Creature from the Black Lagoon

"We didn't come here to fight with monsters. We're not equipped for it. We came here to find fossils."

"Narrator: In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. And the Earth was without form and void. This the planet Earth, newly born and and cooling rapidly from a temperature 6,000 degrees to a few hundred in less than 5 billion years. Heat rises, meets the atmosphere, the clouds form, and rain pours down upon the hardening surface for countless centuries. The restless seas rise, find boundaries, are contained. Now, in their warm depths, the miracle of life begins. In infinite variety, living things appear, and change, and reach the land, leaving a record of their coming, of their struggle to survive, and of their eventual end."

"Lucas: I can tell you something about this place. The boys around here call it "The Black Lagoon" - a paradise. Only they say nobody has ever come back to prove it."

"Creature from a million years ago!... every man his mortal enemy... and a woman's beauty his prey!"

"Centuries of passion pent up in his savage heart!"

"Clawing monster from A Lost Age strikes from the Amazon's forbidden depths!"

"Well, you know, people always ask me what makes Creature from the Black Lagoon hold up after all these years. I always say that if you look at the movie, the storyline starts with the Big Bang. Then it goes to the creation of man, and you see evolution with man coming out of the sea. The theory today is that man DID come out of the sea. These are issues that men today are STILL dwelling on. Was man created? Or, was man evolved? So, that's why if you watch Creature, you're not bored because it still makes sense."

"I think the best thing about the picture is that we do feel for the Creature. We feel for him and his predicament and where he is and so on. I think that's a very positive thing really. I like that we feel sympathy for the Creature."

"I love Creature From the Black Lagoon, because in many ways it was the first action/adventure/horror movie, and it really broke new ground in that way. There was some interesting ecological lessons that the movie was trying to teach you, and it was a very unique thing. Again, that's a creature that is fascinated with this woman, and it's really all about wanting to connect to a human. I think that's very relatable in a lot of ways. That is the beauty of the Monster universe. Each character has a very compelling, moving interest; you just have to figure out how to tell that story."

"Richard Carlson — Dr. David Reed"

"Julie Adams — Kay Lawrence"

"Richard Denning — Dr. Mark Williams"

"Antonio Moreno - Dr. Carl Maia"

"Nestor Pavia - Lucas"

"Whit Bissell - Dr. Edwin Thompson"

"Bernie Gozier — Zee"

"Henry A. Escalante as Chico"

"Perry Lopez — Tomas"

"Rodd Redwing — Luis"

"Sydney Mason — Dr. Matos"

"Ben Chapman — Gill-man (land)"

"Ricou Browning — Gill-man (underwater)"