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by seven different people. It's amazing all
the work that goes into making a movie.
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Anyway, Alland's at Universal,
making picture after picture,
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and he starts having ideas
for science-fiction movies.
:05:12
He had the idea for It Came from Outer
Space and asked Ray Bradbury to write it.
:05:16
Right about that same time,
maybe just a few weeks later,
:05:19
he himself wrote up and submitted to the
studio a story called The Sea Monster.
:05:24
It was just a three-page thing
where the first page told the story
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of that real-life
dinner conversation with Figueroa.
:05:30
Then he pitched the idea that he should
make a movie about that kind of monster.
:05:33
He wanted it to start with a scene
of a dinner conversation,
:05:36
like the one they'd had with Figueroa,
:05:39
then go on to show an expedition entering
an unexplored region of the Amazon,
:05:43
accompanied, of course,
by a beautiful blonde.
:05:46
The man-fish spots the blonde
and gets a crush on her, and -
:05:49
here's where Alland's imagination
ran away with him -
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there was a bad guy on the expedition
who wants to catch the creature,
:05:55
and he uses the girl as bait.
:05:57
Alland's memo on The Sea Monster
ended by suggesting one of two endings.
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In one, the girl is abducted, her boyfriend
rescues her and the monster gets killed.
:06:06
In the other, the creature is captured
and brought to civilisation,
:06:09
but it escapes and starts terrorising
a seaport on the South American coast.
:06:13
Alland wrote "Needless to say,
the monster's end is brought about
:06:16
by his desire for the blonde-haired girl
of the expedition."
:06:20
Well, you know what that is.
That's King Kong.
:06:22
Alland took the man-fish idea
from the conversation with Figueroa
:06:26
and he got most of the rest
of his original story idea from King Kong.
:06:30
When they made Creature, they used the
first ending where the creature is killed.
:06:35
But a few months later Alland made
a sequel, Revenge of the Creature,
:06:38
with the second ending.
The creature is brought to civilisation.
:06:41
It escapes and abducts the girl it loves.
:06:44
In Revenge of the Creature
it's a different girl, a different actress.
:06:47
In Creature the girl is Julie Adams
but in Revenge it's Lori Nelson,
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who, true to Alland's
original story, was a blonde.
:06:54
I interviewed Alland back around 1995,
two years before he passed away.
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At the time we talked I'd recently watched
Creature and Revenge back-to-back