Creature from the Black Lagoon
From the Amazon's forbidden depths came the Creature from the Black Lagoon
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 20 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 2, 2014
- Originally Released: 1954
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Richard Carlson & Julie Adams | |
Performer: | Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, Nestor Paiva, Whit Bissell, Syd Mason & Ricou Browning | |
Directed by | Jack Arnold | |
Edited by | Ted J. Kent | |
Screenwriting by | Harry Essex & Arthur Ross | |
Composition by | Herman Stein, Hans J. Salter & Henry Mancini | |
Produced by | William Alland | |
Director of Photography: | William E. Snyder |
Entertainment Reviews:
The underwater sequences were excellently shot by Havens, and the make-up for the half man, half fish was a masterful creation by Bud Westmore and Jack Keven.
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Film4
Rating: 8/10 --
This is a pulp classic with good reason.
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Fiction Machine
The routine story is mightily improved by Arnold's sure sense of atmospheric locations and by the often sympathetic portrait of the monster.
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Time Out
Rating: 2/5 --
The beats of the film are like overused sandpaper, too worn down and tattered to have more than a passing effect.
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Suite101.com
Rating: 3/4 --
Imbued with great atmosphere by director Jack Arnold, the film is genuinely frightening, but also elicits a certain amount of pathos for the creature.
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TV Guide
Rating: 3/4 --
What distinguished Jack Arnold's pictures from mutant spinoffs/knockoffs is even more imperative to sci-fi today than it was in 1954: wonderment.
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Slant Magazine
An obvious influence on JAWS' opening scene, this sexually suggestive chiller deals with an Amazonian scientific expedition that discovers a scaly Gill Man.
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Product Description:
A research team digging in the Amazon comes across the fossilized hand of a human fish creature. That night, the creature emerges from the swamp to kill. So begins one of the more recognizable classics of the science fiction and horror genres. Shot originally in 3-D, this has been a late-night TV hit for decades. The hand makes its way back to the oceanographic institute and soon conscientious scientist David Reed (Richard Carlson), greedy scientist Mark (Richard Cunha) and the beautiful girl they fight over, Kay (Julia Adams) are heading up the Amazon to find more fossils. Instead, of course, they run into the real thing, and terror begins. While Mark and David fight over what to do next, the creature falls in love with Kay, and makes plans of his own. Island diver Ricou Browning plays the creature in the spectacular underwater scenes, the highlight being a beautifully creepy scene of Kay going for a swim, while the smitten creature swims along below her, transfixed. The pounding, horrific score is credited to conductor Joseph Gerhsenson but was actually written by a team of composers, including Henry Mancini.
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- Sales Rank: 8,272
- UPC: 025192249600
- Shipping Weight: 0.16/lbs (approx)
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