The movie that put Spielberg on the map.
Jaws and two summers later Star Wars changed the way studios looked at the summer season which before had often been a slow time for the movie biz. The idea of the summer blockbuster became cemented in Hollywood.
And to think Steven Spielberg went on to give us “Close Encounters Of The Third Kind”, “Indiana Jones”, “E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial”, “Jurassic Park” and “Schindler’s List”!