And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
My dad was a crowd extra when they filmed some of it at Marineland in St. Augustine, Florida. They went to St. Augustine High School and got some kids for the crowd fleeing scenes when the creature escapes from the tank. He said they got paid .50 cents a day and a box lunch. He said he was a star and had his own scene because he was the kid jumping over the turnstile when the creature was right behind him. lol
The boat scenes and some underwater work was filmed in Silver Glen Springs, a couple shots were filmed at the Yacht Club in Jacksonville and the tank scenes were filmed at Marineland.
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ReplyDeletein the old days 100 a day was top price.
ReplyDeleteCo-starring in The Creature from the Black Lagoon was one of the all-time most beautiful babes of Hollywood, Julie Adams. Growl!
ReplyDeleteP.S. Ben Chapman, who played the Creature when out of the water, was paid $300 a week. (IMDb is your friend.)
My dad was a crowd extra when they filmed some of it at Marineland in St. Augustine, Florida. They went to St. Augustine High School and got some kids for the crowd fleeing scenes when the creature escapes from the tank. He said they got paid .50 cents a day and a box lunch. He said he was a star and had his own scene because he was the kid jumping over the turnstile when the creature was right behind him. lol
ReplyDeleteThank you anon, stories like that are why I love the internet.
ReplyDeleteUnion scale was very different then.
ReplyDeleteI think a lot of it was filmed at Wacola Springs.
ReplyDeleteCaddo Lake, Texas - the scenes with the cypress swamp.
DeleteThe boat scenes and some underwater work was filmed in Silver Glen Springs, a couple shots were filmed at the Yacht Club in Jacksonville and the tank scenes were filmed at Marineland.
ReplyDeleteMaybe in his next embodiment the roles might be reversed, elsewhere in the multiverse.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand why Hollywood doesn't remake these old Horror Movies into LBGTQ+123* Woke agenda movies? I'm sure they would be big hits.
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