Happy 40th Anniversary To Jaws

Steven Spielberg's Jaws, the film often associated with reinventing the summer blockbuster, was released on this day in 1975.

The film, based on the 1974 best-selling novel by Peter Benchley, centers on a giant, man-eating great white shark attacking beachgoers on Amity Island, a fictional New England summer resort town. The local police chief teams with a marine biologist and a professional shark hunter to get rid of the beast.

Adjusted for ticket price inflation, Jaws would remain the seventh highest-grossing film ever at the U.S. box office. Many of the film's elements, especially the John Williams score, remain iconic pieces of American popular culture.