Heroes & Villains Summer: Jaws Steven Spielberg's rollicking, career-making mammoth of a thriller set the bar for all future summer blockbusters with a villain that doesn't even need to be seen to send chills down your spine. When Amity Island is terrorized by a deadly great white shark, embattled police chief Brody (Roy Scheider), boy wonder oceanographer Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss), and salty old shark hunter Quint (Robert Shaw) join forces to track down and destroy the skinny dipper-crunching, man-lunching beast.