All language subtitles for CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON [1954] - Richard carlson

In the beginning, God
created the heaven and the Earth.

And the Earth was
without form, and void.

This is the planet Earth,
newly born,

and cooling rapidly
from a temperature

of 6,000 degrees
to a few hundred

in less than
five billion years.

The 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.

The record of life is
written on the land,

where 15 million years later,

in the upper reaches
of the Amazon,

man is still trying to read it.

Tomas! Tomas! Tomas!

Please.

What that is, Dr. Maia?

I don't know, Luis.

I have never seen
anything like this before.

It's important?

Yes, I think it is,
very important.

We will take one more picture.
Then we will dig it out.

Luis, I'm going to Morajo
Bay, to the institute.

You two are to
wait here in the camp.

You be gone long?

Long enough to
find out what this is

and get help in digging out
the rest of the skeleton.

I want a man in camp at all times.
Luis, you will be in charge.

I'm sure you scared
all the fish away.

At the depths
he's working, Doctor,

the fish won't hear a
thing, believe me.

There he is. See him?

What's he waiting for?

He's getting used to
the change in pressure.

Here he comes.

Hi.

David. David, I have
a surprise for you.

Yeah?

Carl Maia!

It isn't you!

What's left of me,
Dr. David Reed.

The last I heard of you, you
were up in the Amazon someplace

digging for old
skeletons and things.

And you two were doing research
for an aquarium in California.

What are you doing in Brazil?

On, we've been guests at your
institute for a month now.

We're looking for
specimens of lungfish.

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

A geologist's point of view.

He expected a loveable old
professor with a beard.

I didn't expect him to look like he
did when he was a student of mine.

Give me a shoulder, Kay.

Are you two married yet?

No. No, David says we're
together all the time anyway,

might as well save expenses.

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

That's what I keep
telling him, Carl.

I'm waiting for Williams
to give her that raise.

Then she can afford me.

Come on. Let's go ashore.
It's good to see you again, Carl.

Show him what
brought you back, Carl.

I found this in
a limestone deposit

dating back to
the Devonian age.

I was hoping you
experts on marine life

could make some identification.

I've never seen
anything like this.

Look at the webbing
between the fingers, David.

Yeah.

Maybe we'll know more about it after
I find the rest of the skeleton.

Boy, I'd sure like to
be with you when you do.

So would I.

What about your boss?
You think he would be interested?

Williams?

If there's a chance of any publicity,
just try and keep him away.

Now, be fair, David.
Publicity brings endowments.

And without money,
there isn't any research.

That's right, if it weren't for Dr.
Williams going on digging up the dough,

we wouldn't be down here.

Where is this thing?

At the institute.

Here it is, gentlemen.

Exactly as I found it.

- It's amazing.
- It's incredible!

Could it possibly
belong to a Pleistocene man?

Chances are much
greater that that hand

belonged to an amphibian, Mark,

one that spent a great
deal of time in the water.

Well, then now do you account for
the structure of the fingers,

obviously for land use?

What do you think, Dr. Matos?

We can be sure of one thing.
Whatever it was, it was very powerful.

You say you have hopes of
finding the rest of the fossil?

As soon as I get a suitable
expedition together.

Well, why don't we
make up the expedition?

We're here now, and after all,

it does come under the heading
of our work, doesn't it, David?

It certainly does.

More and more,
we're learning the meaning

and the value of
marine research.

Look, look over here.

This lungfish,

the bridge between fish
and the land animal.

How many thousands of ways nature
tried to get life out of the sea

and onto the land.

This one failed.
He hasn't changed in millions of years.

But here,

here we have
a clue to an answer.

Someday, spaceships will be traveling
from Earth to other planets.

How are human beings going
to survive on those planets?

The atmosphere
will be different,

the pressures
will be different.

By studying these
and other species,

we add to our knowledge
of how life evolved,

how it adapted itself
to this world.

With that knowledge,
perhaps we can teach men

to adapt themselves to some
new world of the future.

Nice speech, David, but there's
still a practical side to it.

If I sound brash and more like
a banker than a scientist,

try to remember that it takes money
to run an institute like ours.

A find of any real
importance can be

of great financial
value to us also.

Certainly, your board
couldn’t disapprove.

It certainly couldn't.

Dr. Maia, you've got
yourself an expedition.

Good, we'll leave for
Manaus in the morning.

From there, we'll take
a boat up river.

Tomas!

No, no, no!

It's so hot.

It'll get hotter.

