Creature from the Black Lagoon

The last of the Universal monsters and a suit design nobody has improved on in seventy years.

An expedition on the Amazon finds a living link between fish and man. He watches the woman swim, and the film's most famous sequence is a long underwater ballet in which she does laps on the surface and he mirrors her from below without touching.

The suit was designed by Milicent Patrick, who was written out of the publicity by the studio's makeup head and whose contribution was not properly credited for fifty years.

Two performers played the Gill-man: Ben Chapman on land and Ricou Browning, a competitive swimmer, underwater. Browning held his breath for up to four minutes at a time because the suit had no air supply.

Shot in 3D. The underwater photography in Florida is better than the plot deserves.