Let’s go behind-the-scenes with the greatest Universal monster.
The Creature From The Black Lagoon (aka The Gill-man) is the best Universal monster. It just is. Deal with it. Now look at it. Just look:
This cannily staged still followed a reported mishap on the set of The Creature from the Black Lagoon in which Ben Chapman, in the sight-impaired Creature costume, bonked star Julia Adams’ head while carrying her through the on-set catacombs. What’s great about this pic is that everybody’s accounted for–that’s director Jack Arnold, appropriately concerned, at upper left, flanked by an uncharacteristically mellow Creature, co-star Richard Denning, star Richard Carlson and an unidentified studio nurse, all fixated on a seemingly serene Julia (sometimes Julie) Adams.
Speaking of fixated, I’ve been fixated on Ms. Adams since I was a kid and a few years ago got to act on it by casting...
The Creature From The Black Lagoon (aka The Gill-man) is the best Universal monster. It just is. Deal with it. Now look at it. Just look:
This cannily staged still followed a reported mishap on the set of The Creature from the Black Lagoon in which Ben Chapman, in the sight-impaired Creature costume, bonked star Julia Adams’ head while carrying her through the on-set catacombs. What’s great about this pic is that everybody’s accounted for–that’s director Jack Arnold, appropriately concerned, at upper left, flanked by an uncharacteristically mellow Creature, co-star Richard Denning, star Richard Carlson and an unidentified studio nurse, all fixated on a seemingly serene Julia (sometimes Julie) Adams.
Speaking of fixated, I’ve been fixated on Ms. Adams since I was a kid and a few years ago got to act on it by casting...
- 8/23/2011
- by Danny
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