • "The great fish moved silently through the night water..."
  • The killer in the "Revenge" sequel to this movie eats 1 Brody off Amity Island, then looks for more of them in the Bahamas
  • Amity Island was the setting for this 1975 film that topped 1979's TV ratings
  • "Mandibles"
  • Might be best not to bring up this fishy movie's sequels "3-D" & "The Revenge" when taking the floor
  • In 1965 the highest grossing movie of all time was "The Sound of Music"; 10 years later it was this 1975 film
  • You're gonna need a bigger boat than the Orca in this Peter Benchley thriller
  • 1975:"I used to hate the water.""I can't imagine why"
  • "Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies", croons Robert Shaw in this Spielberg splasher flick
  • 1975:"You're gonna need a bigger boat"
  • The sharklike acanthodians were the first vertebrates with these; earlier ones had vacuum-cleaner mouths