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๐ŸŒ•๐ŸŒฟ Mutant terror oozes from the depths in Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959), a cult classic creature feature dripping with atomic-age fear! Radioactive experimentation has gone horribly wrong, spawning grotesque, intelligent leeches that lurk in the Florida swampsโ€ฆ and theyโ€™re hungry for human blood. ๐Ÿ˜ฑ

๐Ÿ“ฝ๏ธ Plot Summary:
After mysterious disappearances in a small southern town, two game wardens uncover a chilling truth: giant leeches are dragging their victims to a watery lair beneath the swamp. With the body count rising, itโ€™s a race against time to destroy these mutant monsters before they drain the town dry!

๐Ÿ•ฐ๏ธ Year Released: 1959
๐ŸŽญ Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Creature Feature
๐ŸŽฌ Directed by: Bernard L. Kowalski
๐ŸŽž๏ธ Starring: Ken Clark, Yvette Vickers, Jan Shepard

๐ŸŽฏ Why Watch It?
โœ”๏ธ Classic B-movie horror with atomic-age paranoia
โœ”๏ธ Perfect for fans of The Blob, Them!, and Plan 9 from Outer Space
โœ”๏ธ Public domain sci-fi cult favorite
โœ”๏ธ Gloriously cheesy creature effects & swampy suspense

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Beware the swampโ€ฆ the leeches are watching, and theyโ€™re HUNGRY. Attack of the Giant Leeches is classic horror you donโ€™t want to miss!
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00:02:32Wait a minute! Wait a minute! Hold on, hold on, hold on.
00:02:44Just hold it a second, Lamb.
00:02:46Liz!
00:02:48You hear me, girl?
00:02:59Well, you won't now.
00:03:02You got to play that thing so loud?
00:03:07Why don't you come out like this for her?
00:03:11Oh, don't bother me.
00:03:13Liz!
00:03:18Someday I'm gonna give that she-cat the weapon she's been asking for.
00:03:22Sure you will do. It's been a little down to her.
00:03:25Let her who wears the pants around here.
00:03:29I'll be back in a minute.
00:03:32Any whoopings done back there, I'll lay you a jug.
00:03:36She'll be doing it.
00:03:39Come on now, Lamb, and tell us about that thing you killed out there at the swamp, buddy.
00:03:43Yeah, Liv, let's share the rest of that.
00:03:45Like I was singing, I put five slugs into that critter before it went under.
00:03:50The coonest thing I ever seen.
00:03:53And regular arms on it like a man.
00:03:56It was sort of different looking.
00:03:58Had suckers on them.
00:04:01Like one of them, uh...
00:04:03Like one of them octipuses things.
00:04:06Oh, it was plum awful.
00:04:08Lim, you sure that critter wasn't pink?
00:04:12Oh, I told you before, it was sort of gray looking.
00:04:17Well, laugh if you want.
00:04:21But that thing weren't nothing nature put out there.
00:04:25Oh, sure.
00:04:26And it weren't no freak gator neither.
00:04:29I've been poaching this country for 40 years, and I ain't never seen nothing like it.
00:04:35Well, too bad you didn't bring it back.
00:04:37Steve Benton probably paid a fair bounty for him.
00:04:40Whatever it was.
00:04:41Bounty?
00:04:43I wouldn't touch that critter for all the money ever made.
00:04:47And if you seen it, you wouldn't either.
00:04:50You better take it easy on this stuff.
00:04:52You're looking kind of peaked.
00:04:55No.
00:04:56I'm gonna clean my otter lines out before morning.
00:05:00Lamb, I think that critter's a...
00:05:02a ghost of one of those otters you've been poaching all these years,
00:05:05coming back to haunt you.
00:05:09Well, if that's so,
00:05:11you fairs will see it right quick yourselves.
00:05:27Oh, my boy, it's hard.
00:05:32Look, it's not like I want to be mean or anything like that, Liz, baby.
