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This is supposed to be dramatic. Julie
Adams is so glad Richard Carlson is safe,
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but it's so obvious she doesn't wanna get
wet, I'm sure because the water was cold.
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It was cold at night. Denning remembers
shooting in the lake one October night.
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They were out in the water
and they were tired,
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and a prop man brought them brandy
to keep them from freezing to death.
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"It worked great
and we were going fine,
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then we wrap it up and go
to the dressing rooms."
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"They're warm, and all of a sudden..." -
Denning starts slurring his words -
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"that brandy hit us like a sledgehammer."
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"But out in the cold and the wet
and wind, it didn't bother us at all."
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Ricou Browning had
the same thing happen.
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Everybody was trying to be nice,
kept bringing him brandy,
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and pretty soon,
they had a drunken creature.
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So Ricou figured he'd better cut that out.
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I think the idea of a drunken
creature is kinda cute.
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Julie Adams has a soft spot in her
heart for the creature. She told me:
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"The creature scared people,
but there was a sweetness about it."
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"In the real classics, there always
is that compassion for the monster."
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"I think maybe it touches something
in ourselves, maybe the darker parts,
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that long to be loved and think
they really can't ever be loved."
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"It strikes a chord. That's what
Creature from the Black Lagoon did."
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We're about to get a good look
at the creature's gills pulsating.
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Rubber tubes came into
the back of Ben Chapman's helmet,
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through the dorsal fin, and ran to the gills,
where there were balloons or air pockets.
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On the end of the hose, there was
a guy off camera with a hand pump.
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Chapman and this other fellow
worked together to create the effect.
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Chapman would open his mouth and
gasp at the same time that the pump guy