The ultimate summer blockbuster - Do you know these five facts about Jaws?

Landing onto the silver screen in 1975, Jaws quickly became one of the biggest and most important movies of all time. The film created the summer blockbuster season, and brought people into cinemas in their droves. But do you know these five facts about the man eater thriller?

Jaws would arguably go on to become Steven Spielberg's most important movie in his film portfolio, and there had been no doubt the director was the man for the job.

After Universal Pictures agreed to make the movie, producers David Brown and Richard Zanuck went searching for a director, and quickly settled on Spielberg after watching his 1971 flick Duel, in which a berserk trucker torments a timid driver.

Once the producers watched the movie and realised Spielberg had what it took to make Jaws, the young filmmaker – who was 26 years old at the time – gladly signed on.

For a film called Jaws there isn’t a lot of shark scenes in the movie. The shark isn’t fully revealed until the one-hour-21-minute mark in the two-hour film.

This was purposeful however, as the mechanical sharks frequently broke down and had operating issues, and so Steven Spielberg did his best to hide the prop creature's limitations from viewers as much as possible.

Producer David Brown explained: "It was very tiresome and very tedious. There were all kinds of mechanical problems with electrical polarisation in salt water. [Producer] Richard Zanuck and I more than once saw our careers going to the bottom of the Atlantic while the sharks sank and frogmen were sent down to rescue them."

Despite its production woes, Jaws proved to be worth the effort. The film became the first picture in Hollywood history to make over $100 million at the box office, and ended its run in cinemas with over $260 million.

While Jaws was later topped by Star Wars to become the highest-grossing Hollywood movie to date, Steven Spielberg was taken aback by how well the 1975 film did.

He recounted: "I never would have guessed that so many people would have gone to see Jaws. In my mind, the shark looked dumb. When I went to the first preview, in Dallas, and people were screaming and popcorn was flying at the screen, my first feeling was, 'Oh my god! I didn’t think any of this was going to work.' The truth is, you never ever know. "

As well as a financial success, Jaws proved to be a major hit with the Academy!

The film was nominated for four honours at the 48th Academy Awards – including Best Picture – and left the event with three trophies for Best Original Score, Best Film Editing and Best Sound.

The iconic main theme for Jaws - Composed by John Williams - didn't leave Steven Spielberg impressed, who thought the music maestro was actually pulling his leg due to the simplicity of the two-note melody.

The filmmaker recounted: "I expected to hear something kind of weird and melodic, something tonal, but eerie; something of another world, almost like outer space under the water. And what he played me instead, with two fingers on the lower keys, was 'dun dun, dun dun, dun dun.' And at first, I began to laugh. He had a great sense of humor, and I thought he was putting me on."