Creature from the Black Lagoon
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:08:00
On the expedition up the Amazon
are Dr Reed, Ted, Kay,

:08:04
Kay's doting companion Winnie,
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and an explorer named Carl Sloan,
who's got "bad guy" written all over him.

:08:09
The explorers set traps for the Pisces
Man, but it avoids them and weeks go by.

:08:13
Sloan finally gets fed up,
chloroforms Kay and places her on a raft,

:08:17
using her as bait for the Pisces Man.
The Pisces Man appears.

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It has a "huge, fascinating,
unbelievable head,

:08:23
with a throat sac like a frog's
and scalloped gills

:08:26
that, at a distance, resemble
the bobbed hair of a knight of old".

:08:30
The Pisces Man kills Sloan
and gets away with Kay,

:08:33
but Ted follows them to the monster's
grotto and subdues the Pisces Man

:08:36
by slapping a wrestling hold on it
until it passes out.

:08:39
Kay feels sorry for the Pisces Man,
which is locked in a tank

:08:43
and brought back to civilisation. The tank
is taken off the boat and put on a plane.

:08:47
Kay sneaks onto the plane and unlocks
the tank so the Pisces Man can escape.

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The Pisces Man "comes
slowly toward her, looms over her,

:08:55
and touches the whiteness
of her throat, ever so gently."

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"Then, with his eyes still on her,
he leaves the plane."

:09:01
The military throws out a dragnet, but the
Pisces Man is able to elude the searchers.

:09:05
It climbs through a window into a house
to hide, sees a small child sleeping,

:09:09
and adjusts the kid's blanket
before it leaves.

:09:12
But when the Pisces Man tries to get
back in the water by crossing a beach,

:09:15
Dr Reed shoots him
over and over and over.

:09:17
Reed yells "If I can't have him alive,
I'll have him dead."

:09:20
The Pisces Man crawls into the water,
which instantly starts churning

:09:23
because piranha are attacking it. Kay
dumps Dr Reed and flies back with Ted.

:09:29
The Zimm treatment is too much like
King Kong, apart from all its other flaws.

:09:34
But when it was discussed
in a December 1952 memo,

:09:37
the memo writer, who didn't sign a name,
wrote that it could be developed into

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"a very fine horror movie".
The memo writer, whoever he was,

:09:45
also mentions discussing the script with
Alland, who said he'd change the ending

:09:49
"to provide a means of possibly
continuing this into sequels

:09:52
by keeping the monster alive or leaving
his fate in doubt at the end of the picture".

:09:57
So as early as 1952, plans were being
made to turn Black Lagoon into a series.


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