Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959) – Swamp Creature Feature - video Dailymotion

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Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959) is an American black‑and‑white science‑fiction horror film directed by Bernard L. Kowalski and produced by Gene Corman. Set in the Florida Everglades, the story follows game warden Steve Benton as he investigates a series of disappearances near a swamp. Locals blame alligators, but Steve and a local doctor uncover the truth: a colony of gigantic, intelligent leeches, mutated (as characters speculate) by atomic radiation from nearby Cape Canaveral.  The leeches drag victims into an underwater cave, keeping them alive while slowly draining their blood. The film was released by American International Pictures as a double feature with A Bucket of Blood and became part of the 1950s wave of Cold War “creature features.”   Film Details Title: Attack of the Giant Leeches Year: 1959 Genre: Horror / Science Fiction Director: Bernard L. Kowalski Screenplay: Leo Gordon Produced by: Gene Corman Starring: Ken Clark, Yvette Vickers, Jan Shepard, Bruno VeSota Cinematography: John M. Nickolaus Jr. Editing: Carlo Lodato Music: Alexander Laszlo Production Company: Balboa Productions Distributed by: American International Pictures Release Date: October 1, 1959 (US) Runtime: 62 minutes Country: United States Language: English Budget: $70,000 (estimated)   #AttackOfTheGiantLeeches1959 #BernardLKowalski #GeneCorman #AIP #CreatureFeature #1950sHorror #SciFiHorror #YvetteVickers #ColdWarCinema #BMovieClassic

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00:05:20Well, if that's so, you fellas will see it right quick yourselves.

00:06:07Look, it's not like I want to be mean or anything like that, Liz, baby.

00:06:11I've got a reputation around here.

00:06:13These folks have no respect for a man who lets his woman boss him.

00:06:17Well, next thing they know, they'll be laughing at me.

00:06:19And they'll be telling all the rest of the...

00:06:21Won't you please listen to me, Liz, baby?

00:06:23I'll be there, Liz, I want to be, they'll be next to you, Liz.

00:06:23I'm sorry, Liz.

00:06:25Liz.

00:06:27Liz.

00:06:59Stop looking at me like that.

00:07:01I'll look at you any way I want. You're my wife.

00:07:19Don't touch me.

00:07:20You think you're talking to me? Don't touch me.

00:07:23You're my wife. I'll touch you any time I feel like it.

00:07:33Where are you going?

00:07:38Where are you going?

00:07:41I'm going out.

00:07:44Maybe I'll be back. Maybe I won't.

00:07:47Liz, baby. I didn't mean nothing.

00:08:15I'm going out.

00:08:19There was a young one in that last trap. I had to kill it.

00:08:22Oh, poor thing.

00:08:23Told you you shouldn't have come along.

00:08:31Well, I can understand hunting an animal, but...

00:08:33making it suffer in those traps...

00:08:35it's horrible.

00:08:37These poachers know the swamps like the back of their hands.

00:08:40But I'll catch one of them in the axe some night and put him away for six months.

00:08:44In the meantime, I'll have to be satisfied confiscating their trap lines.

00:08:47If you lose enough traps, it won't pay them to keep trying.

00:08:49Well, be careful, darling.

00:08:51These people aren't like other folks.

00:08:53You know, they'll try and get back at you.

00:08:55Let them try.

00:08:57Steve, you're a stranger here.

00:08:58They've lived this way for generations.

00:09:01One man isn't going to change them overnight.

00:09:03You're a real worrywart.

00:09:05Oh, I'm serious, Steve.

00:09:07They can be dangerous.

00:09:09Okay, I'll be careful.

00:09:11You just stop worrying.

00:09:19Oh, Steve, I love you.

00:09:22I love you so much.

00:09:28What was that?

00:09:30I don't know. You get in the truck and lock it up.

00:09:45You're missing?

00:09:50Ah!

00:09:51Ah!

00:10:11Come on!

00:10:11Listen, Benton.

00:10:12The coroner ruled that Sawyer died from a misadventure.

00:10:15As far as this officer is concerned, that's the end of it.

00:10:18But Sheriff, I can't see why the...

00:10:19If Lem was killed by anything human, I wouldn't need you to tell me my job.

