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"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,
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the mummy had his princess.
They would never hurt the girl,
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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,
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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
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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,
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so a nurse had to come and look at it.
1:14:03
There's a shot of Adams having
a bandage put on her head by the nurse,
1:14:07
and around her are Jack Arnold,
Richard Denning, Richard Carlson,
1:14:10
and, squatting down and looking
very concerned, the creature.
1:14:14
I like this bit here of Carlson
getting lifted in the air.
1:14:17
When the creature puts him down,
notice the claw marks on Carlson.
1:14:21
He's got puncture wounds from
the creature's thumbs on his sides,
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and he's got gashes from
the creature's other eight fingers
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on the sides of his back.
1:14:34
In the Maurice Zimm
treatment, Black Lagoon,
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the gill-man is shot up
and then devoured by piranha.
1:14:39
A later draft ended with Reed killing the
gill-man on the boat deck with an axe:
1:14:44
"The axe protruding from
the neck of the gill-man,
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apparently embedded there,
cutting the spinal cord."
1:14:49
"As the gill-man falls, the axe
is pulled from Reed's grasp."
1:14:52
"Camera slowly pulls back to
a full shot. No one moves or speaks."
1:14:57
A conclusive ending like that wouldn't do.
1:14:59
Jack Arnold told an interviewer that
the gill-man wasn't destroyed because