Creature From the Black Lagoon

Creature From the Black Lagoon
by Jack Arnold

Creature From the Black Lagoon
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Actor: Antonio Moreno, Julie Adams, Nestor Paiva, Richard Carlson, Richard Denning
Director: Jack Arnold
Brand: Universal
Cinematographer: William E. Snyder
Editor: Ted J. Kent
Producer: William Alland
Writer: Arthur A. Ross
Writer: Harry Essex
Writer: Maurice Zimm
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: Pan & Scan, 1.33:1
Running Time: 79 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-07-24
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Universal Studios

Movie Reviews of Creature From the Black Lagoon

Movie Review: Creauture wants a mate
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie is one hour and nineteen minutes long and was released on March 5, 1954. The movie starts out with the creation of Earth and then goes right into the story. When a scientist, Dr. Carl Maia, discovers a skeletal hand with webbed fingers. He goes back to tell his friend Dr. David Reed and tells his co-scientists and a trip is launch to find more of this hand. Once in the Black Lagoon, they discover a creatue living there. The underwater shots are breath taking. I love it when Kay Lawrence is swimming in the lagoon and the Creature is trying to make a pass at her. The Creature From the Black is a great movie to own.

Summary of Creature From the Black Lagoon

Scientists drug and capture the creature, who becomes enamored with the head scientist's female assistant (Julie Adams). The lonely creature, "a living amphibious missing link," escapes and kidnaps the object of his affection. Chief scientist (Richard Carlson) then launches a crusade to rescue his assistant ans cast the ominous creature back to the depths from where he came. Well-acted and directed, and with Bud Westmore's brilliantly designed monster, Creature From The Black Lagoon remains an enduring tribute to the imaginative genius of its Hollywood creators.
Jack Arnold's horror classic The Creature from the Black Lagoon spawned not one but two iconic images: the web-footed humanoid gill-man with a hankering for women and the leggy, luscious Julia Adams, the object of his desire, swimming the lagoon in a luminous white bathing suit. Not since King Kong has the "beauty and the beast" theme been portrayed in such sexually charged (though chaste) terms. Arnold turns an effectively B-movie plot--a small expedition up a remote Amazon river captures a prehistoric amphibian man, who escapes to wreak havoc on the team and kidnap his bathing beauty--into a moody, stylish, low-budget feature. The jungle exteriors turn from exotic to treacherous when the creature blocks their passage and strands them in the wilds. Much of the film is shot underwater, where the murky dark is animated by shimmering shards of sunlight, creating images both lovely and alien (the studio-built sets of the creature's underground lair are far less naturalistic, but serve their purpose). As with most of Arnold's '50s genre films, he's saddled with a less than magnetic leading man (in this case the colorless but stalwart Richard Carlson) and a conventional script, but he overcomes such limitations by creating a vivid and sympathetic monster (helped immeasurably by a marvelous suit of scales and fins) and establishing a mood thick with atmosphere. The film was originally shot in 3-D. --Sean Axmaker

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