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It's funny to think of Henry Mancini
writing music for monster movies,
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and without credit at that,
but this was years before Peter Gunn
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and his several Academy Awards
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for Breakfast At Tiffany's and "Moon
River" and Days of Wine and Roses.
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He also won over 20 Grammies.
And in 1990, David Schecter tells me,
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Mancini put out a CD called
Mancini In Surround,
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including music he wrote for Creature,
an excellent piece "Monster Gets Mark".
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You'll hear it during the scene where
the creature kills Richard Denning.
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Mancini reorchestrated
and slightly recomposed the cues,
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and he conducted them
at a much more leisurely pace,
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but it was still clearly Creature music.
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Mancini also contributed to
It Came from Outer Space
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and Tarantula, and lots
of other golden oldies.
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Whit Bissell strikes the creature
with a lantern, setting him afire.
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They got a stunt man named Al Wyatt,
Rock Hudson's stunt man,
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and they put him in a fire suit
and set him on fire.
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They took that footage and
superimposed it over this shot
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of Ben Chapman, of the creature, waving
his arms and pretending to be on fire.
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Bob Burns tells me that in 3-D,
the scene didn't work.
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He says Wyatt must've been closer to
the 3-D camera when he did his part
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than Chapman was
when he did his scene.
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Burns says in 3-D, the creature and the
fire seem to be different distances away.
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Did you notice the way
Antonio Moreno gave the impression
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he was about to cover
Whit Bissell, like he was dead,
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and then he put the sheet down again?
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I don't know if that was on purpose
or not, but it was a great fake-out.
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Tough as Browning and Chapman had it,
the man who played the gill-man
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in Revenge of the Creature
probably had it even tougher.
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The gill-man suits for Ricou and Ben
were made in multiple pieces,