Revenge Of The Creature (1955)

A "gill man" is captured in the Amazon and transported to a Florida marineland where he is studied by scientists and put on display to a paying public. The sequel to the 1954 hit CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (a third one THE CREATURE WALKS AMONG US would come the following year), this one is different in tone from the original film. Here, the creature is more sympathetic than the humans. If you were kidnapped from your natural habitat, chained to the bottom of a water tank and shocked with cattle prods, wouldn't you be pissed? In comparison, the humans are an uninteresting lot that seem to take up space and our time. Also, with the bland and wooden John Agar in the lead, the gill man even becomes more attractive than he should be! It's an adequate sequel without much of the freshness and ingenuity of the first installment but it's nothing to be ashamed of. Directed by Jack Arnold. With Lori Nelson, John Bromfield, Brett Halsey, Nestor Paiva, Ricou Browning returning as The Creature and in his film debut, Clint Eastwood as a lab technician.