Say what you will about Creature From the Black Lagoon: seeing this drive-in classic again after twenty years, I was startled and impressed by how technically proficient it really is.
You know the story, of course: scientists discover a prehistoric amphibian alive and well in an Amazonian lagoon that is not so very black and attempt to capture it for study. The "gill-man" becomes enamored with the only female on the expedition (naturally), and tries to steal her away to its remote cave hideaway--surely to talk about things such as the American economy after the end of WWII.
