I am not generally, a huge fan of one Stephen Speilberg. I like “Dual” and “Jaws” but few others. I saw “Jaws” in the cinema, just after it was released, and I remember 2 scenes particularly; one when Richard Dreyfuss was swimming under a boat and a head fell out of a hole in the hull, and at the end where Roy Scheider shoots at a bottle of oxygen in the Shark’s mouth, and the Shark explodes into thousands of pieces. When the head fell out of the boat, everyone in the cinema jumped and  gasped with shock and fear, and, when the Shark was blown up at the end … everyone in the cinema cheered. What fun it was. Speilberg was given great credit for this film, notably for denying us a look at the Shark that lurked beneath until well into the film. He modestly attributed that “unseen” shark to the fact that the model shark(s) didn’t work properly when they began filming. Whatever … Not showing the shark made us even edgier, and Hitchcock would have been proud of Spielberg. The supporting cast were very good;  Murray Hamilton (sleazy mayor who wanted to keep the beaches open for the 4th of July Tourist money), Robert Shaw (Salty old shark killer who recounted a story of a local girl, “For 17 years she kept her virginity … not a bad record in this vacinity”), Richard Dreyfuss(The “oceanographer” who knew about sharks and knew that “This one is a BIG one”). The film was a lovely, scarey ride, and the only naff bit was the scene where, near the end,  Robert Shaw was being devoured by an obviously fake Great White shark. I enjoyed the film enormously and still like to catch it when it is on TV but, I still can’t belive that there really is such a job as an “Oceanographer”.