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Creature from the Black Lagoon is a 79-minute 1954 black-and-white science fiction film created and produced by Universal-International Pictures Inc. and directed by Jack Arnold and starring Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Antonio Moreno, Whit Bissell and Richard Denning. The Gill Man was played by Ben Chapman when on land and Ricou Browning in underwater scenes. It was filmed and originally released in 3-D for polarized 3D-glasses (and subsequently reissued in the inferior anaglyph format), and marketed as an A-film. It is considered a classic of the 1950s, and generated two sequels, Revenge of the Creature
(1955) and The Creature Walks Among Us
(1956).

Synopsis

A paleontology expedition along the Amazon River discovers the fabled Black Lagoon and its prehistoric menace, a fish-human hybrid. The explorers capture the creature after it kills their native guides, but it escapes. It then returns to kidnap the female research assistant (Adams) and carries her away to its lair where the others try to rescue her.

Remake

In the 1980s the director John Carpenter considered doing a remake, and a script was written by John Landis and Nigel Kneale, but the film ultimately went unproduced.

However, a remake from Universal Pictures is scheduled for a 2007 release.

Trivia

The film has also had an effect on paleontology. When Jenny Clack of the University of Cambridge discovered a fossil amphibian in what was once a fetid swamp, she named it Eucritta melanolimnetes, which is Greek for "the creature from the black lagoon." See: Clack (1998) Nature 394: 66-69; and Clack (2001) Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 92, 75-95.

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Movies - Creature from the Black Lagoon

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