00:10:24But I'm not about to go tromping through the swamp looking for an overgrown gator.

00:10:28Sawyer wasn't killed by an alligator.

00:10:30Is that so?

00:10:32Did you hear that, Morton?

00:10:33Game Warden Benton says it wasn't a gator who killed Lem.

00:10:37Well, then, what was it?

00:10:38You know so much, go on, tell me. What killed him?

00:10:41Dr. Grayson said the wounds were the kind of squid or a large octopus might cause.

00:10:45Oh, sure.

00:10:46And did Grayson explain how a saltwater creature happened to be 30 miles inland living in clear water?

00:10:52Stranger things have happened. I know that...

00:10:54Look here, Benton.

00:10:55You work for the state.

00:10:57Now, why don't you keep your nose out of county business? Is that clear enough for you?

00:11:03Oh, go soak your fat head.

00:11:08What was that you said?

00:11:09I said, go soak your fat head.

00:11:17Oh, that boy's looking for bad trouble.

00:11:21And he's sure going to get it.

00:11:23You can bet on that.

00:11:33Well, you see, the octopi uses its suction discs to hold its prey.

00:11:37Now, in itself, the disc will not inflict a wound.

00:11:41Same is true of the squid.

00:11:42Now, both creatures have a parrot-like beak as their primary offensive and defensive weapon.

00:11:47Well, maybe the sheriff was right, Dad.

00:11:50Could be a freak or a malformed alligator.

00:11:54No.

00:11:56No, I'm afraid it wasn't.

00:11:58Well, where does that leave us, Doc?

00:12:01I wish I knew.

00:12:03You know, I'm beginning to think Lem was telling the truth in Walker's store.

00:12:07He did see something that night.

00:12:10Something that had intelligence enough to seek him out and destroy him later.

00:12:13But Sawyer claims to have killed the thing he saw.

00:12:16Put a half a dozen rifle bullets into it.

00:12:18I've seen that old .44-40 he used.

00:12:21Nothing could live after being hit with those slugs.

00:12:25Well, conceding the possibility of one such creature,

00:12:28we must also concede the possibility of others.

00:12:33Well, there's one sure way of finding out.

00:12:35Go in and search every backwater, channel, and wet spot in the swamp.

00:12:40If it's there, I'll find it.

00:12:41Come on.

00:12:44Come on.

00:12:47Come on.

00:12:57Come on.

00:13:27It's quiet around here.

00:13:58It's quiet around here.

00:14:03Did you hear something?

00:14:05Yes.

00:14:10Well, whatever it was, it's not here anymore.

00:14:20Do you want some coffee?

00:14:22Yeah, thanks, son.

00:14:26An army could hide in here and never be noticed.

00:14:29One did.

00:14:30What?

00:14:32Seminole was under Osceola in the 1830s.

00:14:35It took the U.S. Army two years to round him up.

00:14:38I remember reading about Osceola in high school.

00:14:41Two years.

00:14:44I've only been at it two days and I feel worn out.

00:14:48Well, you might as well keep on looking around.

00:14:50Come on.

00:14:50Well, I'm sorry.

00:15:02I'm sorry.

00:15:09Well, I'm sorry.

00:15:15Let's go.

00:15:16Let's go.

00:15:21Well, I guess we may as well give up for today.

00:15:23You won't get any argument from me.

00:16:09I'm asking you for the last time, Dave Walker.

00:16:13You answer me, you dirty old man!

00:16:17I ain't dirty, Liz, baby.

00:16:19Liz, baby. Liz, honey!

00:16:23Can't you think of anything else safe, stupid?

00:16:25I've got to get this order over Miss Chauvey.

00:16:27She's one of my better customers.

00:16:29Can't keep her waiting.

00:16:33I love you, Liz, baby.

00:16:36Get out.

00:16:38Get out, you fat pig!

00:16:56You, um, have some trouble, Dave?

00:17:00You no living, Cal.

00:17:02Got to get the hair down every now and then.

00:17:05You sure do know an awful lot about females.

00:17:08I've got to hand it to you.

00:17:10I can't stand here at John, Cal.

00:17:13I've got to get this order over to Miss Chauvey.

00:17:16What's she letting her hair down about this time?

