Details

Release year: 1961

Storyline

A crook decides to bump off members of his inept crew and blame their deaths on a legendary sea creature. What he doesn't know is that the creature is real.

Top credits

Directors

Roger Corman

Writers

Charles B. Griffith

Cast

Antony Carbone — Renzo Capetto
Betsy Jones-Moreland — Mary-Belle Monahan
Robert Towne — Sparks Moranaja aka Agent XK150
Beach Dickerson — Pete Peterson Jr.

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Did you know

• Shot back-to-back in Puerto Rico with Last Woman on Earth (1960), using the same cast and crew, but not released until several months afterward.

• The scene of the Cuban officers saluting as the little boat they are floating in sinks was not planned; it actually began sinking as they were completing the shot. Roger Corman told the actors to stand and salute as the boat sank and filmed every moment, later stating that it "wasn't very deep" there. He also gave high praise for the Mexican actors who played the officers for taking direction so well.

• The little cartoon characters in the opening credits were provided by famed "Mad Magazine" artist Sergio Aragonés, not long before he went to work for the magazine.