Creature from the Haunted Sea

Creature from the Haunted Sea is a 1961 film about a crook who 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.

Directed by Roger Corman. Written by Charles B. Griffith.

This Gangster's "Single Partner" Isn't Even Human!  (taglines)

Sparks Moran

• I had to go the Santo Domingo bar and I had to find Agent XK-120, whom I'd never met.
• Mary-Belle Monahan, alias Mary-Monahan Belle, alias Belle-Mary Monahan, alias Monahan Marybelle: they say she was a gun moll just because Lucky Luciano gave her a Rolls Royce every Christmas and they can't really prove she sneaked into the Hollywood Bowl with a tommygun and rubbed out the convention of police chiefs in 1956. Oh, I knew that she got nailed cold when she was pushing heroin in the laundry room at Boys' Town, but I'm willing to give anyone the benefit of the doubt - especially when she's as crazy-looking as Mary-Belle.
• Renzo loved Mary-Belle, but he was the skipper and decided to go down ahead of his ship.
• So I got the girl... and guess who got the gold.

Dialogue

Renzo Capetto: Alright, baby, listen. You hold on to these 'cause I can't use 'em without Pete or Jack to help.

Mary-Belle Monahan: I'll keep 'em warm for ya.

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Renzo Capetto: You can go anywhere you like. I'm going home.

Cuban Colonel: To America?

Renzo Capetto: America? No, I can't go back there anymore... Sicily.

Cuban Colonel: Oh.

Renzo Capetto: I've got an uncle there who's been after me for years to help him stamp grapes. It's beginning to appeal to me.

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Mary-Belle Monahan: You made that monster up out of thin air! Now don't try to tell me it's real. I'm not that stupid.

Pete Peterson Jr.: Well, *I* am!

Taglines

• This Gangster's "Single Partner" Isn't Even Human!
• What was the unspeakable secret of the sea?

Cast

• Antony Carbone — Renzo Capetto
• Betsy Jones-Moreland — Mary-Belle Monahan
• Robert Towne — Sparks Moran / Agent XK150 / Narrator
• Beach Dickerson — Pete Peterson Jr

External links

• Creature from the Haunted Sea quotes at the Internet Movie Database