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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
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pumped the gills. That way, it looked
like the gasping made the gills flare out.
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Julie Adams is replaced here
by stuntwoman Polly Burson,
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who got swept off the boat
by Ben Chapman.
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Now a scene shot in Florida,
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Ricou Browning swimming underwater
with Ginger Stanley in his arms.
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That was our next-to-last shot at Ricou.
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From now on, it'll be Ben Chapman
up until the last shot of the movie.
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Ricou was recently profiled in People
magazine in connection with Creature.
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But he's more proud of a lot of
the other things he's done.
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He writes, he's directed,
he created the TV series Flipper,
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he directed the underwater parts
of Thunderball, and to him,
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Creature was just another movie,
just another job.
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Ben Chapman, on the other hand,
revels in having played the gill-man,
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and he regularly appears at
sci-fi cons and autograph shows.
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He's also given a lot of thought to
what made the gill-man so popular.
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Here's some music from The Wolf Man
as Carlson climbs out of the water.
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Chapman says that if you look back
at all the thrillers Universal made,
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The Phantom, Hunchback, Frankenstein,
Dracula, The Mummy and Creature: