Creature From The Black Lagoon
Release: 1954 Director: Jack Arnold Production Company: Universal Pictures Notable Cast: Richard Carlson as David Reed Julie Adams as Kay Lawrence Richard Denning as Mark Williams Plot: A strange fossil discovery leads to an expedition to try and find the rest of the remains. The crew of the ship soon run into the Gill-Man who is a bigger menace than they were ready for. The Monster: The Gill-Man is a true icon of Hollywood monsters. He's right up there with Dracula, Frankenstein , Jason, etc as being one of the most recognizable Hollywood creatures of all time. Any sort of collection of famous monsters will have the Gill-man in it. The Gill-Man himself appears to be fairly strong and can obviously breathe under water. He also seems to possess about human level intelligence. His scaly skin also seems to give him some level of invulnerability. He takes a harpoon shot at one point and mostly shrugs it off. Thoughts: This wasn't on my list for movies I ...