Couldn't Maia find anything
better than this barge?

Well, I guess not many ships want to
go up river as far as we're going.

We didn't exactly expect to
get the lie de France either.

You don't like the Rita?

What the doctor meant, Lucas...

I know what the doctor means.

But what for I need
a sweet-smelling boat

to carry fish on
this crazy river?

How do you like the best cabin
on the Rita, Miss Lawrence?

I love it!

Good.

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

Let's hope we have
some use for it.

I'll be disappointed
if we don't.

Assuming, of course, that Dr.
Maia's facts are well-founded.

Dr. Maia's a scientist, not a fortuneteller
How can he guarantee anything?

Well, it seems to me,
a scientist has need

for both vision and confidence.

I didn't mean it as any
personal criticism, Doctor.

It's just that I always
look forward to success.

And I thought the
Mississippi was something.

It's a winding brook
compared to the Amazon.

This is exactly as it was
150 million years ago

when it was part
of the Devonian era.

Sounds like the
beginning of the world.

It is.

Even the animals here grow as
they did in Devonian forests.

The anteater is a giant
with the strength of a bear.

The centipede grows
to be a foot long.

The Amazonian rat
is as big as a sheep.

That's incredible.

But it's true.

Don't forget our catfish.

They grow to be nine
feet long, and killers!

Like everything in this
jungle, all killers.

Dr. Maia says we're gonna drop
anchor in a couple of hours.

Maybe you'd better
get some rest.

Again, Lucas.

We want to make sure
my boys hear us at camp.

When we anchor,
we'll take a rowboat.

Luis!

Tomas!

Luis!

Luis! Tomas!

Strange they'd be gone.

Could they have gone hunting?

I gave strict orders for one man
to remain in camp at all times.

Come on!

Stay here, Kay.
Wait till we find out what's going on.

Luis!

What could have happened?

I don't understand it.

There is only one explanation.
The country is full of wild animals.

I think maybe jaguar.
Jaguar's claws, they rip like this.

Where's Kay? Kay?

Kay!

What happened?

There's been trouble.

Let's go back on board, Kay.

A world-shaking find,
all right.

Eight days.

All we dig up are enough
stones to pave a road.

Had enough, Mark,
or do we keep on digging?

I'll tell you when
I've had enough.

We've failed, that's all
people will understand.

Carl, have you any idea what
this tributary empties into?

My boys used to tell me there's
a lagoon at the end of it.

What are you getting at?

I was just thinking.

It could be that at
some time in the past,

part of this bank broke away
and fell into the river here.

Over hundreds of years, perhaps
over thousands of years,

the current would break it up.

If there is a dead end
to this tributary,

that's where we'll
find the fragments.

We might even find
the rest of your fossil.

It's a theory.

What's wrong with that?

Even if David's
theory is correct,

the chances of finding
anything are remote.

Science is always taking the remote chance.
Why don't we try it?

We might still turn
failure into success.

Well, there's just
one thing, Mark,

going into unexplored
territory with a woman.

I'm not afraid, David,
and we've come this far.

Yeah, I know,

but I keep remembering
what happened to Carl's men.

That doesn't sound like the
dedicated scientist talking, David.

Dedication doesn't mean
risking the lives of others.

I've always found Kay was
able to take care of herself.

But we know nothing
about this lagoon.

I can tell you something
about this place.

My boys call it the "Black
Lagoon," a paradise.

Only, they say nobody
has ever come back to prove it.

We'll do it.

Oh, David.

I didn't mean to startle you.

I don't know what
made me do that.

That howling out there
doesn't help any.

Those are guariba monkeys.

You sorry now that we came?

You don't understand the
species very well, Doctor.

Well, give me time.
I thought I was doing well,

considering that we've only
been together for six months.

How much time do you
think you'll need?

From where I'm sitting,
I'd say a lifetime.

That's the right answer.

We may not even
have a lifetime.

In that case...

You mean this thing
really works?

Oh, yes.

It's a very positive weapon,
the spear gun, Lucas,

and easy to use.

All you do is
aim it and squeeze.

What are you going to shoot at?

Does it make any difference?

Can you take it any slower?

Ease her off.
Little bit, not too much.

Give me that boat hook.

I think we can just
make it on this side.

It's tight over here.

It's impossible.

But I, Lucas, will do it.

The Black Lagoon.

The beautiful lagoon.

Another world.

Take her out a little farther, then
we'll get the net over the side.

You expect to catch a fish?

We might as well find out
what species are here.

We're not interested in what
species of fish are here.

