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Creature from the Haunted Sea is a american film of genre Science fiction directed by Roger Corman released in USA on 1 june 1961 with Betsy Jones-Moreland
Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)
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Add to a movie listCreature from the Haunted Sea is a 1961 comedy horror film directed by Roger Corman. Written by Charles B. Griffith, the film is a parody of spy, gangster, and monster movies (mostly The Creature from the Black Lagoon), concerning a secret agent, XK150 (played by Robert Towne under the pseudonym "Edward Wain"), who goes under the code name "Sparks Moran" in order to infiltrate a criminal gang led by Renzo Capetto (Antony Carbone), who is trying to transport a colonel, a group of exiled Cuban nationals, and a large portion of the Cuban treasury out of the country.
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During a revolution in Cuba, an American international playboy, promoter and mobster Renzo Capeto (Anthony Carbone) comes up with a get-rich-quick scheme and uses his boat to help a group of loyalists headed by Colonel Tostada (Edmundo Rivera Alvarez) escape with Cuba's national treasury which they plan to use to stage a counterrevolution. However, CIA agent XK150, Sparks Moran (Edward Wain a.k.a. Robert Towne) has infiltrated the gang. Capeto plans to steal the money and claim that the mythical "Creature from the Haunted Sea" rose up out of the sea and devoured the loyalists. But what he doesn't know is that there is a real sea monster lurking in the very waters where he plans to kill his passengers. Little does he know that the actual creature may make his plan all too easy to pull off! When the creature upsets his plans, Capeto decides to sink his boat in 30 feet of water and then retrieve the treasure at a later time. Using a nearby island as a base, he and his gang attempt to salvage the loot, but the monster picks them off one by one, except for Agent Sparks Moran and his girlfriend Carmelita (Blanquita Romero).Actors
Betsy Jones-Moreland
(Mary-Belle Monahan)
Antony Carbone
(Renzo Capetto)
Robert Towne
(Sparks Moran / Agent XK150 / Narrator)
Sonia Noemí
Esther Sandoval
(Rosina Perez)
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