"An archaeologist digs up a fossil of a strange clawed and webbed hand in the Amazon jungle and persuades an expedition to return with him to find the rest of the fossil. There's no more! But in exploring the area, the team gradually realizes a living version of the fossil -- a swimming gill-man -- inhabits the waters. While good scientist David Reed (Carlson) tries to find out more about the creature, hard-edged scientist and financier Mark Williams (Denning) just wants to capture it, dead or alive, to wow the folks back home. The creature glimpses Reed's fiancee, Kay Lawrence (Adams, looking mighty terrific in short shorts and a custom-made one-piece swimsuit) and is willing to kill the men around her to get to her. Though portentous and cheesy (the creature's attack music gets pretty irritating, and the characters several times place the Devonian Period at only 150 million years ago), this 1954 horror movie is a classic, partly for a lot of fine underwater footage of scuba diving and Adams's unknowing "water ballet" with the creature beneath her, and partly because the creature's inherent pathos (Kong- and Frankenstein-like) is allowed to show through."
David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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Overall Review
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Plot
Composition of Movie Actual chase scenes or violence - 20% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 60% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
**Fantasy or Science Fiction?**
- science fiction story
Horror film?
Yes
Kind of Horror Story
- the monster chased me!
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- scientist
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/medium straight
Body type
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- introspective
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- Very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavy
Body type
- ample chest & buttocks (female)
Unclothed?
- very tight clothes
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- An "It".
Eccentric:
Yes
- wild
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
Earth setting:
- 20th Century (1950-1970)
Takes place on Earth?
Yes
Jungle?
Yes
Water?
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Tone of movie
- fearful
Check here if B&W
Yes
Any profanity?
- None
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