00:17:19Well, ever since Lim got herself killed,

00:17:23she wants me to sell out and move into town.

00:17:26Don't you let her bamboozle you, Dave.

00:17:29You keep her right here in the store.

00:17:32After all, the place wouldn't be the same without you around.

00:17:36Thanks, Cal.

00:17:37I better get going.

00:17:38See when I get back.

00:17:40Yeah, I'll be around.

00:18:01It's Cal, honey.

00:18:12You want something, Cal?

00:18:18I sure do, honey.

00:18:36Quiet.

00:18:38Oh, I'm dead.

00:18:40Me too.

00:18:42Come on over here.

00:18:52It seems kind of silly knocking ourselves out

00:18:55looking for something we aren't even sure exists.

00:18:58What do you mean?

00:19:00You know, we've covered miles of back channel

00:19:03and haven't come across anything to support your father's theory

00:19:06of an alien creature.

00:19:08Not so much as a mud print we couldn't identify.

00:19:10You know, I...

00:19:12I know.

00:19:15You're not going to give up, are you, Steve?

00:19:18Well, I...

00:19:18I can't waste any more time on a wild goose chase.

00:19:23With all respect to your father's ideas.

00:19:28Dad seems so sure.

00:19:31No, no, no, no.

00:19:38I've been there.

00:19:42I've been there...

00:19:46I've been there for a lot of us...

00:19:51It's been there for um...

00:19:53Again, I've been there.

00:19:54I've been there for a long time now.

00:19:55I'm there, too.

00:19:59I've been there for about 1 a while.

00:20:10Yes, some woman, Liz.

00:20:14I reckon I haven't met a woman like you before.

00:20:18You really like me, Cal?

00:20:22Are you kidding me?

00:20:25No, I didn't hurt you now, did I?

00:20:28You're just so strong.

00:20:32I like him, and he's strong.

00:20:35Well, you sure picked a doozy, that man, Dave.

00:20:41I don't think he's got a muscle in him.

00:20:43Just a big piece of flab.

00:20:47Oh, honey, I didn't mean anything against you.

00:20:52I mean, just that I can't see a real woman like you

00:20:56tying in with a tub of lard like him.

00:21:01You wouldn't understand, Cal.

00:21:05You know, I've wanted to tell you.

00:21:10You just wouldn't understand.

00:21:12You're trying there.

00:21:14Come on, you tell old Cal all about it.

00:21:23You wouldn't think bad, Ami.

00:21:26Crazy.

00:21:28You tell me you killed your pa and your ma

00:21:31and your whole family.

00:21:33I fight to protect you.

00:21:41What?

00:21:42What?

00:21:48What?

00:21:49What?

00:22:01What?

00:22:17My first husband was a no-good bum.

00:22:20Couldn't keep a job more than a week.

00:22:24Used to get lushed up, come home beat up on me.

00:22:29You must have been a prize pig.

00:22:32One night, he tried to hold up a gas station.

00:22:36He was so drunk, he couldn't even run.

00:22:39I thought I'm less than a mile away.

00:22:42He got sent up.

00:22:45I got a divorce.

00:22:49That's rough.

00:22:51After three years working on a lousy beanery, I was ready for the first guy that sent a nice word

00:22:56to me.

00:22:58It was Dave.

00:23:01That's it.

00:23:03I wish it would have been me.

00:23:04I don't know how to take care of a woman like you, Liz.

00:23:08Maybe it ain't too late, gal.

00:23:18You're wrong, woman.

00:23:20It's too late for the both of you.

00:23:24Get up.

00:23:27Come on, get up.

00:23:29Now look, Dave, I know what you're thinking, but...

00:23:31I got double large shot in this here thing.

00:23:35You got two seconds before I'm pulling the trigger.

00:23:42No point getting riled, Dave.

00:23:45It wasn't my fault.

00:23:47You've been testing me for months to take her out.

00:23:49Sure, gal.

00:23:51I understand.

00:23:53Get her up so I can get a better look at the line, little tramp.

00:23:57Come on, get up.

00:24:00Come on, get up.

00:24:01Come on, get up.

00:24:02No, no.

00:24:02No, he killed me.

00:24:04He killed me.

00:24:04Jump him.

00:24:06And your husband wants to take a look at you.