We're after the rest of
that fossil, remember?

I need some rocks from the
bottom of the lagoon for a test.

But we just got here.
Why waste time?

If any parts of the
wall that contained

the fossil were
ever deposited in here,

the rock test should prove it.
Yeah.

I'll get the Aqua-Lungs.

You be careful, David.
We don't know what's down there.

I hope you're afraid
for me too, Kay.

Of course, Mark.

A little faster.
Come on! Faster!

All right, let her down.
All the way.

Come on, down, down.
All the way.

All right. Hold it!

Here we go.

We got the net down, David.

Good.

This is crazy kind of fishing.
Who eats rocks?

I do, in a manner of speaking.

I crush them and
they tell me things.

Now, you be careful.

What these rocks
tell you, anyway?

How old they are.
It's called the uranium-lead test.

What do you wanna
know that for?

So we can match them against the
sample in which the fossil was found.

Hey, they're up!

How long they
have to wait there?

It depends on how
far down they went.

Well, how was it down there?

Oh, fine.

Come on, I'll help you
off with this equipment.

Good.

Carl, I got your samples.

Good.

Let me have them.

Here they are.

Thank you, David.

And this is something for you.

Oh! Well, thank you.
They're very pretty.

Let's test them right away.

- Will you help me, Doctor?
- Be glad to.

DR. MAIA Thank you.

Come on, David.
You can play house later.

David. About Mark.

Well, what about him?

Try to understand.

I've been trying.

Somebody ought to tell him
his ambition is showing.

It won't do any good, I know.

Long before you came to
work with us, I tried.

But there's this
to say for him,

he's produced some
important findings.

He's also taken credit
for some important findings.

Well, coming below?

No. No, I'll wait up here.
Hey, what was it like down there?

Like another world.

I'd like to see it.

Crazy kind of fishing,
for rocks!

Miss Lawrence!

Miss Lawrence!

You're too far out,
Miss Lawrence!

Hey, Zee! Go start the motor!

Chico! Pull up the anchor!

Kay, what are you doing out there?
Come on back!

You take it easy. We get you!

Drop the anchor.

Thanks, Lucas.

Kay, that wasn't
a very smart thing to do.

KAY; But wonderful!

What was that?

Something's in the net.

Pull up your net!

Come on. Hurry up!
Take it away!

Pull it up!

Pull it up!

Is it fouled against the side?

Pull it up!

The boom's cracking!

Slack off your winch!

Slack off!

He can't hear you!

Hey, what kind of fish do this?

Who says it was a fish?

The net could've hooked on
to some underwater rock.

Wait a minute.

It was no rock that
left this in the net.

It's amazing!

I just finished
the rock analysis.

And you were right, David.

Some of the limestone deposit
where I found the fossil

is on the bottom
of this lagoon.

Lucas, put that over the
side for me, will you?

Whatever the species might be, if you
let it alone, it won't bother you.

Maybe. But if you're wrong, this
harpoon will correct any mistakes.

Mark, we're out for photographs
for study, not trophies.

This thing alive and in its natural
habitat, it's valuable to us.

Why settle for a photo when
we can get the real thing?

You don't sound
like a scientist.

You sound like some big-game
hunter out for the kill.

We may not be back home, David,

but you're still
working for me.

You didn't wait long
enough before coming up.

Why'd you shoot?
You weren't attacked!

You sound as though I put
the harpoon through you.

What makes you think
we're supposed

to play tag with the
thing, whatever it is?

I tell you, we can learn
more from it if it's alive!

Please, what is it
that you found?

I don't know
what you'd call it.

It sounds incredible, but
it appeared to be human.

I tell you,

if it's what I think I saw,
it's the greatest find yet.

Nothing compares to it.

I've got the proof
here in my lens.

Many years ago, I hear
this legend on the river.

A very old native tell me of
a man who live underwater,

but she was crazy.

"Crazy Goole," everybody called her.

The unknown always
seems unbelievable, Lucas.

One accepts these things as
legend and lets it go at that,

but to actually believe
that there exists something

like a human being
that can live underwater...

This is no legend, as you'll
soon see for yourself.

What about the kamongo?

Science hadn't heard about
it until a few years ago.

The kamongo lived way back
in the Devonian age.

Interesting that the fossil I
found was out of the same period.

The kamongo was
a fish that breathed air.

- What does that prove?
- Nothing.

Except that the kamongo
fish, which has lungs,

exists today, right
here in the Amazon.

It hasn't changed in all
these millions of years.

