Jaws

In his breakthrough film – only his second – Spielberg rarely shows the most famous shark in film history. During the first attack on a woman swimming at night we don’t see anything of the shark at all. The mechanical shark might be the bait, but it was the acting of Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw that gives the film its head, heart and soul. The highlight of which is the reconciliation scene between nerdy scientist Dreyfuss and rough-and-ready sailor Shaw.