Creature From The Black Lagoon

    Director Jack Arnold's 4th feature film marks the beginning of a classic Universal Monster franchise with some terrific underwater action sequences and a terrifically over-dramatic musical score.
    A team of scientists exploring the Amazon discover an ancient fossil of what appears to be a humanoid hand with webbed claw-like fingers.  Before long an expedition of marine biologists head down the ancient river to an isolated area the locals refer to as the Black La...