Q 01/05

Which future star made his uncredited film debut as a lab technician in Revenge of the Creature?

A) Burt Reynolds

B) Steve McQueen

C) Clint Eastwood

D) Charles Bronson

Answer · why

C) Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood won the tiny role of Jennings after a string of unsuccessful auditions, then played an unbilled squadron pilot in Tarantula.

Q 02/05

Which star pities the Gill-man after watching Creature from the Black Lagoon in The Seven Year Itch?

A) Marilyn Monroe

B) Jayne Mansfield

C) Doris Day

D) Grace Kelly

Answer · why

A) Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe's character feels sorry for the Creature on the walk home, moments before a subway grate lifts her dress in the comedy's most famous sc...

Q 03/05

Which Guillermo del Toro film grew out of his rejected pitch for a Creature from the Black Lagoon remake?

A) Pan's Labyrinth

B) The Devil's Backbone

C) Crimson Peak

D) The Shape of Water

Answer · why

D) The Shape of Water

The Shape of Water gave del Toro the ending Universal had refused, with the amphibian man and the woman ending up together. It won the Oscar for Best ...

Q 04/05

William Alland heard the legend behind Creature from the Black Lagoon while acting in which Orson Welles film?

A) Touch of Evil

B) Citizen Kane

C) The Stranger

D) The Lady from Shanghai

Answer · why

B) Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane cast Alland as the faceless reporter Thompson, and at a 1941 dinner party a cinematographer told him of fish-men said to live in a South ...

Q 05/05

The stuntman who swam as the Gill-man in Creature from the Black Lagoon later co-created which sea-going franchise?

A) Flipper

B) Sea Hunt

C) Baywatch

D) Free Willy

Answer · why

A) Flipper

Flipper began when he saw his children glued to Lassie and imagined the same kind of story with a dolphin in place of the dog.