Creature From The Black Lagoon: A Symphony Of Film Music By Hans J. Salter (Film Score Anthology) [Soundtrack]

creature from the black lagoon: a symphony of film music by hans j. salter (film score anthology) [soundtrack]

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Jack Arnold's horror classic The Creature from the Black Lagoon spawned not one but two iconic images: the web-footed humanoid gill-man with a hankering for women and the leggy, luscious Julia Adams, the object of his desire, swimming the lagoon in a luminous white bathing suit. Not since King Kong has the "beauty and the beast" theme been portrayed in such sexually charged (though chaste) terms. Arnold turns an effectively B-movie plot--a small expedition up a remote Amazon river captures a prehistoric amphibian man, who escapes to wreak havoc on the team and kidnap his bathing beauty--into a moody, stylish, low-budget feature. The jungle exteriors turn from exotic to treacherous when the creature blocks their passage and strands them in the wilds. Much of the film is shot underwater, where the murky dark is animated by shimmering shards of sunlight, creating images both lovely and alien (the studio-built sets of the creature's underground lair are far less naturalistic, but serve their purpose). As with most of Arnold's '50s genre films, he's saddled with a less than magnetic leading man (in this case the colorless but stalwart Richard Carlson) and a conventional script, but he overcomes such limitations by creating a vivid and sympathetic monster (helped immeasurably by a marvelous suit of scales and fins) and establishing a mood thick with atmosphere. The film was originally shot in 3-D. --Sean Axmaker

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Creature From The Black Lagoon: A Symphony Of Film Music By Hans J. Salter (Film Score Anthology) [Soundtrack]

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3D is technically possible
Best monster movie
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Julia Adams as the Beauty.
In the beginning.......

Creature From The Black Lagoon: A Symphony Of Film Music By Hans J. Salter (Film Score Anthology)
Hans J. Salter
Manufacturer: Intrada Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 1994-05-24

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Customer Reviews:

3D is technically possible.......2007-05-27

It is not true that a special projecting procedure is necessary to view this film in 3D. It was broadcast once in the 80ies in German TV and 3D glasses were given out for free at the newsstands the days before. Maybe the effect is not as good as watching it in a cinema, but I still remember very good how I saw air bubbles emerging out of the ground in front of me sitting in my armchair :) So I will definitely wait for the 3D version on DVD!

Best monster movie.......2007-02-16

This is a classic. A monster movie that you sympathise more with the monster than with anybody else. Kind of in the footsteps ofthe original King Kong (not the remakes). The photography is superb and so is the directing. This is a must see and must have movie so you can watch it again!!

On a Tributary of the Amazon.......2006-10-16

We had the pleasure of seeing this the other night in San Francisco at the Castro Theater, in dual projection 3-D against a silver screen. Flimsy little glasses were provided to help blend the images poppped out onto the screen by the twin projectors. It must have cost a mint just to stage this show, but happily the event was packed with like minded Creature lovers and everyone cheered, ooeh and aahed as soon as the Brazilian diggers uncover, in a solid block of limestone, the skeletonized hand of a long dead Creature, its webbed fingers beckoning right out over the audience's heads! It was a powerful punch to the solar plexus and a reminder that even archaeology has its thrills.

The 3-D effects are more subtle than you'd think. There's nothing else, for example, as in your face as the ping pong ball that jumps repeatedly off the screen in HOUSE OF WAX. Here, director Jack Arnold seems to be trying really hard to give flesh and blood to his two pprotagonists, Richard Carlson and Richard Denning, showing them off as the brain and the emotions, while Julie Adams plays sensitively and sympathetically to both. Is she sort of trying to figure out which side of the bread her butter's on? The doctor tells her that she repaid any debt she owed Richard Carlson long ago--she doesn't owe him anything anymore her playing Pygmalion to her untutored Galatea.

So in a way it's hard to tell upfront which man she's going to wind up with. The Creature I found sympathetic in a way, but I think the performance must be docked a wee bit because of the different actors playing the part. Up on top it's the sensitive, tortured Ben Chapman, while down below, Ricou Browning's frisky balletic style. like Harold Land underwater, makes him seem more fancy free.

To top it off Julie Adams and Ben Chapman were there, discussing the complex dynamic of the "beauty and the beast" scenario producer William Alland dreamed up on a South American jaunt with Orson Welles. Miss Adams has got to be in her 70s surely, and yet she is still heart-stoppingly gorgeous and lovely. She spoke to anyone who approached her, seemingly grateful to the fans who have kept the "Creature from the Black Lagoon," and the woman he loved, alive in cultural memory for more than fifty years now. It was an enchanted evening--in dual projection 3-D no less.

Julia Adams as the Beauty........2006-02-01

The Creature has a good reason for wanting Julia Adams for his own! She wears this hot bikini thoughout most of the movie, revealing much of her legs and figure. A dicription of her throughout the movie would be, Long black beautiful hair, small tight frilly bikini revealing her breast figure, most of back is naked , and so are shoulders. The bathing suit comes up short on her hips revealing both legs. Barefoot throughout the whole movie. You might say half naked! If you are looking for a movie with true American beauty, watch Julia Adams in {The Creature From the Black Lagoon}

In the beginning..............2006-01-30

The 1954 classic available for your own collection! This is more than just another talkie. This is sort of a peice of cinema history. The classic beauty and the beast story is told in a wonderul way! With great underwater shots and fairly good special effects, this is a wonderful item for anyone to own. I think what I liked most about it is that it was a little bit different than all the other monster flicks. Beacuse you really feel sorry for the Creature when he gets shot. I think one of my favorite scenes was when he bust's the cage and and escaped the ship. There are just so many wonderful things about this movie. Like how well Rieu Browning swam in that heavy suit, and the classic scene where Julia Adams decides to go take a swim, not knowing that the Creature was trieing to get her attention below. And Finally after a bunch of lousey attemps to steal his precios beuaty, he sneaks on the boat and walks up behind her, puts her over his shoulder and carrys her down to his watery home. Let me point out that Julia Adams is lousey screamer for monster movie's! Not very important considering she is so beautiful throughout the movie, but definetley no Fay Wray. One of the best clips is when the Gill Man lifts up his hand out of the water and almost grabsthe girls foot, but she moves in the nick of time! The first time I ever saw this however, I was a little disapointed with how sort of sudden it ended. Right after the guys come to Julia's rescue, they shoot him and he wobbles back into the ocean and die's.Maybe a little too breif I thought. However there are two sequels after the original, that showed the Creatures sad encouters with mankind and civilization. This will always be one of my favorite movies and Im sure you'll enjoy it if you havent already seen it. Seen it or havent, it is a spectacular movie to own, and I also reccomend the two seqeuls.

Review by Michael Peters.

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