*Fun fact:* the movie was filmed in Martha's Vineyard and one of the kids who played the prank with the fake shark fin actually became the real life police chief of Martha's Vineyard last year.

Per IMBD Several decades after the filming of Jaws (1975), Lee Fierro, who plays Mrs. Kintner, walked into a seafood restaurant and noticed that the menu had an "Alex Kintner Sandwich". She commented that she had played his mother so many years ago. The owner of the restaurant ran out to meet her - none other than Jeffrey Voorhees, who had played her son. They hadn't seen each other since the original movie shoot.

The story about the USS Indianapolis was true. One of my friends was the last surviving member of the Indianapolis’ US Marine Corps detachment. He passed away a couple years ago. RIP Ed Harrell and all my other shipmates.

Other people watching Jaws: 'This is a masterpiece of cinema.' Dawn watching Jaws: 'I'm pretty sure I saw a testicle.'

I remember the stupid kid joke from this movie. The girl that died at the start of the movie didn't have Dandruff, they found her Head and Shoulders on the beach.

The story about the USS Indianapolis is a true story. Quint pretty much told it like it really happened. Not many people in the United States had heard about the sinking and the sharks until this movie came out....I didn't. 4-5 days in the ocean without water, by itself would be unendurable, but to have all that water around you and you can't drink would drive me mad!

If you watch Jaws backwards, it's actually a heartwarming story about a shark passing out limbs to the disabled.

They don't have to pay that guy anymore LOL. That's the best line at the end of this movie that I have ever heard!

"Has there been many more shark movies after this? " Oh you sweet summer child...

As Dawn just skips over the entire Indianapolis speech, one of the greatest monologues in movie history. 😄

The USS Indianapolis monologue is the most amazing acting ever captured on film…

Dawn, you made me tear up with this reaction. My mom (who passed away 5 years ago) used to always sympathize with the shark in this movie, just like you. It was something about her I had forgotten until I saw your reaction. Thank you, for giving me back an awesome memory.

The film was shot at Martha's Vineyard outside the Massachusetts coast (where all the rich people live). They did it in May that year, so the air was still quite cold, even more so in the water. All the extras were local people, including the kids. The short scene with the TV journalist walking on the beach talking about the danger, is Peter Benchley, the author of the book JAWS. He was a news guy before he became a bestselling author. A story that was never told was about Chief Brody and his gun wound in his torso. One of the reasons Roy Scheider got the part was because he did French Connection before Jaws, and Spielberg felt that the audience could relate to "a cop background". Clever. Oh, yes, the story about the USS Indianapolis is very true.

Someone, I think it was Spielberg, named the shark Bruce. Bruce was supposed to much more prominent in the movie. But he was always broken. So they had to film without him. It added an extra level of suspense to the movie. Spielberg even said it made the movie better.

It's somehow gratifying to me that you can be genuinely thrilled by a movie almost 50 years old. I saw it came out and was also thrilled. It was not only art, it changed beach life for years! Thank you for the great reaction!

The live shark was used in some of the scenes with the shark cage. The shark in this movie was supposed to be 25 ft long, which is extremely rare, so they used a tiny cage and a little person with a 16 ft great white instead. Shot in Australia.

One of the greatest jump scares in movie history. Never go night diving on a boat half eaten by a shark.

Dawn, you are the most perceptive woman (and movie reactor) to ever live! I would bet money that not even the most famous movie critics ever guessed the end of "Jaws" as early as you did! You're amazing!!!

17:28 "At some point, in this movie, they're going to need a bigger boat." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

In the original novel, the reason the mayor is hesitant to close the beaches is because Amity is indebted to the NY Mafia, there's a side plot with the local TV reporter (played by the novel's author Peter Benchley in 1 scene) uncovering the mob connections. The protagonists are much worse people in the book, too. Brody is an abusive alcoholic, Hooper has an affair with Brody's wife, and Quint is literally Captain Ahab. Spielberg said that he was rooting for the shark while reading the novel.

The best story that gets forgotten is the Jaws them. John Williams played it without any video. Everyone thought it didn't make sense and he told them to trust him. Growing up in the 70's and 80's was the height of John Williams scores.

The mechanical supervisor for "Jaws" also designed the giant squid for Disney's "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea." Now, there is a classic sea monster movie for you with screen legends Kirk Douglas, James Mason, and Peter Lorre.

