Revenge of the Creature (1955)

Director:

Jack Arnold

Writers:

Martin Berkeley (screenplay)
William Alland (story)

Release Date:

22 July 1955 (Finland)

Genre:

Horror | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Weird Monster Escapes! Terror Seizes City! ...a woman's beauty the lure for his dangerous desires!

Plot:

The Creature from the Black Lagoon is back! This time he's captured by scientists and transported to an aquarium in south Florida...

Plot Keywords:

Creature | Scientist | Florida | Aquarium | Female Scientist

Cast

John Agar	...	Prof. Clete Ferguson
Lori Nelson	...	Helen Dobson
John Bromfield	...	Joe Hayes
Nestor Paiva	...	Lucas
Grandon Rhodes	...	Jackson Foster
Dave Willock	...	Lou Gibson
Robert Williams	...	George Johnson (as Robert B. Williams)
Charles Cane	...	Police Captain (as Charles R. Cane)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Loretta Agar	...	Woman on Boat (uncredited)
Jere Beery Sr.	...	Photographer (uncredited)
Ricou Browning	...	The Gill Man - In Water / Lab Technician (uncredited)
Diane DeLaire	...	Miss Abbott (uncredited)
Mike Doyle	...	Cop (uncredited)
Clint Eastwood	...	Jennings (uncredited)
Jack Gargan	...	Skipper (uncredited)
Charles Gibb	...	Cop (uncredited)
Brett Halsey	...	Pete (uncredited)
Don C. Harvey	...	Mac (uncredited)
Tom Hennesy	...	The Gill Man (on land) / Marineland Diver (uncredited)
Don House	...	Minor Role (uncredited)
Robert F. Hoy	...	Charlie (uncredited)
Ned Le Fevre	...	Newscaster (uncredited)
Sydney Mason	...	Police Announcer (uncredited)
Robert Nelson	...	Dr. McCuller (uncredited)
Patricia Powers	...	Girl in Convertible (uncredited)
Bert Stevens	...	Search Party Member (uncredited)
Charles Victor	...	Cop (uncredited)
Bob Wehling	...	Joe (uncredited)

Directed by
Jack Arnold

Writing credits
Martin Berkeley		(screenplay)
William Alland		(story)

Produced by
William Alland	....	producer

Original Music by
William Lava		(uncredited)
Herman Stein		(uncredited)

Cinematography by
Scotty Welbourne		(director of photography) (as Charles S. Welbourne)

Film Editing by
Paul Weatherwax

Art Direction by
Alexander Golitzen
Alfred Sweeney

Set Decoration by
Russell A. Gausman
Julia Heron

Costume Design by
Jay A. Morley Jr.		(gowns)

Makeup Department
Joan St. Oegger	....	hair stylist
Bud Westmore	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Edward Dodds	....	unit production manager (uncredited)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Fred Frank	....	assistant director

Sound Department
Jack A. Bolger Jr.	....	sound (as Jack Bolger)
Leslie I. Carey	....	sound
Ben Hendricks	....	sound editor (uncredited)
Albert E. Kennedy	....	sound editor (uncredited)

Stunts
Ginger Stanley	....	underwater stunts (uncredited)

Music Department
Joseph Gershenson	....	music supervisor
Henry Mancini	....	composer: stock music (uncredited)
Milton Rosen	....	composer: stock music (uncredited)
Hans J. Salter	....	composer: stock music (uncredited)
Frank Skinner	....	composer: stock music (uncredited)

Other crew
Jack Kevan	....	creature design

Production Companies

• Universal International Pictures (UI)

Distributors

• Universal Pictures (1955) (USA) (theatrical)
• Universal Pictures (1955) (West Germany) (theatrical)
• Universal International Pictures (UI) (1955) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Koch Media (2009) (Germany) (DVD)
• MCA/Universal Home Video (????) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)
• MCA/Universal Home Video (USA) (VHS)

Other Companies

• Marineland  we gratefully acknowledge the generous cooperation extended to us by: where scenes for this production were photographed (as The Marine Studios of Marineland, Florida)

Also Known As:

Runtime:

82 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

2.00 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

Finland:K-12 | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (PCA #17220) | USA:Unrated (video rating) | West Germany:16 | Australia:PG

Filming Locations:

Jacksonville, Florida, USA

Company:

Universal International Pictures (UI)

Trivia:

For this film, Ricou Browning wore a creature head intended for John Wayan, who had originally been hired to play the creature in this sequel. The creature suit had to be cut down to fit Browning.

Goofs:

Factual errors: When Professor Ferguson is informed of the capture of the creature, his colleague refers to it as a "creature from the Devonian era" and something that should have "...died out a quarter of a million years ago." The Devonian is a geologic period, not an era (which marked the emergence and divergence of fish species and land plants, and, near its end, the first animals to venture onto land), and lasted from 416 million years ago to the beginning of the Carboniferous Period, 359 million years ago. As with the first Creature movie, the "scientists" not only do not know the terminology of geologic history, but their chronology is all wrong.

Quotes:

Lab Technician:I've lost my white mouse.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in A Night at the Movies: The Horrors of Stephen King (2011) (TV)

I Actually Liked This Better Than The First

The Creature from the Black Lagoon is back! This time he's captured by scientists and transported to an aquarium in south Florida...

Jack Arnold returns as director, and he has brought Ricou Browning back as the creature. 1950s science fiction lead John Agar is also here, making this a pretty solid sequel. (And who can be opposed to a film with Clint Eastwood in it?)

I guess a lot of people harp on this film. Mike Mayo calls it "insipid" and "a joke." Howard Maxford calls it "run-down". Well, I like it better than the original. I really, truly do. I feel more happens and the plot is more developed. I would have to watch both again to make a definitive statement, but I watched them both back to back and was bored by the first compared to the second.