26. THAR SHE GLOWS: There be a light house in this plot.

Irvin Berwick and Jack Kevan were nobodies at Universal.. Kevan hated working for makeup department boss Bud Westmore, who took all the publicity ahead of the people who actually did the work. They formed Vanwick Productions and became independent producers and seeing as how Kevan had overseen the manufacture of the costumes for Creature from the Black Lagoon, why not make their own version? Using the feet of the mutant from This Island Earth and the hands of The Mole People, the diplovertebron was born.

Universal helped out, believe it or not. As they felt bad about so many of their technical people being laid off, they let them work on this film and gave the production discounts on equipment.

Sturges (John Harmon), the lighthouse keeper, is convinced that his daughter Lucille (Jeanne Carmen, who started dancing at the age of 13 before becoming a trick shot golfer before leaving her husband and hooking up with alleged mobster Johnny Rosselli, who introduced her to Sinatra, who in turn took her to Hollywood. She’s in The Three Outlaws, which has Neville Brand as Butch Cassidy and Alan Hale Jr. as the Sundance Kid. She was also in Untamed Youth and was the reason why Eddie Cochoran covered “Jeannie, Jeannie, Jeannie.” While working as a pin-up, she met R0selli again, who told her to leave Hollywood because of her friendship with the Kennedys and Marilyn Monroe, so she dyed her hair, got married, and had kids in Scottsdale. She is a bad girl, so he keeps losing his mind at everything she does.

He’s a weird dude who leaves food for the monster and keeps telling people that there’s such a thing, which drives the cops nuts. Well, there is a monster —a long-extinct prehistoric man-creature that rips off people’s heads.

How many people does it kill? Enough that diner owner Kochek (Frank Arvidson) has to open up his freezer to Constable George Matson (Forrest Lewis) and let him hang the headless bodies there. As for the town doctor, well, that’s voiceover actor Les Tremayne.

Berwick went on to make Strange Compulsion, The Street Is My Beat, The 7th Commandment, Hitch Hike to Hell, the Christian movie Suddenly the Light and Malibu High. As Darcia, he made the softcore film Ready for Anything! and was also the associate producer of Larry Buchanan’s The Loch Ness Horror. This is the only movie Kevan ever produced, but he would write The Street Is My Beat and The 7th Commandment. Screenwriter H. Haile Chace went on to direct and write the sexploitation movie Paradisio and the scare film V.D.

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