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Made for Universal Pictures in a lightweight 79 minutes, directed by Jack Arnold and starring Richard Carlson , Julie Adams and Richard Denning. The Gill-Man was played by Ben Chapman and Ricou Browning, the underwater action specialist (later to be responsible for the TV-series " Flipper ").

It is considered a classic of the 1950s monster B-movies and has wonderfully crisp photography to back up the featherweight plot and acting.

Followed by two sequels Revenge of the Creature ( 1955) and The Creature Walks Among Us ( 1956). Both the 1954 and 1955 films were originally made in 3-D for polarized 3D-glasses (but mainly distributed for the red/green anaglyph spectacles, showing an inferior 3D-effect), the last one was only produced "flat". In the 1980sMillennia: 1st millennium 2nd millennium 3rd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s Years: 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 Events and trends the director John CarpenterThis article is about the director, for the composer see John Alden Carpenter. John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film music composer. Born in Carthage, New York and raised in Bow attempted to produce a re-make, and a script was written by John LandisJohn Landis (born August 3, 1950) is a movie actor, director, writer, and producer. His career began as a teenager, working as a mailboy at 20th Century Fox. He starred in Schlock ( 1976), which he also wrote and directed, as well as The Kentucky Fried Mo and Nigel KnealeNigel Kneale (born Thomas Nigel Kneale on April 18, 1922 in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England, UK) is a Manx television and film scriptwriter, who has worked mostly in the UK. He is best known for his creation of the character of Professor Bernard Quate, but the film ultimately went unproduced.

The film has also had an effect on paleontology. When Jenny Clack of the University of Cambridge discovered a fossil amphibian in what was once a fetid swamp, she named it Eucritta melanolimnetes, which is Latin for, literally, "the creature from the black lagoon."