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Mark Mancini<\/b> and Mental_Floss<\/a> <\/strong>present 10 Aquatic Facts About Creature from the Black Lagoon<\/em><\/a><\/strong>.<\/b> <\/strong>Here are three of my favorites<\/span>…<\/p>\n 1. THE MOVIE\u2019S CONCEPT WAS CONCEIVED AT A CITIZEN KANE <\/em>DINNER PARTY. 4. A FORMER FRANKENSTEIN<\/em> ACTOR TURNED DOWN THE MAIN ROLE.<\/span><\/strong> 9. ITS 1955 SEQUEL WAS CLINT EASTWOOD\u2019S FIRST MOVIE. <\/span><\/strong> For Revenge<\/em> of the Creature<\/em>, Arnold resumed directing duties and he didn\u2019t care for the young Eastwood’s bit, telling Alland, \u201cI told you I don\u2019t want to do that ******* scene!\u201d Eventually, he relented and the footage stayed in. Eastwood never forgot the experience. As he told The Telegraph<\/em>, \u201cIt was a hell of a way to start your acting career: walk on a set and you know that the director hates the scene. Therefore you know he hates you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mark Mancini and Mental_Floss present 10 Aquatic Facts About Creature from the Black Lagoon. Here are three of my favorites… 1. THE MOVIE\u2019S CONCEPT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,53,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13727,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13725\/revisions\/13727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\n<\/span><\/strong>One night during filming of Citizen Kane<\/em>, Orson Welles invited one of the movie’s actors, William Alland, over for dinner along with a cinematographer named Gabriel Figueroa. While there, Figueroa shared a story he had heard during his travels of a race of amphibious beasts\u2014half man, half reptile\u2014that stalked the Amazon River. More than a decade later, still intrigued by the concept, Alland dramatized it by producing Creature from the<\/em> Black Lagoon<\/em>.<\/p>\n
\nWhen Boris Karloff retired from playing Mary Shelley\u2019s reanimated monster, Glenn Strange took over. From 1944 to 1948, Strange terrified audiences in Universal\u2019s House of Frankenstein<\/em>, House of Dracula<\/em>, and Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein<\/em>. Years later, the studio tapped him to play their web-footed \u201cGillman\u201d in Creature from the<\/em> Black Lagoon<\/em><\/em>, but because swimming wasn\u2019t his forte, Strange declined the part.<\/p>\n
\nPleased by the box office success of the original film, Universal rushed a sequel production. Revenge of the Creature<\/em> premiered in Denver on March 23, 1955. At one point, audiences got to see future star Clint Eastwood portraying a lab assistant. Though his appearance was uncredited, it hardly went unnoticed when the cast of Mystery Science Theater 3000<\/em> riffed Revenge of the Creature<\/em> in a 1997 episode:<\/p>\n