00:24:12You, uh, you walk all the way, Dave?

00:24:14One more step and I'll blow your plumbing, too.

00:24:18Get over there.

00:24:20Now, now, Dave, it ain't as bad as you think.

00:24:23Shut up.

00:24:25What are you going to do?

00:24:28You'll find out soon enough.

00:24:32Dave, you put down that gun before I get mad and make you eat it.

00:24:35You go ahead and try it, Cal.

00:24:37Go right ahead and try it.

00:24:41Move!

00:24:42Move!

00:24:43Move!

00:25:23Move!

00:25:25Move!

00:25:26Come on!

00:25:26I can't go!

00:25:27I can't go!

00:25:27Holy Father!

00:25:28No!

00:25:29Come on!

00:25:29No!

00:25:30Come on!

00:25:30No!

00:25:31Come on!

00:25:56Go on, run!

00:25:58Run till you drop!

00:26:22I can't go anymore, I can't!

00:26:25You've got to live in for a minute!

00:26:28You've got to live in for a minute!

00:26:30I can't go on!

00:26:33Kea!

00:27:01Come on, keep going!

00:27:04Dave, please, you've got to listen!

00:27:06It wasn't my fault, Ernest!

00:27:09She'd complain to me every time you'd turn your back!

00:27:11It wasn't my fault!

00:27:13You call yourself a man!

00:27:15You and your muscles!

00:27:18Shut up, you trap!

00:27:20If it wasn't you, I wouldn't be in this place!

00:27:22And my old friend Dave wouldn't be doing this thing to me!

00:27:25It's all your fault!

00:27:28Get going!

00:27:30But Dave, Dave, we've been friends!

00:27:33We've been friends a long time, Dave!

00:27:35You wouldn't kill an old friend, Dave!

00:27:38If you don't move, I'll kill you where you stand!

00:27:41But Dave!

00:27:51I'm sorry!

00:27:53I'm sorry!

00:27:55I'm sorry!

00:27:56Please, Dave, please, Dave!

00:28:03I'm sorry!

00:28:05I'm sorry!

00:28:06I'm sorry!

00:28:11I'm sorry, honey. I'm sorry, Dave.

00:28:14I'm sorry. I didn't mean it.

00:28:17I'm sorry.

00:28:24You think you'll learn enough to stay away from a woman, Carol?

00:28:28Oh, anything, Dave.

00:28:30I'll move into the... I'll move out of the county.

00:28:33I'll do anything you say, Dave. Anything.

00:28:36All right.

00:28:38Come on out of there.

00:28:41Dave! Dave! Give me a hand up!

00:28:44Oh, Dave!

00:28:47Oh, my God!

00:28:49Oh, my God! Behind you!

00:28:54Ah!

00:28:55Ah!

00:28:57Ah!

00:28:58Ah!

00:28:59Ah!

00:29:01Ah!

00:29:12There ain't nothin' down here, Sheriff.

00:29:16Well, I'm gettin' tired of this.

00:29:19Come on in, boys!

00:29:25Well, if there was any bodies out there, we'd have found them.

00:29:29I want some straight answers, Walter.

00:29:32And don't give me any more of that crud about monsters, either.

00:29:36Where'd you hide them after you killed them?

00:29:40I told you the truth, Sheriff.

00:29:42I didn't kill them.

00:29:45I just wanted to scare them good.

00:29:49I loved my Liz.

00:29:52I loved her.

00:29:53I wouldn't do anything to hurt her.

00:29:55I loved her.

00:29:57Sure.

00:29:58You loved her.

00:30:00That's why you chased her through the swamp with a shotgun.

00:30:04Come on, Walker.

00:30:05Where'd you hide the bodies?

00:30:08Don't you believe me?

00:30:10Don't you believe me?

00:30:10There's some monsters.

00:30:11They...

00:30:12Take him out of here before I lose my temper.

00:30:16My...

00:30:17My...

00:30:18My...

00:30:19My...

00:30:21My...

00:30:22My...

00:30:23My...

00:30:36My...

00:30:37My...

00:30:38You know, I...

00:30:38Never thought that of old Dave.

00:30:41Course, everybody know that Cal Leers had a hankering for each other...

00:30:45Everybody but old Dave.

