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Whit Bissell strikes the creature
with a lantern, setting him afire.
:54:05
They got a stunt man named Al Wyatt,
Rock Hudson's stunt man,
:54:09
and they put him in a fire suit
and set him on fire.
:54:11
They took that footage and
superimposed it over this shot
:54:14
of Ben Chapman, of the creature, waving
his arms and pretending to be on fire.
:54:19
Bob Burns tells me that in 3-D,
the scene didn't work.
:54:21
He says Wyatt must've been closer to
the 3-D camera when he did his part
:54:25
than Chapman was
when he did his scene.
:54:27
Burns says in 3-D, the creature and the
fire seem to be different distances away.
:54:40
Did you notice the way
Antonio Moreno gave the impression
:54:43
he was about to cover
Whit Bissell, like he was dead,
:54:46
and then he put the sheet down again?
:54:48
I don't know if that was on purpose
or not, but it was a great fake-out.
:54:51
Tough as Browning and Chapman had it,
the man who played the gill-man
:54:55
in Revenge of the Creature
probably had it even tougher.
:54:58
The gill-man suits for Ricou and Ben
were made in multiple pieces,
:55:02
and had what are called flex gaps
near the elbows, shoulders and knees,
:55:05
which gave Ricou and Ben a little
freedom and mobility when they moved.
:55:09
But the suit worn by stunt man
Tom Hennesy in Revenge of the Creature
:55:12
was a moulded one-piece bodysuit,
:55:14
which Bob Burns, who's had
to wear suits like that in his time,
:55:18
tells me are not made to flex, give you
no freedom, and are very uncomfortable.
:55:22
There were two sequels to Creature:
Revenge of the Creature, in 1954,
:55:26
and The Creature Walks Among Us,
made in 1955.
:55:29
Ricou Browning played
the underwater gill-man in all three.
:55:32
In Revenge, the land gill-man
was played by Tom Hennesy,
:55:34
and in Creature Walks, where the
creature is seriously burned in a fire,
:55:38
the smooth-skinned gill-man
was played by actor Don Megowan.
:55:42
The only name listed in the credits
for make-up is Bud Westmore,
:55:45
but he was just head of the make-up
department. He did little of the work.
:55:48
He liked to make out he did, he was
a self-promoter and a publicity hound,
:55:51
and for most every Universal monster
movie there are a bunch of photos
:55:55
of Westmore painstakingly
working on the thing -
:55:57
Westmore in his white shirt
and tie and his sweater.