00:05:47Well, I got a reputation around here.
00:05:50These folks have no respect for a man who lets his woman boss him.
00:05:53Well, next thing I know, they'll be laughing at me.
00:05:54And they'll be telling all the rest of the...
00:05:56Won't you please listen to me, Liz, baby?
00:05:57Liz?
00:05:58Liz?
00:05:59Liz?
00:06:00No.
00:06:01Oh, my gosh.
00:06:02Liz?
00:06:03Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:06:06No, no, no.
00:06:07No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:06:08I don't want to even know them.
00:06:09No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:06:10No, no, no.
00:06:11No, no, no, no, no, it's okay.
00:06:13No.
00:06:14No, no, no, no.
00:06:16And they'll be still coming back.
00:06:17And they'll be telling all the rest of them...
00:06:19The End
00:06:48I'll look at you any way I want. You're my wife.
00:07:08Don't touch me.
00:07:09Who do you think you're talking to?
00:07:11Don't touch me. You're my wife.
00:07:13I'll touch you any time I feel like it.
00:07:18Where are you going?
00:07:27Where are you going?
00:07:30I'm going out.
00:07:33Maybe I'll be back.
00:07:35Maybe I won't.
00:07:36Liz, baby, I don't mean nothing.
00:07:38I don't mean nothing.
00:07:48Well, there was a young one in that last trap. I had to kill it.
00:08:10Oh, poor thing.
00:08:12Told you you shouldn't have come along.
00:08:14Well, I can understand hunting an animal, but making it suffer in those traps, it's horrible.
00:08:26Well, these poachers know the swamp's like the back of their hands.
00:08:29But I'll catch one of them in the axe some night and put him away for six months.
00:08:33In the meantime, I'll have to be satisfied confiscating their trap lines.
00:08:36If you lose enough traps, it won't pay them to keep trying.
00:08:38Well, be careful, darling.
00:08:40These people aren't like other folks.
00:08:42You know, they'll try and get back at you.
00:08:44Let them try.
00:08:46Steve, you're a stranger here.
00:08:48They've lived this way for generations.
00:08:50One man isn't going to change them overnight.
00:08:52You're a real worrywart.
00:08:54Oh, I'm serious, Steve.
00:08:56They can be dangerous.
00:08:58Okay.
00:08:58I'll be careful.
00:09:00You just stop worrying.
00:09:01Oh, Steve, I love you.
00:09:11I love you so much.
00:09:17What was that?
00:09:19I don't know.
00:09:19You get in that truck and lock it up.
00:09:21You get in that truck and lock it up.
00:09:50I don't know.
00:09:51I don't know.
00:10:00Listen, Benton.
00:10:01The corner rule is Sawyer died by misadventure.
00:10:04Now, as far as this officer's concerned, that's the end of it.
00:10:07But, Sheriff, I can't see why the...
00:10:08Look, if Lem was killed by anything human, I wouldn't need you to tell me my job.
00:10:13But I'm not about to go tromping through the swamp looking for an overgrown gator.
00:10:17Sawyer wasn't killed by an alligator.
00:10:19Is that so?
00:10:21Did you hear that, Morton?
00:10:22Game warden Benton says there wasn't a gator who killed Lem.
00:10:26Well, then, what was it?
00:10:27You know so much.
00:10:28Go on, tell me.
00:10:28What killed him?
00:10:30Doc Grayson said the wounds were the kind of squid or a large octopus might cause.
00:10:35Oh, sure.
00:10:36And did Grayson explain how a saltwater creature happened to be 30 miles inland living in clear water?
00:10:41Stranger things have happened.
00:10:42I know that...
00:10:43Look here, Benton.
00:10:44You work for the state.
00:10:46Now, why don't you keep your nose out of county business?
00:10:49Is that clear enough for you?
00:10:52Oh, go soak your fat head.
00:10:53What was that you said?
00:10:58I said go soak your fat head.