00:30:47Just ooh!

00:30:49Grapplin out the middle of the water!

00:30:52I...

00:30:53If in them bodies are still in there you can bet some old sommeliv go truc.

00:30:57has got him stuffed in his cave under the bank,

00:31:00letting him ripen up for a few days.

00:31:04Yeah, well, what we need now is some long cypress poles

00:31:08to go in there and probe them gator caves.

00:31:10Yeah.

00:31:27I'm sorry, Doc, I can't do it.

00:31:29I have to do it myself.

00:31:31Wouldn't want to have to arrest you, Doc,

00:31:32but I will if I find you near the preserve with any explosives.

00:31:35Steve.

00:31:36Sorry, Nan, that's the way it's got to be.

00:31:39Steve's right, Nan.

00:31:40It's his job to protect wildlife.

00:31:42What about human life?

00:31:45Three people have been killed in that game preserve.

00:31:47Doesn't that mean anything to you?

00:31:49Nan, try to understand.

00:31:51If I could be sure something in the swamp was

00:31:53responsible for those deaths, I wouldn't hesitate a minute.

00:31:56We've been together the last three days.

00:31:58We didn't see a trace of anything unusual.

00:32:01Not so much as a suggestion of any form of life unknown to us.

00:32:05Steve, something killed those people.

00:32:08All right, I'll admit Sawyer's death left a lot of questions unanswered.

00:32:12But you can bet your bottom dollar the other two died from Dave Walker's shotgun.

00:32:16Do you really believe that?

00:32:18Figure it out, Nan.

00:32:19Walker admitted chasing his wife and cow into the swamps after he found them together.

00:32:23He shot them and he tried to place the blame on Sawyer's DTs.

00:32:27If Sawyer had told us seeing purple giraffes with polka dot tails, Walker would have claimed they did it.

00:32:33There's one argument against that, Steve.

00:32:35Dave Walker wasn't the kind of a man to hang himself, not even with two murder charges against him.

00:32:40I talked with Dave less than an hour before he killed himself.

00:32:43That man was in a state of shock.

00:32:45Look, I've seen frightened men before, terrified men.

00:32:48But I've never seen anything to compare with the horror and the fear in Walker's eyes.

00:32:52Well, he realized what he'd done and he killed two people.

00:32:55And one his wife.

00:32:57Look, Doc, Nan and I were all over that swamp.

00:32:59And why didn't these monsters attack us?

00:33:02I've been thinking about that.

00:33:04They're probably night creatures.

00:33:05They can't stand the light and they stay down near the bottom during the day.

00:33:09A small charge would stun them, bring them to the surface.

00:33:13Can't bite, Doc.

00:33:15You're pig-headed Steve Benton.

00:33:18Stubborn and pig-headed.

00:33:20You just don't understand, do you?

00:33:30Good night, Doc.

00:33:38Good night.

00:33:48Good night.

00:34:09Good night.

00:34:09Right over there in them reads.

00:34:24Right over there in them reads.

00:34:27Just can't figure old Dave out.

00:34:29If you was caught like Cal, what would you do?

00:34:33I hadn't caught that.

00:34:37Right over there in them reeds is where that big one used to be.

00:34:41Yeah.

00:34:43Caught some good catfish in that hole.

00:35:03Boy, that's a sure hot one.

00:35:11Right unseasonable.

00:35:14Sure is funny.

00:35:16Huh?

00:35:18Noticed anything?

00:35:20About what?

00:35:20We've been prodding around you all morning.

00:35:23Ain't run across a single gator.

00:35:26By rights, this pool should be crawling with them.

00:35:31Sure funny.

00:35:33Yeah, that is funny.

00:35:35I don't like the looks of things.

00:35:37Let's call it a day.

00:35:38Well, now, wait a minute.

00:35:39We ain't pulled the gator holes around the bin yet.

00:35:42You do what you want to do, boy.

00:35:44Just get me on dry land.

00:35:45And right quick.

00:35:47All right.

00:35:47Now, ain't no use getting all head up.

00:35:49Let's go.

00:35:53You've got to quit drinking that moonshine.

00:35:55Yeah.

00:35:58That's why you're so wrinkled and ugly.

00:36:03No way out here.