I can't believe that you skipped over one of the most iconic scenes in this movie; indeed, one of the best in movie history - the great Robert Shaw recounting the true story of the USS Indianapolis.

Robert Shaw was also in a movie called The Sting with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. It's a very good movie that you would love

The 1977 movie, "The Deep" was another movie based the novel written by Peter Benchley (Jaws), starring Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset, and Nick Nolte. It isn't exactly a "sea monster" movie, but it is set in the ocean and is suspenseful. The big draw to the movie back then was that Jacqueline Bisset had a famous wet wardrobe scene in it. During the first summer after "Jaws" premiered, exactly three people worldwide went into the ocean. The rest were waiting for a bigger boat.

"Surely the individual people will have enough sense not to go in the water" No, they won't. And don't call me Shirley . . .

5:38 "Have you dealt with this before in your last job?" In this movie, Chief Brody is new here, and his last job was in NYC where he never had to worry about shark attacks.

If you think about Quints Indianapolis story, and he reaches the part about his friend, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. He accurately describes his own up and coming death. Plus the boat name, Orca. Orcas kill and eat sharks....this movie is symbolism galore, and in a way has served to keep interest in studying and preserving sharks

This movie is considered the 1st Summer Blockbuster. This started the trend of big movies being promoted and put into the movie theaters after Memorial Day (end of May) in the U.S. If you want to understand the USS Indianapolis, google the ship to read the story.

One of the greatest, if not THE greatest blockbusters of all time. Jaws is a filmmaking masterpiece.

The little boy who got eaten and the Mom didn't see each other after the movie for decades until the lady who played the Mom went into a seafood restaurant and saw some Jaws themed menu items and mentioned that she played the Mom. The waitress went into the kitchen and out comes the owner, who had played the little boy!

A neat story was that about twenty years after Jaws cam out Elisabeth Fierro was having lunch at a restaurant on the vineyard when she noticed one of the menu items was a “Alex Kintner sandwich” and mentioned to waitress that she had played his mother in Jaws. The waitress disappears in the back and a few minutes later the owner of the restaurant comes out and it is none other than Jeffery Voorhees who played Alex Kinter. They hadn’t seen each other since filming the movie

Also, the scene when they are examining Ben Gardner’s beat up fishing boat, and Hooper pulls a shark tooth the size of a shot glass out of the hole in the hull -- just as Ben Gardner’s mutilated head suddenly appears -- is one of the greatest jump-scares of all time!

22:15 "Hey, something in the sky". Yep. That's a Steven Spielberg trademark. He used to put a falling/shooting star in all of his movies a long time ago.

Composer John Williams wrote this musical score and over a hundred more for other films. Most of them were beautiful, complex symphonic pieces. Interviewed on The Tonight Show, he told Johnny Carson that after his death, he'd be remembered for two notes.

I saw this film 28 years ago as an 8 year old and 16 years later I was a marine biologist studying great white sharks. I adore this film like you wouldn't believe.

I remember waiting over an hour in line to see this when I was 8 in 1975. I kept seeing the severed leg scene that night. Thanks Dawn.

20:57 - The barrels serve 2 purposes. They help them track and find the Shark. And the barrels slow the Shark down, keep him close to the surface and wears him out. Of course this Shark was so powerful, even 3 barrels couldnt keep him down

"Well, you don't have to pay that guy anymore" - LOL, love the humor.

The film is set in New England. Sharks don't necessarily consume an entire body. Whatever it doesn't catch will wash ashore, as with any organic matter. When tides roll in, lots of debris can wash ashore.

Quint's dying was one of the big movie shocks of my early life.

A play based on the beyond the scenes of the making of Jaws is out now. It's called "The Shark is Broken." Which is what the locals kept hearing over the loudspeakers during the filming.

"You don't have to pay the guy anymore."........LOL

“It didn’t work out too well for him…he got to eat a lot before he died.” Ever the optimist. Love it.

This movie is in my top 3 of all time. I'm glad that you loved this movie and enjoyed your reaction.

Fun fact a shark can smell a single drop of blood from over a mile away. Also the story about the navy ship sinking is a true story that really happened.

Sharks don't eat things whole in general. A great white is an ambush predator, that hits a victim from below to disable them, and then continues to hit them until they are no longer a threat to them, before eating.

