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The Dennings lived on lobster
and sold lobster,
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and years later, when he and Ankers
looked back at that time,
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they realised those were
their happiest times.
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Then Denning got work playing Lucille
Ball's husband on the radio show
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that was later changed for TV
into I Love Lucy,
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he started starring in B-movies again
and he let the lobster business go.
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He died in 1998,
and Richard Carlson died in 1977.
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The Rita was a real boat out on
Park Lake on the Universal back lot,
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but some scenes on the Rita were
shot indoors on a duplicate Rita,
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on Universal's process stage.
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The scenes at the beginning, of
Richard Denning firing the spear gun,
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were shot indoors with the jungle
projected on a screen behind them.
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And this eerie nocturnal scene here was
shot on the process stage, at about 9am.
:45:47
The scenes in the creature's grotto were
also shot on a set on the process stage.
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Here's Ben Chapman,
about to climb onto the boat.
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Or, I should say, to try
to climb onto the boat.
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Once the suit got waterlogged
it weighed a ton,
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and even the young and strong
Chapman couldn't climb a rope
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with those slippery, wet gloves on
and his suit weighing him down.
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So what they did was get a big
stepladder and put it in the water,
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the top step just below the surface.
:46:16
Chapman's walking up the ladder as
he pretends to be climbing the rope.
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But the mistake is, when he
gets scared by the lantern
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and lets go of the rope, you can tell
that he's standing on something.
:46:27
When Chapman let go, he should've
dropped into the water like a rock,
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but he stood on the surface for a split
second and then fell off to the side.
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Creature was Jack Arnold's fourth
feature film and his third in 3-D.
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He'd directed It Came from Outer Space
:46:42
and murder drama The Glass Web
with Edward G Robinson.
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Jack Arnold was born on
a kitchen table in Connecticut,
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the son of young Russian immigrants.
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He was raised in New York and began
acting on Broadway in the 1930s.
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In the war, he was a cameraman for
documentary-maker Robert Flaherty.
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After his discharge
he made promotional films