00:36:06Wild goose chasing.

00:36:14I've been Ohhh.

00:36:20All right.

00:36:23And, you know what I was trying to get?

00:36:44Oh, my God.

00:37:22Oh, my God.

00:37:43Oh, my God.

00:37:54Oh, my God.

00:37:55We've been calling, but there's been no answer.

00:37:57Oh, I just got back.

00:37:58What seems to be the trouble?

00:38:00Haven't you heard?

00:38:01Old Sam Peters and Porky Reed have disappeared.

00:38:05Come on inside.

00:38:12You know, Covis,

00:38:14nothing would please him more than to have all the swamp people disappear.

00:38:18Swamp trash, he calls them.

00:38:20I know.

00:38:21They have about as much regard for him as he has for them.

00:38:24When they're worried enough to go to him,

00:38:27you know something's wrong.

00:38:29Mrs. Reed said the men went searching for Cal and Mrs. Walker's bodies and they never returned.

00:38:35Covis says he'll get up a search party if they don't show up in a couple of days.

00:38:40Doc, you and Nan take your car and get as many volunteers as you can.

00:38:44Tell them to meet me at the old wagon road.

00:38:46I'll call Doak Evans and have him bring his dogs.

00:38:50Either they're lost or they've had an accident.

00:38:53I hope to heaven you're right.

00:39:15I've also saved you a life by the old wagon road.

00:39:15I'm getting that old wagon road.

00:39:16I've been waiting for you to imagine somebody.

00:39:16I've never quit.

00:39:17I've never quit.

00:39:18You've never quit.

00:39:21You've never quit.

00:39:21Let's go.

00:39:59Let's go.

00:40:20Well, they picked up the scent anyway.

00:40:23Dad, do you think they'll find them?

00:40:26Only the good Lord can answer that.

00:40:46Well, at least we know they got this far.

00:40:49All right, let's split up into two parties and circle the lake.

00:40:52Keep your eyes open.

00:40:54Let's move out.

00:41:37All clear.

00:41:41It's clear over here.

00:41:51All right.

00:42:09All right.

00:42:26All right.

00:42:26Let's keep moving.

00:42:51Well, we can't do anything more tonight.

00:42:52Might as well start back.

00:42:53I reckon there ain't no use hurrying now, Mr. Benton.

00:42:56And Reed and old Sam was alive.

00:42:59They let us know him with a holler or something.

00:43:01Yeah.

00:43:02It kind of looks that way.

00:43:04You fellas notice anything about this lake?

00:43:06I mean the gators.

00:43:07What about them?

00:43:08What about them?

00:43:09They ain't.

00:43:09A piece of water this size usually has maybe 50, 60 big ones around.

00:43:14A whole lot of little ones.

00:43:16It's real unnatural.

00:43:17Well, maybe our torches scared them away.

00:43:20Nothing scares gators.

00:43:22Nothing.

00:43:23And we're all human.

00:43:27Well, we might as well get out of here.

00:43:39You got something in mind, Steve?

00:43:41I keep thinking what Evans said about the gators.

00:43:45Nothing scares them, animal or human.

00:43:48And yet something made them leave.

00:43:50Maybe a mineral contamination.

00:43:53I guess I better run some water samples.

00:43:55Come on, you two.

00:43:56Drink your coffee.

00:43:59And supposing there is no contamination?

00:44:02Well, then I'll send over to Eastport for a diving rig

00:44:05and go down to look for this monster of yours.

00:44:07No, Steve.

00:44:08Don't even joke like that.

00:44:10I'm not joking, man.

00:44:11I had some training with an aqualung while I was in the Navy.

00:44:13But, Steve.

00:44:14Look, there are two bodies we know for sure down there.

00:44:17Maybe four.

00:44:18They've got to be brought up.

00:44:19Wait a minute.

00:44:21There are no alligators in that part of the swamp, right?

00:44:23So?

00:44:24No sign of any fish or snakes?

00:44:27No.

00:44:28What are you getting at, Doc?

00:44:31Well, that goes your argument about setting off a dynamite charge underwater.

00:44:34You'd bring the bodies to the surface.

00:44:37Get it out of your mind, Doc.

00:44:38I'm not using any explosives as long as there's another way.

