Carl Gottlieb and Peter Benchley adapted the latter’s much-devoured novel about a great white shark terrorizing a New England beach/fishing community, and Spielberg powered past production problems to deliver the first-ever summer blockbuster. An Oscar winner for Best Sound, Original Score (John Williams), and Film Editing (Verna Fields); praising the movie, Kael wrote that “the editing rhythms are very tricky, and the shock images loom up huge, right on top of you.”