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In one, the girl is abducted, her boyfriend
rescues her and the monster gets killed.
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In the other, the creature is captured
and brought to civilisation,
:06:09
but it escapes and starts terrorising
a seaport on the South American coast.
:06:13
Alland wrote "Needless to say,
the monster's end is brought about
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by his desire for the blonde-haired girl
of the expedition."
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Well, you know what that is.
That's King Kong.
:06:22
Alland took the man-fish idea
from the conversation with Figueroa
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and he got most of the rest
of his original story idea from King Kong.
:06:30
When they made Creature, they used the
first ending where the creature is killed.
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But a few months later Alland made
a sequel, Revenge of the Creature,
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with the second ending.
The creature is brought to civilisation.
:06:41
It escapes and abducts the girl it loves.
:06:44
In Revenge of the Creature
it's a different girl, a different actress.
:06:47
In Creature the girl is Julie Adams
but in Revenge it's Lori Nelson,
:06:50
who, true to Alland's
original story, was a blonde.
:06:54
I interviewed Alland back around 1995,
two years before he passed away.
:06:57
At the time we talked I'd recently watched
Creature and Revenge back-to-back
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and realised for the first time that the
story was King Kong set on the water.
:07:06
I asked Alland if he got ideas from King
Kong. He immediately started laughing.
:07:10
He said he did, absolutely,
that that was the whole idea, his idea,
:07:13
to redo King Kong
but with a water monster.
:07:16
The first writer Alland assigned
to the movie was Maurice Zimm,
:07:19
who turned in a 59-page draft, titled
Black Lagoon in early December, 1952.
:07:23
It's sufficiently different
from the movie to mention here.
:07:26
In this draft, Dr Lyman Reed,
an undersea explorer,
:07:29
risks his life in various underwater
adventures to raise money
:07:32
to form an expedition and search
the Amazon for the Pisces Man,
:07:35
a man-fish that is reported to live there.
:07:40
We're looking now, by the way, at footage
shot at the Hermosa Beach Aquarium.
:07:44
Julie Adams and a crew
went there during preproduction.
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Dr Reed's girlfriend, Kay, an heiress,
puts up the money herself,
:07:50
but insists on going along
with the expedition.
:07:53
Unbeknownst to Kay, her guardian
hires an adventurer named Ted Clayton
:07:56
to find a way to also join the expedition
and secretly watch over her.