The Creature Walks Among Us

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The Creature Walks Among Us

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Directed by John Sherwood
Produced by William Alland
Written by Arthur A. Ross
Starring Jeff Morrow
Rex Reason
Leigh Snowden
Distributed by Universal International Pictures
Release date(s) April 26, 1956 U.S. release
Running time 78 min
Language English
Preceded by Revenge of the Creature
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The Creature Walks Among Us is the final installment of The Creature from the Black Lagoon horror film series from Universal Pictures. It was released April 26, 1956, in the United States.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Following the Gillman's escape from Ocean Habor, Florida, a team of scientists led by the mentally unbalanced Dr. William Barton manage to capture him in the Everglades. During the capture however, the creature is badly burned in a fire. The doctors bandage the Gillman, then notice that it is shedding its gills and even breathing using a kind of lungs. Now that the creature has more human-like skin, it is given clothing and the doctors attempt to try to get the Gillman used to living among humans. Barton ruins the plans when, in a murderous rage, he kills guide Jed Grant who made romantic advances to his pretty wife, Marcia. Barton then tries to put the blame on the Gillman. The Gillman, witnessing the killing, goes on a rampage. After ripping down the electric fence that kept him in, it kills Barton and then slowly walks back into the sea-- presumably to commit suicide because it no longer has gills and a previous attempt to swim in this condition nearly killed it.

  • Jeff Morrow .............. Dr. William Barton
  • Leigh Snowden .............. Marcia Barton
  • Rex Reason .............. Dr. Tom Morgan
  • Gregg Palmer .............. Jed Grant
  • Maurice Manson .............. Dr. Borg
  • James Rawley .............. Dr. Johnson
  • David McMahon .............. Captain Stanley
  • Paul Fierro .............. Morteno
  • Ricou Browning .............. Gillman (Underwater)
  • Don Megowan .............. Gillman (Land)

  • Ricou Browning played the creature under the water, while Don Megowan played him on land.
  • The underwater scenes were filmed at Wakulla Springs in North Florida, today a state park.
  • Unlike the previous two Creature films, this was not filmed in 3-D.
 v  d  e Universal Pictures horror movie series
Dracula
Dracula (1931) | Dracula's Daughter (1936) | Son of Dracula (1943) | House of Dracula (1945)
Frankenstein
Frankenstein (1931) | Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Son of Frankenstein (1939) | The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) | Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) | House of Frankenstein (1944) | Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
The Wolf Man
The Wolf Man (1941) | Werewolf of London (1935) | Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) | She-Wolf of London (1946)
The Mummy
The Mummy (1932) | The Mummy's Hand (1940) | The Mummy's Tomb (1942) | The Mummy's Ghost (1944) | The Mummy's Curse (1944) | Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)
The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man (1933) | The Invisible Man Returns (1940) | The Invisible Woman (1940) | Invisible Agent (1942) | The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944) | Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
The Creature from the Black Lagoon
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) | Revenge of the Creature (1955) | The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)
Edgar Allan Poe
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) | The Black Cat (1934) | The Raven (1935)
The Phantom
The Phantom of the Opera (1925) | Phantom of the Opera (1943) | The Climax (1944)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953)


Maybe not suicide as one of the scientists says his gills may be regenerating and therefore it is possible that he returing to the sea because he knows he can live again in the deep. However, since there was no sequel, he may have been wrongl

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