Creature from the Black Lagoon Quotes

Taglines Centuries of passion pent up in his savage heart!

Taglines Creature from a million years ago!... every man his mortal enemy... and a woman's beauty his prey!

Carl Maia David, you still don't look like an ichthyologist.

Kay Lawrence The geologist's point of view. He expected a lovable old professor with a beard.

Mark Williams Come on, come on!

David Reed You talking to me Mark or something out there?

Mark Williams Both David, they won't believe it back home, none of them, I wouldn't have believed it myself sitting out here waiting for some monster to appear: that's why we've got to take him.

David Reed Why won't they believe Mark?

Mark Williams Because we deal with known quantities, with knowledge we've accumulated up to now.

David Reed We've just begun to learn about the water and its secrets, just as we've only touched on outer space. We don't entirely rule out the possibility that there might be some form of life on another planet, and why not some entirely different form of life in a world we already know is inhabited by millions of living creatures?

Mark Williams We must have the proof!

Narrator In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. And the Earth was without form and void. This the planet Earth, newly born and and cooling rapidly from a temperature 6,000 degrees to a few hundred in less than 5 billion years. Heat rises, meets the atmosphere, the clouds form, and rain pours down upon the hardening surface for countless centuries. The restless seas rise, find boundaries, are contained. Now, in their warm depths, the miracle of life begins. In infinite variety, living things appear, and change, and reach the land, leaving a record of their coming, of their struggle to survive, and of their eventual end.

Lucas I can tell you something about this place. The boys around here call it "The Black Lagoon" - a paradise. Only they say nobody has ever come back to prove it.

Dr. Thompson Demon, eh? Well, it's no more far-fetched than your gillman.

Lucas There are many strange legends in the Amazon. Even I, Lucas, have heard the legend of a man-fish.

Carl Maia Well, now we have a lab, such as it is.

David Reed Let's hope we have some use for it.

Mark Williams I'll be disappointed if we don't. Assuming of course Dr. Maia's facts are well founded.

David Reed Dr. Maia's a scientist, not a fortune-teller! How can he guarantee anything!?

Kay Lawrence Well it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence.

Mark Williams I didn't mean it as any personal criticism doctor, it's just that I also look forward to success.

Taglines Clawing monster from A Lost Age strikes from the Amazon's forbidden depths!

Lucas What kind of fishing is that? Who eats rocks?

Carl Maia I eat rocks, in a manner of speaking. I crush and look inside them and they tell me things.

Lucas What do they tell you?

Carl Maia How old they are.

Dr. David Reed We didn't come here to fight with monsters. We're not equipped for it. We came here to find fossils.

Carl Maia And you two married yet?

Kay Lawrence No, David says we're together all the time anyway, might as well save expenses.

Carl Maia Did you ever hear of two living as cheaply as one?

Kay Lawrence That's what I keep telling him, Carl.

David Reed I'm waiting for Williams to give her that raise. Then she can afford me.

Mark Williams We're staying until we get him.

David Reed Or until somebody else gets killed. No, we're not. Lucas, we're getting out of here as fast as we can.

Lucas Okay.

Mark Williams I'll make the decisions around here.

Lucas But you are wrong, Mr. Williams. On the water, the captain makes the decisions. We will do as you say.

Mark Williams You'll listen to me.

Lucas You wish to say something, mister? Huh?

David Reed It's the only way. We've to clear this inlet.

Lucas Hey, that fellow down there, you think he's a mosquito you can shoo away?

David Reed We got to take that chance.

Kay Lawrence Oh, sure. What's an expedition without two martyrs at least!

David Reed Hey, Kay, I'm doing the only thing we can do. If we all just sit here, we'll - we'll all end up as Mark did.