"Jaws"

This is a guide to the suspenseful 1970s film "Jaws", about the man-eating shark who terrifies the peaceful community of Amity Island. Police Chief Brody has to kill the shark assisted only by a marine biologist and a drunken shark expert. Roy Schneider and Richard Dryfuss starred in the film.

Nigel Andrews is the film critic of the Financial Times and the author of True Myths: The Life and Times of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Birch Lane Press, 1996. After graduating from Cambridge University he worked at the British Film Institute as an editor on the Cinema One book series and was a frequent writer for Sight and Sound and the Monthly Film Bulletin. He has also broadcast regularly for BBC Radio, writing and presenting programmes on the arts and cinema. In 1985 he was named Critic of the Year in the British Press Awards.