Though Brody grabbed his hand, Quint slipped and tried his best to avoid the shark's jaws, kicking and shouting. Sadly, the shark won and sank its teeth into Quint's waste.

Though Spielberg shot “Jaws” on Martha’s Vineyard, off Cape Cod, it was the neighboring island, Nantucket, that inspired Benchley’s novel. He has spent time fishing there with his father.

As represented in Jaws, Quint (Robert Shaw), Brody and Hooper have hardly anything in common. But when they sit down and swap stories about their lives, they find they’re not so different.