They actually did build a pneumatic Shark and named it 'Bruce' after Steven Spielbergs lawyer. One of the reasons this movie is so good is the fake shark kept breaking down so Spielberg had to do more with music and atmosphere, and used the fake shark for the bare minimum. The footage of the shark on top of the cage was a real great white shark stuck on top of a real shark cage. The reason the shark took bites first is that they usually take a 'Taste Bite' first because taste is one of the only senses they have to check what a material is. In most cases they don't follow up and eat humans - it's a case of them mistaking us for seals. On the other hand if a Shark the size of a Great White takes a lump out of you then you are very likely to bleed to death in short order.

Robert Shaw played Quint. Another great film with Robert Shaw is The Sting. It starred Robert Redford and Paul Newman.

The mechanical shark was notorious to work with and Spielberg had to change several scenes to film around it. This without a doubt made the movie better. Giving the POV of the shark built so much tension and when he FINALLY reveals himself to Brody during the "You're gonna need a bigger boat" scene is one of the best payoffs in cinema history.

We can always count on Dawn to spot any "easter egg testicles" subtly hidden in films.

Quint, the shark hunter, was Robert Shaw ("From Russia With Love", "Battle Of The Bulge"), Chief Brody was Roy Scheider ("The 7 Ups", "2010"), and Hooper, the shark scientist, was Richard Dreyfus ("American Graffiti", "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind""), The Mayor was Murray Hamilton ("The Spirit Of S. Louis"), and the TV reporter on the beach was Peter Benchley, the man who wrote the book "JAWS".

The transition from your discussion about the difference between mama shark & daddy shark to singing baby shark had me cackling. Haha xD

Déjà vu… I could swear Dawn has reacted to this already. Am I having a “senior moment“? Edit: 7:20 Finally, someone who doesn’t lose their shit when they hear nails on a blackboard. I was beginning to think I was the only one. 🤣 15:53 And this is why I’m subbed to this channel. I never noticed this before, but now I cannot un-see it.

Wait. You knew the shanty "Show me the way to go home" before watching this movie? That's amazing! 😭

Quint survived the Indianapolis, but then spent the rest of his life shark hunting. He locked himself into his destiny, and knew it, even sought it. And in no way does it parallel Moby Dick, that'd be too easy and obvious. /s

great reaction Dawn, I was 12 when this movie came out I saw it 13 times that summer. I saw a interview with the lady that played Mrs. kitner and she said that people would come up to her and ask her to slap them and she would refuse them at first but it got to be so bad she finally gave in and started slapping these people. it got to a point where she would show up at shopping malls and she would charge them money if they wanted to be slapped and believe me the lines were long true story. have a safe week.

It Came From Beneath The Sea is a great sea monster movie from the 1950s. The special effects were done by the great Ray Harryhausen.

To this day, this movie had one of the biggest impact on people, some 2 million plus folks refused to go back swimming in the ocean

one of the kids with the fake fin is now a sheriff on that island

Leviathan 1989 is a terrific sea monster movie. All practical effects. And a great cast.

Dawn Marie, you truly know how to make a male (shark or human) feel good about himself 26:52 Dawn inhales deeply in a long gasp and says, "it gets bigger every time I see it". Shark blushes scene continues.

I'm sure someone else's made this comment by now, but the story that Quint tells about the sailors been eaten by sharks one-by-one, that's a true story. It happened in 1945 during World War II, it was the USS Indianapolis.

The shark's name is Bruce, and you can learn all about him in the documentary "The Shark is Still Working"

Sharks don't just go chomp. They can get quite excited, And they're messy eaters, so bits of you could go everywhere. It's a hull not a hole they were talking about🤣 The story about the Indianapolis is something that actually happened. Quint (the shark hunter) was played by Robert Shaw, a British actor. He did a pretty convincing job I thought. At one time they used to use shark here in fish and chips because we have a lot of sharks - you could tell if you'd got shark because it tasted like shit. The sequels sadly are crap.

If you like realistic shark movies, watch the Sharknado series. They’re very well respected in the scientific community for their realism.

One of the craziest things about this movie is that it is only rated PG because the PG13 rating didn't exist back then. Today I think this movie would have been rated R.