That doesn't prove the
possibility of a gillman.

If the evolution
of that species

could reach a dead end
way back then

and still survive,

why couldn't another?

Where is he?

I was sure I had him
in my finder.

For a merman,
he takes a fine picture.

This wasn't
imagination, Doctor.

I'm sorry, David.

What proof do we have
if we never find it again?

If you hadn't stopped me,
we could have taken it!

Dead or alive,
what's the difference?

What happened?

Chico!

What happened?

Chico!

Chico is gone.

My brother was dragged down
into the water by a demon!

Come on, everybody,
look around, quick!

Chico!

Demon, eh?

It's no more far-fetched
than your gillman.

There are many strange
legends in the Amazon.

Even I, Lucas, have heard
the legend of a man-fish.

Over here! Quickly!

LOOK!

All right, Lucas,
start your pumps.

Now all we have
to do is catch him.

Don't waste your time.
You'll never take it alive.

I want to try, Mark.

All right, David, we can
always do it my way.

If we could just be sure
of its reaction.

Do you suppose it remembers
Mark's attack and seeks revenge?

I'll welcome it.

You'll get your wish,
all right.

I've got a hunch this creature
remembers the past and more.

I don't want him creeping up
on us while we're sleeping.

I know a way to
bring him up now.

Rotenone.

It's a drug which
natives make from roots

for catching fish
in still waters.

Sometimes I catch fish that way.
I show you. Look.

Excuse.

One taste of the poison
water, and poof!

The paralyzed fish floats up to
the top with a big hangover.

Come on! Let's try it.

Still no sign.

Nothing but
the little ones so far.

Could be he's dead
from the wound.

Then again, maybe the rotenone
isn't going deep enough.

Maybe we should fix the
rotenone to sink deeper down.

Yeah. Anything is worth a try.

What was that?

I don't know.

Come on. Come on.

You talking to me, Mark,
or something out there?

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.

Why won't they believe, Mark?

Because we deal
with known quantities,

with knowledge we've
accumulated up to now.

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.

Then why not some entirely
different form of life

in a world we already know is inhabited
by millions of living creatures?

We must have the proof!

In the water!
The lantern frightened him off.

No.

There he is!

It's foolish to go after him.

But he's drugged.

No, I'd wait anyway.

If he has gills,
he may suffocate

How long does the effect last?

An hour, maybe two.

But for that thing,
who can tell?

Carl, follow me in a rowboat.
Bring a net.

Wait, I'm going along with you.

I keep you covered.

That's where he went under.

I'm going to take a look.
Wait here.

Take it easy!
He went through here, come on.

Zee!

Oh, David! David!

We got him! We got him!

- Don't kill him!
- What happened?

Give me the net.

How is he?

He's dead.

That's the last one.

All right.

Will he live?

I don't know.

It depends on whether
he can survive

both the rotenone and being
out of the water so long.

You sound as if you
feel sorry for him.

Why? He could have
killed you just as easily.

But he didn't.

It doesn't make
any difference now.

The point is, he won't
do any more killing.

Any time you're ready,
Lucas, we can start back.

Mark, we're not
finished here yet.

We've got to make
a study of that grotto,

we've got to collect
photographs, data...

I've got all the proof I need.
Get going, Lucas.

Mark, we're not going anywhere
until we've finished our work.

All right, David, if it will
make you feel any better.

Oh, Doctor, would you mind staying
behind and keep an eye on our prize?

Don't be long, David.

You better get some rest.

Hi.

I thought I'd come up
and get some air.

What do you suppose
is taking them so long?

David's very thorough.

But shouldn't you
be resting, Kay?

I couldn't sleep.

Listen to the sounds.

Hunting calls, mostly.
Animals out for the kill.

Some of them are cries of fear,

like people who
whistle in the dark.

I'm not exactly blind.

You're worried about what's
happened between Mark and David.

But once you admit
the simple fact

that you're in love,
which you have,

then it becomes a good idea
to be the scientist about it.

It's not as easy as that.

Why not?

If it weren't for Mark Williams,
I wouldn't have my work

or even a job.

It's true, he helped you through
your training and gave you a job.

But he needed you just as
much as you needed him.

You're oversimplifying.

You've more than repaid
him many times over.

Why, a good part of his present
position at the institute

is due to your
valuable research.

And another thing...

Get away, Kay!

Go on, get back! Go on!

Dr. Thompson!

How is he?

If infection doesn't set
in, he may pull through.