00:44:41Why must you be such a...

00:44:42A stubborn pig head?

00:44:44Exactly.

00:44:45I'll tell you why.

00:44:47Number one, there's bound to be some Aquarian life in that section,

00:44:50even if the bigger forms have abandoned it.

00:44:53Explosion underwater would destroy every living thing

00:44:55and wreck what nature took years to build up.

00:44:58Number two, I'm paid to prevent the useless slaughter of wildlife.

00:45:03Number three, I'd have to get authorization.

00:45:05To get that authorization, I'd have to come up with a heck of a good reason.

00:45:10Satisfied?

00:45:13Finish up, Dad. I want to go home.

00:45:16Steve, how long would it take to get this diving equipment from East Park?

00:45:21A couple of days. Why?

00:45:24Oh, nothing.

00:45:29Take care of yourself, Steve.

00:45:38Well, here's hoping.

00:45:40Dad.

00:45:41Can't you throw the dynamite in from here?

00:45:43No, I want to get it out into the middle.

00:45:45In the deepest part.

00:45:51All right?

00:45:53All right?

00:46:00All right?

00:46:17No!

00:46:20Stop!

00:46:33Let's go.

00:47:12Let's go any minute.

00:47:33Let's go.

00:48:10I just can't figure it out.

00:48:15Walker's wife, why didn't her body come to the surface?

00:48:18I don't know.

00:48:22I think I'd better walk over to the coroner's office.

00:48:25What's the matter, Mr. Benton?

00:48:27You feel awkward about arresting my father in his own home?

00:48:30I warned him I'd arrest him if he used dynamite.

00:48:33That's nice of you.

00:48:37Well, the autopsy should be over by now.

00:48:42Oh, Steve.

00:48:43I thought you'd be here.

00:48:46I don't like to have to do this, doctor.

00:48:49Do we have time for a cup of coffee first?

00:48:51Sure.

00:48:52You mind, honey?

00:48:54No, I'll make some sandwiches.

00:49:07One thing is certain, for all the good it'll do now.

00:49:10Dave Walker didn't shoot Cal.

00:49:12Well, I just come from the autopsies.

00:49:17Covers tried to keep me out.

00:49:20If I told him I'd raise a stink, they'd smell all the way to the Capitol if he did.

00:49:24Well, what killed them, Doc?

00:49:25Not drowning.

00:49:27And Cal wasn't shot, either.

00:49:30Every drop of blood was drained out of their bodies.

00:49:34And they had wounds on their throats.

00:49:37Suction wounds.

00:49:38Like a gigantic leech might make.

00:49:42And there's something even more incredible.

00:49:45Now, Cal was supposed to have been killed several days ago.

00:49:48Sam and Reed had been missing a matter of 48 hours.

00:49:52All three of them, as far as we know, were in that lake a minimum of two days.

00:49:57Now, I'd state my reputation as a doctor.

00:49:59That Cal hadn't been dead more than two or three hours when we found him.

00:50:03And the other two less than that.

00:50:05First stage rigor mortis started in during the autopsy.

00:50:08But how could that be, Doc?

00:50:10It's impossible.

00:50:11The coroner will confirm it.

00:50:14Whatever killed him is still in that lake.

00:50:16And it's going to take more than dynamite to get it out.

00:50:21A concussion from those charges would have killed a full-grown whale.

00:50:27That explains how Cal and the others lived after they were supposed to be drowned.

00:50:30What do you mean?

00:50:32This whole region is riddled by caves and caverns cut out by the ocean thousands of years ago.

00:50:38If there are caves above the water, then there must be caves under the water.

00:50:42Go on.

00:50:44Mike and I had a chance to fool around with some frogman equipment captured from the Italian Navy.

00:50:49We sort of prowled through a sunken transport off Salerno.

00:50:54When the ship went down, it trapped some air inside the hull.

00:50:58We'd go down, come up inside the officer's lounge, take off her face mass,

00:51:02and sort of sample some of the bottles floating around.

00:51:05We'd drive the guys crazy trying to figure out how we were getting the stuff.

00:51:09You mean you think that there's an ale pocket or a cave underneath the lake?

00:51:14Right, got to be.

00:51:15How else could those people have lived down there?

