Revenge of the Creature
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| Revenge of the Creature | |
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| Directed by | Jack Arnold |
| Produced by | William Alland |
| Written by | William Alland (story) Martin Berkeley |
| Starring | John Agar Lori Nelson |
| Music by | Henry Mancini |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release date(s) | May 11, 1955 U.S. release |
| Running time | 82 min |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | The Creature from the Black Lagoon |
| Followed by | The Creature Walks Among Us |
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Revenge of the Creature is the first sequel to Creature from the Black Lagoon. The film is notable as being the only sequel to a 3-D film shot in 3-D as well. It is also the first screen role for Clint Eastwood, who appeared as an uncredited lab technician early in the film. He is shown having a discussion with the professor, accusing a test subject cat of eating a lab rat. However his character had in fact accidentally put the lab rat in his lab coat pocket. The movie was released May 11, 1955, in the United States. In 1997, it was aired as an episode of the comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000, which mocked the film.
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[edit] Plot
Having survived being riddled with bullets at the end of the first film, the Gill-man is captured and sent by the Ocean Harbor Oceanarium in Florida, where he is studied by animal psychologist Professor Clete Ferguson and ichthyology student Helen Dobson. Helen and Clete quickly begin to fall in love, much to the chagrin of Joe Hayes, the gill man's keeper. The gill man takes an instant liking to Helen (as he did to Kay in the first film), which severely hampers Professor Ferguson's efforts to communicate with him. Ultimately, the gill man escapes from his tank, killing Joe in the process, and flees to the open ocean. Unable to stop thinking about Helen, he soon begins to stalk her and Ferguson, ultimately abducting her from a seaside restaurant where the two are at a party. Clete tries to give chase, but the gill man escapes to the water with his captive. Clete and the local law enforcement must now try to track down Helen and her amphibious abductor.
[edit] Featured cast
| Actor | Role |
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| John Agar | Prof. Clete Ferguson |
| Lori Nelson | Helen Dobson |
| John Bromfield | Joe Hayes |
| Nestor Paiva | Lucas |
| Grandon Rhodes | Jackson Foster |
| Dave Willock | Lou Gibson |
| Robert Williams | George Johnson |
| Charles Cane | Police Captain |
| Robert F. Hoy | Charlie |
| Brett Halsey | Pete |
| Ricou Browning | Gillman (Underwater) |
| Tom Hennesy | Gillman (Land) |
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- Lou Gibson was the publicist for Ocean Harbor Oceanarium in Florida. A fairly thickheaded sort, Gibson foolishly advertised the addition of the Gill Man to the aquarium's menagerie before Joe Hayes and George Johnson had succeeded in capturing it, nearly ruining Ocean Harbor.
[edit] Trivia
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- A poster of this movie is seen in Back to the Future Part III, right after Doc Brown asks Marty who Clint Eastwood is. Marty replies "That's right; you haven't heard of him yet." This is an ironic coincidence, as Revenge of the Creature is Clint Eastwood's first feature film role; he appears, uncredited, as a lab technician.
- In Star Trek: Voyager's seventh-season episode "Repression", Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres watch part of the movie in the holodeck.
