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pumped the gills. That way, it looked
like the gasping made the gills flare out.
1:12:08
Julie Adams is replaced here
by stuntwoman Polly Burson,
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who got swept off the boat
by Ben Chapman.
1:12:16
Now a scene shot in Florida,
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Ricou Browning swimming underwater
with Ginger Stanley in his arms.
1:12:22
That was our next-to-last shot at Ricou.
1:12:24
From now on, it'll be Ben Chapman
up until the last shot of the movie.
1:12:27
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.
1:12:34
He writes, he's directed,
he created the TV series Flipper,
1:12:37
he directed the underwater parts
of Thunderball, and to him,
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Creature was just another movie,
just another job.
1:12:43
Ben Chapman, on the other hand,
revels in having played the gill-man,
1:12:46
and he regularly appears at
sci-fi cons and autograph shows.
1:12:49
He's also given a lot of thought to
what made the gill-man so popular.
1:12:52
Here's some music from The Wolf Man
as Carlson climbs out of the water.
1:12:56
Chapman says that if you look back
at all the thrillers Universal made,
1:12:59
The Phantom, Hunchback, Frankenstein,
Dracula, The Mummy and Creature:
1:13:03
"They were all very successful.
And why?"
1:13:06
"If you'll think about it,
they're all Beauty and the Beast."
1:13:09
"The phantom was in love with
the girl, the hunchback loved Esmeralda,
1:13:12
the mummy had his princess.
They would never hurt the girl,
1:13:15
only the people that got in their way. The
gill-man was the same type of monster."
1:13:20
"After that, of course, movies
changed, Universal changed,
1:13:22
stories changed,
people's attitudes changed,
1:13:26
and now the studios are not making
the quality thrillers they made before."
1:13:29
"Now it's all blood and gore.
In the old days, these Universal pictures
1:13:33
were all well done, and the best of
'em were all Beauty and the Beast."
1:13:36
"My pride is that I was the original
creature from the Black Lagoon."
1:13:40
These cave scenes were shot
on the process stage at Universal.
1:13:43
The cave walls were made of plaster,
but they were still hard as a rock.
1:13:47
When Chapman carried Adams there,
he was wearing the medium-sized eyes,
1:13:51
and he couldn't see very well,
and the cave was dark and narrow.
1:13:54
He banged her head against the rock wall.
She let out a yelp, and she was hurt.
1:13:58
Not badly, but she had a cut
or a bruise on her forehead,