Men capture the Creature from the Black Lagoon and make him an aquarium attraction, from which he escapes.Men capture the Creature from the Black Lagoon and make him an aquarium attraction, from which he escapes.Men capture the Creature from the Black Lagoon and make him an aquarium attraction, from which he escapes.
Charles Cane
- Captain of Police
- (as Charles R. Cane)
Loretta Agar
- Woman on Boat
- (uncredited)
Bill Baldwin
- Patrol Boat Dispatcher
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Jere Beery Sr.
- Photographer
- (uncredited)
Ricou Browning
- The Gill Man (In Water)
- (uncredited)
- …
Diane DeLaire
- Miss Abbott
- (uncredited)
Mike Doyle
- Cop
- (uncredited)
Clint Eastwood
- Jennings
- (uncredited)
Jack Gargan
- Skipper
- (uncredited)
Charles A. Gibbs
- Cop
- (uncredited)
Brett Halsey
- Pete
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaActor and stuntman Tom Hennesy almost drowned during filming. Playing the Creature, he grabs Helen Dobson (actually stuntwoman Ginger Stanley) on a pier and jumps with her into the water. The scene was shot at night, and when Hennesy and Stanley hit the water, they discovered it was full of jellyfish. In addition, a freak current started to pull them both down. Hennesy let go of Stanley, who swam to the surface, but Hennesy's inflexible Gill-Man costume had become waterlogged and too heavy to fight the current. He was rescued by two local boys who happened to be watching the filming from a nearby boat, and quickly raced over and pulled him in.
- GoofsThe scientist puts the Gill-Man into a saltwater tank filled with sharks, sea turtles etc. The Gill-man came from a freshwater lagoon in the Amazon.
- Crazy creditsin 3-D Horrorscope
- Alternate versionsThis movie was originally released in 3-D
- ConnectionsFeatured in Adventure Theater: Revenge of the Creature (1977)
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Underpowered sequel has a few good moments
Well, I've seen worse, lots worse. In its favor, the movie still features one of the coolest (and best implemented) monster designs ever to emerge from the old B&W films of that era, and the underwater photography is still quite arresting - apparently the actor in the creature costume was capable of holding his breath underwater for incredible amounts of time, and so the creature looks entirely at home and natural in the water.
Against it? A weak screen play where nothing interesting happens for almost 30 minutes in two different parts of the movie. Some of the worst movie dialog actors have ever been forced to utter (I can just imagine how John "I worked with John Wayne once" Agar must have died inside while trying to deliver some of his bon-mots.) A distinct lack of chemistry between Agar and Lori Nelson and a screen play that does nothing to give them anything to draw them together (except for the old "you are so "the only person around" problem).
Worse, the creature himself seems over-exposed here. Since the movie yanks him out of his creepy, isolated, backwater lagoon in the first 15 minutes, he loses the mystery and most of his menace from his original surroundings once he is moved to his bright, shiny Sea World. After that, he's just a good costume and a set of talons.
The guy who wrote "Keep Watching The Skies" remarked about "Revenge Of the Creature" that the only good things about this sequel are the elements they kept from the first one. I'd have to agree that this is about right - everything the film makers tried to add and expand on in the sequel just didn't really click.
Still, as a little kid, this would have been great fun.
Against it? A weak screen play where nothing interesting happens for almost 30 minutes in two different parts of the movie. Some of the worst movie dialog actors have ever been forced to utter (I can just imagine how John "I worked with John Wayne once" Agar must have died inside while trying to deliver some of his bon-mots.) A distinct lack of chemistry between Agar and Lori Nelson and a screen play that does nothing to give them anything to draw them together (except for the old "you are so "the only person around" problem).
Worse, the creature himself seems over-exposed here. Since the movie yanks him out of his creepy, isolated, backwater lagoon in the first 15 minutes, he loses the mystery and most of his menace from his original surroundings once he is moved to his bright, shiny Sea World. After that, he's just a good costume and a set of talons.
The guy who wrote "Keep Watching The Skies" remarked about "Revenge Of the Creature" that the only good things about this sequel are the elements they kept from the first one. I'd have to agree that this is about right - everything the film makers tried to add and expand on in the sequel just didn't really click.
Still, as a little kid, this would have been great fun.
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- lemon_magic
- Nov 19, 2009
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- Gross US & Canada
- $1,100,000
- Runtime1 hour 22 minutes
- Color
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