The Creature From The Black Lagoon

When they arrive at the camp, they discover Carl's assistants have been killed while he was away. Lucas suggests it was likely done by a jaguar , but the others are unsure.

A further excavation of the area where Carl found the fossil turns up nothing. Mark is ready to give up the search, but David suggests that perhaps thousands of years ago the part of the embankment containing the rest of the skeleton fell into the water and was washed downriver, broken up by the current.

Carl says the tributary empties into a lagoon. Lucas calls it the "Black Lagoon", a paradise from which no one has ever returned.

The scientists decide to risk it, unaware that the amphibious "Gill-man" that killed Carl's assistants has been watching them. Taking notice of the beautiful Kay, the creature follows the Rita all the way downriver to the Black Lagoon.

Once the expedition arrives, David and Mark go diving to collect rock samples from the lagoon floor. After they return, Kay goes swimming and is stalked underwater by the Gill-man, who then gets briefly caught in one of the ship's drag lines.

Although it escapes, the Creature leaves a claw behind in the net, revealing its existence. Subsequent encounters with the Gill-man claim the lives of Lucas's crew members, before the Creature is captured and locked in a cage aboard the Rita.

It escapes during the night, attacking Edwin, who was guarding it. Kay smashes the Creature with a lantern, driving it off, but Edwin is severely injured.

Following this incident, David decides they should return to civilization. Mark, obsessed with capturing or killing the Creature, objects.

As the Rita tries to leave, they find the Gill-man has blocked the lagoon's entrance with fallen logs.

While the others attempt to remove the logs, Mark is mauled to death while trying to capture the Creature single-handed under water.

The Gill-man then abducts Kay and takes her to its cavern lair. David, Lucas and Carl chase after the Creature and Kay is ultimately rescued.

The Creature is riddled with bullets before retreating to the lagoon, where its body sinks into the watery depths. Producer William Alland was attending a dinner party during the filming of Citizen Kane in which he played the reporter Thompson when Mexican cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa told him about the myth of a race of half-fish, half-human creatures in the Amazon River.

Alland wrote story notes titled "The Sea Monster" 10 years later, using Beauty and the Beast as inspiration. Following the success of the 3D film House of Wax in , Jack Arnold was hired to direct the film in the same format.

The designer of the approved Gill-man was Disney animator Milicent Patrick , though her role was deliberately downplayed by make-up artist Bud Westmore , who for half a century received sole credit for the creature's conception.

Ben Chapman portrayed the Gill-man for the majority of the scenes shot at Universal City, California. Writers: Harry Essex screenplay by , Arthur A.

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Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Your favorite science-fiction film of the s? Edit Cast Complete credited cast: Richard Carlson David Reed Julie Adams Kay as Julia Adams Richard Denning Mark Williams Antonio Moreno Carl Maia Nestor Paiva Lucas Whit Bissell Thompson Bernie Gozier After having killed numerous members of the expedition, the Gill-man takes Kay to his underwater lair, where he is tracked down by the remaining survivors and riddled with bullets.

The Gill-man tries to escape by swimming deep into the lagoon, but dies from his injuries. A year after the events of the first film, the Gill-man is shown to have survived and is captured by different scientists.

He is sent to the Ocean Harbor Oceanarium in Florida , and quickly becomes a huge tourist attraction. He is studied by an animal psychologist and his ichthyology student.

The psychologist's attempts at communicating with the Gill-man are hampered by his attraction to his student.

The Gill-man breaks free from his tank and escapes into the ocean. It is not long before he begins stalking the ichthyology student and kidnaps her at a boat party.

The Gill-man is soon tracked down by police and again gets shot multiple times, forcing him to flee into the ocean.

He again tries to swim away and supposedly dies from his wounds. After living for a short while in a Florida river, the Gill-man is found again, and after a vicious struggle, is accidentally immolated.

The Gill-man's injuries are so severe that his scales and gills fall off, forcing his captors to perform surgery on him to prevent suffocation.

X-rays on the creature show that he has begun developing a land animal's lung structure, so a tracheotomy is performed, opening an air passage to the lungs, transforming the Gill-man into an air-breathing, nearly human animal.

Dressing him in a suit made of sail cloth, the Gill-man is taken to a California estate, where he is imprisoned within an electric fence.

Ben Chapman portrayed the Gill-man for the majority of the film, which was shot at Universal City, California. He was unable to sit for the 14 hours of each day he wore it, and it overheated easily, so he stayed in the back lot's lake, and often requested to be hosed down.

He also could not see very well, which caused him to scrape Julie Adams' head against the wall when carrying her in the grotto scenes.

Ricou Browning played the Gill-Man in the underwater shots, which were filmed by the second unit in Wakulla Springs, Florida. Many of the top water scenes.

The film was novelized in , in paperback under the pseudonym of "Carl Dreadstone", as part of a short-lived series of books based on the classic Universal horror films.

The book was introduced by Ramsey Campbell, but not written by him. The novel offers a completely different Gill-man, who in this version of the story is gigantic, almost as big as the Rita herself, weighing in at 30 tons.

It is both coldblooded and warmblooded, is a hermaphrodite, and also possesses a long whip-like tail. The gigantic creature is dubbed "AA," for "Advanced Amphibian," by the expedition team members.

After slaying most of the team members, destroying a Sikorsky helicopter, and kidnapping Kay more than once, the creature is killed by the crew of a US Navy torpedo boat.

The novel also differs greatly with respect to the human characters. Only David Reed and Kay Lawrence remain the same. Mark Williams is a German named "Bruno Gebhardt," and dies not as a result from drowning but by the monster falling on him.

Thompson and Dr. Maia both die grisly deaths, whereas in the movie they survive; Maia is eaten by the monster, and Thompson is impaled on a long tree branch flung at him by the creature like a spear in an apparent nod to a deleted scene from Revenge of the Creature wherein the Gill-man killed a guard in this fashion.

In John Landis was keen on getting Arnold to direct a remake of the film, and Nigel Kneale was commissioned to write a screenplay. Audiences had never seen a full-body monster costume like that before.

Even the gills moved when it breathed. Watch Creature from the Black Lagoon on Amazon. Even before the numbers came in, and even before the original started shooting, work on the sequel was immediately underway.

Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! Coming up with a script for the sequel was much easier since the first time around Alland had pretty much just chopped his original treatment in half.

All the screenwriters had to do now was pick up the Kong thread again, only more directly this time. Arnold was once more brought on to direct, Universal sci-fi standby John Agar replaced Carlson as the well-meaning but misguided scientist, and Lori Nelson replaced Julie Adams as The Girl.

This they accomplish in the first 10 minutes. The Gill Man, understandably, is displeased with this turn of events and so, again by law, runs amok.

Or at least shuffles amok before being presumably but not decisively killed. With the Creature from the Black Lagoon-a Be seeing him again real soon After this intended lets him down Won't last five minutes with him around.

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