00:51:17Not only that, it explains how whatever it is down there lived through the concussions.

00:51:21Steve.

00:51:24Liz Walker.

00:51:26She might still be down there.

00:51:29Alive.

00:51:47No, no, no.

00:51:51No.

00:51:54No.

00:52:00No, no, no, no.

00:52:29Comfortable?

00:52:30Yeah.

00:52:32You sure you don't want me to go down for you, Mike?

00:52:33You haven't had one of these things on for a long time,

00:52:36while me, every other day, I've been playing fish.

00:52:40Not this time, Mike.

00:52:43If you ask me, they ought to have their heads examined.

00:52:46Giant leeches.

00:52:49I'm willing to bet a month's pay,

00:52:50they don't come up with nothing more than excuses.

00:52:53He's crazy.

00:52:55Him, the Doc, and his brat, too.

00:52:58Just wait till I get on the phone at the Capitol.

00:53:00I'll guarantee somebody will wish they'd kept their nose out of other people's business.

00:53:05I'll guarantee that.

00:53:15Steve!

00:53:18Be careful, please.

00:53:19Don't worry, Mike will be ready if anything goes wrong.

00:53:21Don't worry about Steve.

00:53:23Now, if you were going after Barracuda, you might have a tiny bit to worry about.

00:53:26You're ready, Mike?

00:53:29No, I'm ready.

00:53:32No.

00:53:47I'm ready, Mike.

00:53:50When are you ready?

00:53:56Yes, sir.

00:54:14No, no, please, stay away.

00:54:19Please.

00:54:21Not exactly inviting, is it?

00:54:24That sure isn't.

00:54:27Hold her steady, Mike.

00:54:49It'll stop anything up to a tiger shot.

00:54:52But you gotta hit, and this don't count.

00:54:54If anything goes wrong, just yank on the line.

00:54:57I'll be down in a hurry.

00:55:15I'll be down in a hurry.

00:55:18Oh, my God.

00:55:53Oh, my God.

00:56:30You sure you don't want me to go down and finish it off for you, Steve?

00:56:32No, thanks, Mike.

00:56:34I think I hurt a pretty bad.

00:56:37Careful now.

00:56:37Anything hurts ten times as dangerous.

00:56:45He's wounded it.

00:56:46He's going to finish it off.

00:56:48Does he have to go under again?

00:56:51He's got to make sure, honey.

00:56:54Where could it have come from?

00:56:56I wish I knew.

00:56:58We'll have to make some tests.

00:57:00Maybe the proximity of Cape Canaveral's got something to do with it.

00:57:04The rocket station?

00:57:05Well, they use atomic energy in their first stages of launching.

00:57:08Not all of them have been successful.

00:57:11You think that if some animal life was close by, not close enough to be killed,

00:57:15but close enough to feel the effects of a radioactive energy that's...

00:57:18A mutation.

00:57:19A type of gigantism of some common animal.

00:57:24Whatever it is, I hope he's able to bring it up.

00:57:54I hope he's able to bring it up.

00:58:17I hope he's able to bring it up.

00:58:17Have you been able to bring it up?

00:58:18to ever have any Yue in the box?

00:58:23Aibal Gracias is treading to the sea nivel.

00:58:24I just wondered what it might be when disappointing to be.

00:58:24Once stop, let's use repeating between him.

00:58:25I hope you haven't got caught up at all.

00:58:25millones of�� would have caught down in his fullness.ichen

00:58:28That can't be Liz.

00:58:35What could have done that?

00:58:37Look at her face.

00:59:25Look at her face.

00:59:34The End

01:00:02What is that? Look at that thing.

01:00:06I've been around here for years. I never saw nothing like that.

01:00:56I've been around here for years.

01:01:15There's no sign of them this time. They must be licking their wounds.

01:01:20You sure you used enough stuff to do the job, Mike?

01:01:22I used a hundred sticks of 40%. I'll blow the bottom right out.

01:01:26All right. Let her go.

01:01:27Oh, no. I've done enough of your dirty work.

01:01:30Help yourself.

01:01:31Help yourself.

01:02:31I've done enough of your dirty work.

01:02:35I've done enough of your dirty work.

01:02:40I've done enough of your dirty work.

Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959) – Swamp Creature Feature

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