The fool! It wouldn't have happened
if he hadn't been careless.

There's no one to blame.

Four men dead so far.

If he dies, what a useless waste
of experience and ability.

Nobody meant it
to happen, David.

Mark, I'm for getting out of this
lagoon just as fast as we can.

Without taking
what we came for?

We didn't come here to fight with monsters.
We're not equipped for it.

We came here to find fossils.

Later, later, we can come back with
a properly equipped expedition.

Be reasonable.

Reasonable?

What else could I expect?

But you, Carl,
it means as much to you.

You're driving
yourself too hard,

and the rest of us
along with you.

We're staying until we get him.

Or until somebody else
gets killed.

No, we're not.

Lucas, we're getting out of
here just as fast as we can.

Okay.

I'll make the decisions around here.

But you are wrong,
Mr. Williams.

On the water, the captain
makes the decisions.

We will do as you say.

You'll listen to me.

You wish to say
something, mister?

Dr. Maia, will you please
to pull up the anchor?

I will start the engine.

DR. MAIA Look Out!

There's something here.
Look out!

Look out!

Hold back. Hold back.
There's something here.

Hold back! Hold back!

I tell you, nothing
was there when we came in.

It was put there to keep
us from getting out.

By mm.

I check below for damage.

I go aft and keep watch.

You better stay with Thompson.

It's our last chance,
David, to get the proof.

Look, you can see for
yourself, it's still here.

We're trapped and
fighting for our lives,

and you're worried about whether
people will believe us.

Ls all right down below.

Go in the cabin
and lock the door.

No, no. Stay here
with us. You're safer.

Lucas. Lucas, start your winch.

Go on, go on. Start your winch.

Up an inch!

Hold it!

All right, give me some slack.

A little more.

Take it away!

Easy. A little more.

Take it away!

Take it up.

More, more.

Hold it.

All right, take it away!

UP, up!

She must have slipped.

We'll just have
to try it again.

How, David?

I'll have to use the Aqua-Lung.

I'm going to help him.

I'm going in with you.

Mark, all we're
interested in right now is

getting the entrance
to this lagoon cleared.

I'll be the bait for him.

Oh, Mark, get out of my way.

Let it come to me, David.

It'll give you a chance to get at him.
You're crazy.

Crazy to want to bring back the
biggest find anyone has ever made?

You don't know what this can
mean, David, to all of us.

Mark, you're not going with me!

I am.

Thank you, Carl.
Lucas, stand by the winch.

Carl, stand by that cable.

Oh!

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

Hey, that fellow down there,

you think maybe he's a
mosquito you can shoo away?

We've got to take that chance.
Oh, sure!

Whats an expedition without
two martyrs, at least?

Kay, Kay, I'm doing
the only thing we can do.

If we all just sit here,
we'll all end up as Mark did.

Wait a minute!
Something you just said,

about his not being a mosquito.

Maybe we won't have to fight him
on his own terms after all.

How much rotenone
have we got left?

Not enough.

Enough to use in a spray gun?

What?

Oh! You mean, to kill
like a mosquito!

It worked for us before.

And it took plenty of time.

All we want is
to make him groggy.

Keep him away long enough so I can
get a cable around that tree.

What do we use
for the spray gun?

One of the air bottles.

A solution of rotenone
released under pressure,

that ought to do the trick.

- Some trick!
- Come on!

Lucas, you stand guard.

Yes.

Can you hurry it up?

I shoot him, but I miss!

He'll be back. Hurry.

Give me a hand!

David!

Si!

Did you see him?

He's there, all right.

Give me a hand
with this equipment.

I'll help you.

I got the cable around the log.

Good.

Get ready with that winch.

All right.

I'll get her started.

Give it a little slack.

- Ready to take her back.
- Ready.

Uncleat that line
for me, will you?

All right, take her back.

Take it back.

Hard astern. She's coming.

Back. Back.

She's coming. Back.

Keep going. Hard astern.

We're clear.

Stand by to pull her
up with the winch.

Pull her in.

That's it.

I'll go down and unfasten it.

Give me slack!

Good.

More slack.

Slack. That's enough.

That's good.
Now you're getting it.

Just slip it back
through the ring.

Hurry, David!

I've almost got it.

He got her.

No, don't shoot, don't shoot!
You might hit Kay.

Give me a hand.

Lucas, get to the
beach entrance.

Kay!

Kay!

Kay?

Kay. Kay, darling.

Oh, David. David!

Get back, Kay. Get back!

No, no more. Let him go.

No.