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Somebody suggested
The Web and the Claw,
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and Alland, who had a lot of success
with It Came from Outer Space,
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recommended
It Came from Out of the Sea.
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The other titles he suggested were
The Demon of the Deep, The Sea Demon,
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The River of Terror and It Walks the Sea.
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When Alland heard in the 1980s that
Universal wanted to remake Creature,
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he felt that the studio should do
another sequel instead of a remake.
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Since the creature Alland had
originally envisioned was so romantic,
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he thought it should have a family -
a mate and one or two little ones.
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In Alland's story they were all removed
from the lagoon and taken to a lake
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on the estate of a
very wealthy family in the US.
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They communicate with the family
and a relationship develops,
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but unfortunately some heavies find out
about them and capture the children,
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and the mother
and father go out after them.
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Alland wrote it and tried
to make himself send it to Universal
:33:48
during all the many years that the studio
talked about a new Creature movie,
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but he never could bring himself
to submit it. Alland passed away in 1997.
:33:57
Director James C Havens was hired to
direct the underwater stuff in Creature.
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I'm sure Universal felt fortunate to have
gotten him and had confidence in him.
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He'd been in movies most of his life, and
been around boats and water all his life.
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I tried to track him down years ago
and finally found his phone number,
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but when I called, his wife told me
he had died several years before.
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But I had a nice conversation with her,
because she had married him in 1924.
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They were married 65½ years, so I figured
she might know something about him.
:34:26
She made him sound real interesting. He
started as an art director at MGM in 1924,
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the same year he got married, and
gradually he got into marine directing,
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which means he directed
the seagoing scenes for movies:
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Mutiny on the Bounty with Clark Gable,
:34:39
Captains Courageous with
Spencer Tracy, pictures like that.
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And Havens always owned a boat.
He had a sailboat first, with no engine,
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then he and his wife had ketches
and motorboats and all kinds of boats.
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He was a captain in the marines during
World War II, a demolition expert.
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When John Ford made the movie
Mogambo in East Africa,
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Havens shot the animal scenes
for Mogambo in Tanganyika.