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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."
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"Richard Carlson was in his trunks
with his face mask on his forehead,
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and in just the way people take off
their hats for the dead,
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he reached up
and took off his face mask."
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"He doffed it so seriously
that we all started to laugh,
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and it took a long time to come back
together again. It was just too absurd."
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"We had this wonderful guy who did
the clapboard, an old vaudevillian."
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"The day Whit Bissell's face
was bloodied by the creature,
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this fellow clapped the board,
and said to Whit..." - Julie said this
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out of the corner of her mouth -
"'How are you fixed for blades?"'
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Jack Arnold had the same attitude
about the gill-man as Arthur Ross.
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Arnold said that he set out to make
it a very sympathetic character.
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In one interview, Arnold said
the creature was violent
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"because he's provoked into it.
Inherent in the character
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is the statement that all of us
have violence within,
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and if provoked, are capable
of any bizarre retaliation."
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"If left alone and understood,
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that's when we overcome the primeval
urges that we are all cursed with."
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"Man's inhumanity to man means
not only inhumanity to his own kind,