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''Creature from the Black Lagoon'' is a 1954 black-and-white Science Fiction Film directed by Jack Arnold , and starring Richard Carlson , Julia Adams , Richard Denning , Antonio Moreno , and Whit Bissell . First release was March 5 , 1954 , in the United States. It was filmed and originally released in 3-D for polarized 3D-glasses (and subsequently reissued in the inferior Anaglyph format), and marketed as an A-film . It is considered a classic of the 1950s, and generated two sequels, '' Revenge Of The Creature '' (1955) and '' The Creature Walks Among Us '' (1956). The "Gill Man" was played by Ben Chapman when on land and Ricou Browning in underwater scenes. Synopsis A paleontology expedition along the Amazon River discovers the fabled Black Lagoon and its prehistoric menace, a fish-human hybrid. The scientists capture the creature after it kills their native guides, but it escapes. It then returns to kidnap the female research assistant (Adams) and carries her away to its lair where the others try to rescue her. REMAKE In the 1980s, director John Carpenter considered doing a remake, and a script was written by John Landis and Nigel Kneale , but the film ultimately went unproduced. However, a remake from Universal Pictures is now scheduled for a 2007 release. TRIVIA
:: IPDB listing for ''Creature from the Black Lagoon''
::see: Clack (1998) Nature 394: 66-69; and Clack (2001) Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 92, 75-95. EXTERNAL LINKS
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