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He went around scouting locations in a
Land Rover during the Mau Mau rebellion.
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She made him sound like a real man's
man, a guy who could handle anything,
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which I'm sure he was.
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So it was so funny, to me anyway, to hear
what happened to him during Creature.
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Havens goes to Florida for the underwater
scenes and Welbourne's there to film 'em.
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Days pass, and Alland gets a phone call
from the Florida production manager,
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who says "You'd better come here,
all hell's breaking loose."
:35:25
"Havens and Welbourne,
they're not getting along."
:35:28
Anyway, Alland hears that all hell
is breaking loose, so he goes to Florida.
:35:31
What's happening is
Havens is afraid to go underwater.
:35:35
Hang on a second. This is sort of an odd
shot here, this blurry shot of the hand,
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followed by the gill-man swimming away
in another hard-to-see shot.
:35:43
I think these shots should have preceded
our first good look at the gill-man.
:35:47
They'd have made great teaser shots.
:35:49
I asked Mrs Havens if her husband
liked to dive, and she said "No, no."
:35:52
"He didn't like going under the water at
all." So during the making of Creature,
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the best Havens could do was float on the
surface with a face mask and a snorkel,
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and look down 50ft or 60ft or whatever,
and try to figure out what was going on.
:36:05
He sketched out the way
he wanted each shot to be shot,
:36:08
but Welbourne said
he couldn't work that way.
:36:10
Havens, floating on the surface,
couldn't see what was at the bottom,
:36:14
and sketched things
that weren't even there,
:36:16
and Welbourne said all he could do was
take advantage of what was down there.
:36:21
So Bill Alland's idea was,
he'd put on scuba gear and he'd go down,
:36:24
and maybe that would kind of
shame Havens into doing it.
:36:27
So Alland dove down 50 feet, where
they had underwater light platforms
:36:31
and all kinds of stuff set up, and watched
Scotty Welbourne doing his thing.
:36:35
Then Alland came up and told Havens
"Either you go down there,
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see what he's doing and work with him,
or just get out of the way."
:36:41
And Havens said OK, fine,
he'd just get out of the way.
:36:44
So, according to Alland,
even though the credits say
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"Underwater sequences
directed by James C Havens",
:36:50
Alland says "He didn't have a damn thing
to do with what went on underwater."
:36:54
"Scotty Welbourne directed
the underwater stuff."
:36:57
Ricou Browning also remembers
the situation with Havens,