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The Lagoon is Black and Your Prospects are Bleak When You Meet "The Creature from the Black Lagoon"- Tonight!

Tonight, on MeTV, we are very happy to again present the English-language version of the famed Toho Studios film that started the reign of the most famous Japanese kaiju (giant monster) in motion picture history! It’s a far cry from some of the later films, much more serious and tragic. Added for the American version, the future “Perry Mason” ( cue that theme music!) Raymond Burr became a part of movie history- as he witnesses the origin of "Godzilla- King of the Monsters"!

This 1956 film begins with reporter Steve Martin (Burr-and, yes, it is not lost on anyone that the character has that name, long before we all became aware of the comedian and current star of “Only Murders in ...

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