I saw a great bumper sticker once that said, “Just think, in Jaws II the Mayor is still the same person. Don’t forget to vote!”

My 2nd have film of all-time (IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE is my 1st) - this is a masterpiece and beyond iconic. From its problem plagued production and shoot (the mechanical shark literally sank to the bottom of the ocean on the first day because it had not been tested in salt water! And it frequently malfunctioned so Spielberg had to come up with inventive shots suggesting the shark which in the long run made the film even more terrifying - you never really knew where it'd pop up even despite the John Williams score (which is epic - true story when John presented the famous duh-duh-duh of the opening titles Steven said "Is that it?!" he wasn't impressed - LOL!) The script was daily re-written over and over (the novelist Peter Benchley - whose book was adapted for this film - cameos as the journalist on Amity Beach on the 4th of July - and no Amity is fictitious - shot on location in Martha's Vineyard). Robert Shaw's Indianapolis speech is arguably one of cinema's best monologues and yes all a true story that happened in WWII (!) The day of the shoot Shaw (who had a rep to be a heavy drinker) showed up intoxicated and couldn't complete the scene as written; Spielberg shut down for the day and in the middle of the night later on Shaw phoned him up to apologize and said he'd be onset in the morning sober. He did and they shot it in one take - what you see in the film (!!) Spielberg felt after a test screening the film was not scary enough and he needed one true jolt to scare the shit out of the audience so one weekend they shot the sequence of Ben Gardner's wrecked boat in his own pool (!!!) and used evaporated milk to give the water a cloudy look to look like the ocean. In the next sneak preview he delivered the horrific goods with audiences SCREAMING at it (you can look it up on You Tube!) Spielberg has 2 cameos in the film -he's the cameraman filming Benchley as they cross the beach while Brody is chatting w/Meddows the newspaper editor and he's the voice of Amity Patrol calling Quint on the Orca while they're asea. The 'there's something in the sky' moments are shooting stars (which were actually added in post production; all these years I thought they were 'happy accidents' and only found this out last year!) The live shark moments were filmed on location in Nassau and used a small person (male) as Hooper to show 'scale' - they lowered him in the cage and indeed a GWS showed and became entangled in the harness (which is in the film as well as the close-up of the shark immediately after Hooper drops the dart - it swims into camera as if to say 'hey, how's it goin'). Otherwise all practical f/x (CGI didn't exist then as it does know) and you can't 'train' any shark (as someone first thought to do!!) Yes this film is pretty much the first of its time (there's been literally dozens of rip-offs and pale imitations of it for decades but this is the gold standard; its subsequent sequels got worse with each chapter - the 2nd is fair and re-unites Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary and even Murray Hamilton (um no he looks nothing like John Wayne!! LOL!) The shark was nicknamed Bruce after Spielberg's high-powered attorney. This film did what PSYCHO did for showers for going into the water of any kind (and yes audiences flocked to the cinemas and avoided the beaches!) Orcas are not evil ; they're pretty docile. Don't know where you got that from Dawn Marie - but I love you anyway!

Me watching this 20 years ago: "It's unrealistic that they would be arguing to keep the beaches open just for businesses when people are actually dying." Me watching this after the pandemic: "Oh..."

I was born in 1974 and this was THE original shark movie that traumatised the world. It took me decades to discover that sharks are harmless, dolphins kill more people each year than sharks do and falling coconuts kill more more people than dolphins. In other words it is safer to swim in shark infested waters than it is to walk underneath coconut trees!

You’re the first person I’ve seen who reacted to this movie and noticed the shooting star. It was real and it was just sheer luck that they filmed it.

Watch The Abyss! Great underwater movie.

The magic of Jaws was created by the editor, Verna Fields. She won the Oscar for editing the movie. She also trained another editor Marcia Lucas. Marcia, George Lucas’ wife, won the Oscar for editing the original Star Wars.

Skips over the greatest monologue in film history to sing along with a goddamn pub song. Classic Scot. I love it.❤

Jaws is a great movie and there are moments that make us afraid, anxious and nervous because of the shark scenes. A relative of mine has the VHS version and still has it intact. I have the physical UHD version and the digital version on Apple TV. iTunes 😊 Afterwards with Jaws 2, 3 & 4 were some of the worst in the saga I hope you make reaction videos to the other Jaws movies 🙏🏻❤️

Hi Dawn, great reaction!! Your reaction at 22:33 is priceless!! I wouldn't necessarily call this a creature feature, but one movie that you will really love is 'The Abyss (Extended Version) - 1989'.

this IS one of the BEST MOVIES ever, thanks for watching it and reliving the excitement of a first watch

Dawn Marie, I have seen people react to this movie many times. You are the first to say that Quint did not need to be paid. Bravo!

