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CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON 1sh OR search current auctions Auction History Result b003 CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON linen one-sheet movie poster '54 best! Date Sold 11/1/2005Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) Creature from the Black Lagoon, the classic 1954 Jack Arnold Universal 3-D (3D; 3-Dimension) science fiction (sci-fi) monster horror thriller ("Sheer, stark terror grips you in underwater... 3-D"; "Terrifying monster of the ages raging with pent-up passions! ...with every man his mortal enemy ...and a woman's beauty his prey!"; "Centuries of passion pent up in his savage heart!"; "Amazing! Startling! Shocking!"; "Monster from a million years ago!"; "Clawing Monster From A Lost Age strikes from the Amazon's forbidden depths!"; "Thrills beyond compare in... 3D") starring Richard Carlson, Julie Adams (billed as "Julia Adams"), Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, Nestor Paiva, Whit Bissell, Ricou Browning (who played the Gill Man underwater), Ben Chapman (who played the Gill Man on land), and Bernie Gozier. Note that the inspiration for this movie began when William Alland (the producer of this movie) was playing an acting role in "Citizen Kane", and he learned of a myth about half-man half-fish creatures in the Amazon. He wrote notes for a story called "The Sea Monster" in 1951, combining the above myth with the "Beauty and the Beast" story. In December 1952, a 59-page treatment called "Black Lagoon" was written by Maurice Zimm and Leo Lieberman wrote a script based on that treatment in early 1953, but Universal turned it down. After this script was written, a new script was written by Arthur Ross and Harry Essex, and that was the script that was used for the movie as filmed, and the last great Universal monster was created! Finally, note that the wonderful creature costume was created by a woman named Milicent Patrick, who you probably never heard of, but she deserves to be well remembered. She was a top pianist as a young girl, and she graduated from high school at 14. She went to work for Disney as an artist in the animation department in the late 1940s, and she was the first female hired by Disney in that capacity. In 1954, she designed the classic creature costume used in this movie, but the head of the makeup department did all he could do to keep her from getting proper credit, and as a result, she left Universal. It is said that she also created some of the well known costumes in other Universal horror and sci-fi movies preceding this, but there is no clear record as to which ones (but some great monsters of this time, including the ones in "This Island Earth", seem to be unmistakably her design). She turned to acting, appearing in a few movies and on TV, but she pretty much vanished in the early 1960s. She passed away in 1998 at the age of 82. She certainly deserves massive credit for her contributions to this movie and other great 1950s monster movies, but that may never happen. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: NOTE THAT EBAY HAS ADDED RESTRICTIONS TO THOSE WHO PLACE BIDS OVER $15,000 ON A SINGLE ITEM. SINCE THIS ITEM MAY WELL SELL FOR GREATER THAN $15,000, YOU NEED TO DETERMINE IF YOU MEET EBAY'S REQUIREMENTS BEFORE YOU PLACE A BID OF GREATER THAN $15,000 ON THIS POSTER. IF YOU ARE IN THE SLIGHTEST DOUBT AS TO WHETHER YOU ARE ABLE TO PLACE SUCH A BID, PLEASE E-MAIL US AND WE WILL HELP YOU DETERMINE THE ANSWER. Condition: fine. This poster was linenbacked and during the backing process, its extremely minor defects were repaired and it now looks really great! We only assigned this grade ("fine") to posters that were in really excellent condition prior to linenbacking, AND which were linenbacked by a top professional! The consignor of this poster is the person who had it linenbacked. He told me that it was in virtually perfect condition prior to linenbacking with only pinholes in the corners and very minor wear on the foldlines. He told me that he had it linenbacked solely because he wanted to display it on the wall, and he did not want the foldlines to be distracting. I have looked at this poster super carefully (poring over every inch of it!), and I can confirm what he said is true. What is more important is that I have owned at least a half dozen examples of this poster over the years, and without fail, every example had some degree of fading in the red of the creature's lips and the red of the man's shirt at lower right (apparently there was something about the inks that were used that made them fade very easily). This example of the poster has far and away the brightest colors of any of the examples I have previously owned, or have seen at auctions I have attended. There may be another example out there that equals this poster, but if so, it is certainly a great rarity! Learn More about condition grades 
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