Jaws 2

Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.

• Director: Jeannot Szwarc
• Genre:Adventure / Drama / Horror / Thriller
• Runtime:116 minutes

Cast

Roy Scheider : Police Chief Martin Brody
Lorraine Gary : Ellen Brody
Murray Hamilton : Mayor Larry Vaughn
Joseph Mascolo : Len Peterson
Jeffrey Kramer : Deputy Jeff Hendricks

Two divers are photographing the wreck of the Orca, Quint’s boat from the first film, and are suddenly attacked and killed by a large great white shark not before one of the divers gets a photo of the shark’s eye . The shark later kills a female water skier. The female driver of the speedboat tries to defend herself by first throwing a gasoline tank at the shark (accidentally spilling some on herself) and then igniting the fuel with a flare gun. The fire ignites the gas tank and the speedboat explodes, killing the driver and leaving the shark severely burnt on the right side of its face.

In addition to these incidents, a killer whale is beached at a nearby lighthouse with large wounds, which Police Chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) suggests were caused by a great white shark. Mayor Vaughn (Murray Hamilton) doesn’t share Brody’s belief that the town has another shark problem and warns him not to do something hasty. Later, Brody spots a section of a ruined speedboat bobbing in the surf just off the beach. When he goes to retrieve it, he encounters the burnt remains of the female speedboat driver.

Brody angrily grounds his son Mike (Mark Gruner) because of his reluctance to find a summer job, preferring to go sailing every day, and gives him a job at the beach. The following day, while Brody is in an observation tower, which Vaughn is angry about, Brody sees a large shadow, which he thinks is a shark. He orders everyone out of the water and fires his gun, causing a panic. Later that evening, he receives the photo of the shark’s eye, taken by one of the attacked divers. Brody shows it to Vaughn and his Townsmen, but they refuse to accept the evidence put in front of them. Vaughn and his sidekick Len Peterson (Joseph Mascolo) fire Brody for the beach incident making up his deputy, Hendricks, to chief. Read more