6 Reasons Why Jaws Is Secretly A Western
4. The Main Trio
Quint, Brody, Hooper - the grizzled old timer, the Sheriff and the young gunslinger. Characters that could be straight out of Rio Bravo. Quint has been there, done that and harpooned the t-shirt; Brody is the Sheriff out to save his town; and Hooper the cocky youngster out to prove his worth.
Three men, far from home, out on the frontier...sounds like a Howard Hawks picture.