They never explain onscreen, but the idea of the barrels is to put a drag on the shark that will exhaust it and force it to stop swimming. Since sharks have to swim forward constantly in order to "breathe" that will kill it. (That's also what Quint meant when he talked about luring it into the shallows to "drown" it-- he means to trap it without room to keep swimming.)

There are maybe a dozen “perfect” movies in the history of cinema……this is definitely one of them. This is the original summer blockbuster.

One of my all time favourite movies. Seen it dozens of times. Never once noticed you could see up the blokes shorts. Obviously focusing on different bits :D

I was born and raised in an old sea port town not far from where this was filmed ( Martha’s Vineyard). I saw this in a movie theater when it came out in 1975 and I was 11 years old at the time. It was amazing sitting on the beach that summer and NO ONE was going out past their knees in the water 😂😂😂

"Why didn't the shark go for the fat one?" Same reason we eat lamb and veal and eggs. The young ones are more tender. 😂

"Jaws" is a prime example of how to film a "monster" movie. Story, characters, realism, effects, music, gore, pace, setting....all falling nicely into place. And yes....a hundred "monster" movies followed this attempting to capture the same magic as Mr Spielberg. Nope!

25:33 Yes, the shark has a name. His name is Bruce. Trust me, look it up. :)

Fun facts: The shark is mostly an animatronic or a fake fin. However, in the scene where the shark is twisting around the shark cage, that's a real shark. They actually filmed a shorter man in the cage with a real great white for scale, but the shark accidentally got caught in the cage. The poor animal was probably terrified as it tried to escape, the diver admitted to being just as terrified after he escaped. They left the footage in the movie and it was one of, if not the first filmed event of a shark getting tangled in a cage.

Single-handedly has kept me out of the ocean for basically my whole life. Thanks, Jaws.

This legendary classic movie is the first movie to be called a Summer Blockbuster. It launched a massive amount of shark and animal attack movies following it wanting to capitalize on "Jaws" success. The girl at the beginning was a nibble test from the shark to see if 'this thing' can be eaten.

Nice to know you swim naked in the day. Gives the dawn a new meaning 😉

The Abyss, Lake Placid, Anaconda, The Meg, Underwater and Sharknado.

Woman runs into the the sea naked. Dawn "I would never..... Well not in the dark anyway" I almost fell off my chair laughing.... 😂😂

Fun fact: ... The shark models and animatronics used in the film were all named "Bruce" after director Steven Spielberg's lawyer, Bruce Raymer. In "Finding Nemo", they named the Shark in the "Fish are friends, not food" meeting Bruce in honor of the Jaws movie franchise.

Is this just the best casting ever. 😊 I love Quints dig at Hooper and Hoopers come back behind his back. 😂

I'm always impressed by the barrel that almost hits -Hooper's- Brody's face and knocks his glasses. You can't fake it and that Barrel looks heavy

7:55 -- For a sense of scale.. Imagine the Mayor's Cadillac is the size and weight of the shark..

From IMDB - "Several decades after the film's release, Lee Fierro, who played Mrs. Kintner, walked into a seafood restaurant and noticed that the menu had an "Alex Kintner Sandwich." She commented that she had played his mother so many years ago; the owner of the restaurant ran out to meet her, and he was none other than Jeffrey Voorhees, who had played her son. They had not seen each other since the original movie shoot." Also, the 2 little boys with the fake shark fin, one of them is now the Mayor of the town that played Amity.

"Has there been many shark movies after this one?" Oh, Dawn. Never change, love. XD

Quint's story about USS Indianapolis is true, according to what "Quint" would know. The only radio room on Indianapolis that was working after the torpedo was number 2. CWO Leonard Woods was in charge. He sent the room crew to abandon ship, and continued to send SOS until he went down with the ship. No one ever acknowledged receiving those calls.

"You go in the cage. Cage goes in the water. You go in the water. Shark's in the water; our shark."