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and Nigel Kneale wrote the screenplay,
but this Creature was never made.
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Universal decided to put their money
behind Jaws 3-D instead.
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Jack Arnold died in 1992.
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I never understood how they could dive
down, down, down to the creature's lair
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and wind up in a cave that's at
sea level, with a beach entrance.
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You'd also think it would be as dark
as the ace of spades in there.
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This hand-on-the-shoulder
gimmick is a cliché today,
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but it still worked in 1954.
It got a great reaction.
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Ernest Nims remembered a scene in
It Came from Outer Space
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where Barbara Rush did the same thing
to Carlson - came up and touched him.
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It worked there, so Nims suggested they
do it in Creature. Again it got a scream.
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People who saw Creature at a preview
mentioned it on their comment cards.
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When something worked,
Universal never let go.
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They used it in Tarantula,
with John Agar on the receiving end,
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The Deadly Mantis with Craig Stevens,
Cult of the Cobra with David Janssen,
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Monster on the Campus
with Joanna Moore,
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right down the line
for the rest of the decade.
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One of the creature's habits
was to pick guys up and throw them.
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He did it to the college student
in Revenge of the Creature,
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and he did it to Jeff Morrow
at the end of Creature Walks Among Us.
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The plan here was for the creature
to pick Zee up and throw him.
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In the script, Zee would be thrown
into the camera for the 3-D effect.
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The actor, Bernie Gozier, was on a wire,
and he would be pulled up into the air,
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once Ben Chapman grabbed him
and pretended to lift him.
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They tried it, and twice the wire broke.
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Finally, Jack Arnold decided to have
the creature choke the guy instead.
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But if you watch close enough, you
can see in this shot coming up here
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that the creature does
reach down for the guy's leg.
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They shot that before they found out
the wire gag wasn't going to work.
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Julie Adams says Creature was very
pleasant and they all laughed a lot.
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And she particularly liked this scene here.
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"We were on the beach, doing the scene
where the creature has killed a native."
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"We were looking down at the body
and we were all very still."