00:11:06Oh, that boy's looking for bad trouble.
00:11:10And he's sure going to get it.
00:11:12You can bet on that.
00:11:14So, you see, the octopi uses its suction discs to hold its prey.
00:11:27Now, in itself, the disc will not inflict a wound.
00:11:30Same is true of the squid.
00:11:31Now, both creatures have a parrot-like beak as their primary offensive and defensive weapon.
00:11:36Well, maybe the sheriff was right, Dad.
00:11:40Could be a freak or a malformed alligator.
00:11:44No.
00:11:45No, I'm afraid it wasn't.
00:11:48Well, where does that leave us, Doc?
00:11:50I wish I knew.
00:11:52You know, I'm beginning to think Len was telling the truth in Walker's store.
00:11:56He did see something that night.
00:11:59Something that had intelligence enough to seek him out and destroy him later.
00:12:03But Sawyer claims to have killed the thing he saw.
00:12:05Put a half a dozen rifle bullets into it.
00:12:08I've seen that old .44-40 he used.
00:12:10Nothing could live after being hit with those slugs.
00:12:12Well, conceding the possibility of one such creature, we must also concede the possibility of others.
00:12:22Well, there's one sure way of finding out.
00:12:25Go in and search every backwater, channel, and wet spot in the swamp.
00:12:28If it's there, I'll find it.
00:13:00It sure is bright around here.
00:13:30Did you hear something?
00:13:53Yes?
00:13:59Well, whatever it was, it's not here anymore.
00:14:02Do you want some coffee?
00:14:11Yeah, thanks, son.
00:14:12Do you want some coffee?
00:14:15An army could hide in here and never be noticed.
00:14:18Well, one did.
00:14:19What?
00:14:21The Seminoles under Osceola in the 1830s.
00:14:24Took the U.S. Army two years to round them up.
00:14:27I remember reading about Osceola in high school.
00:14:30Two years.
00:14:31We've only been out of two days and I feel worn out.
00:14:36Well, we might as well keep on looking around.
00:15:09Well, I guess we might as well give up for the day.
00:15:12Well, you won't get any argument from me.
00:15:14I'll be right back.
00:15:15Well, you won't get any argument from me.
00:15:16I'll be right back.
00:15:17Well, I'll be right back.
00:15:18I'll be right back.
00:15:18I'll be right back.
00:15:18Well, you won't get any argument from me.
00:15:23Well, you won't get any argument from me.
00:15:28Come on.
00:15:58I'm asking you for the last time, Dave Walker.
00:16:02You answer me, you dirty old man.
00:16:06I ain't dirty, Liz, baby.
00:16:08Liz, baby.
00:16:10Liz, honey.
00:16:12Can't you think of anything else to say, stupid?
00:16:14I gotta get this order over to Miss Chauvey.
00:16:16She's one of my better customers.
00:16:18Can't keep her waiting.
00:16:22I love you, Liz, baby.
00:16:25Get out.
00:16:27Get out, you fat pig!
00:16:45You, um, have some trouble, Dave?
00:16:49You know women, Cal.
00:16:50Gotta get the hair down every now and then.
00:16:52You sure don't know an awful lot about females.
00:16:57I gotta hand it to you.
00:16:59I can't stand here, John, Cal.
00:17:02Gotta get this order over to Miss Chauvey.
00:17:05What's she letting her hair down about this time?
00:17:08Well,
00:17:08ever since Lynn got herself killed,
00:17:12she wants me to sell out and move into town.
00:17:15Don't you let her bamboozle you, Dave.
00:17:18Keep her right here in the store.
00:17:21After all,
00:17:22the place wouldn't be seen without you around.
00:17:25Thanks, Cal.
00:17:26I better get going.
00:17:27See when I get back.
00:17:29Yeah, I'll be around.
00:17:30Miss Chauvey.
00:17:46Liz, baby.
00:17:50It's Cal, honey.
00:17:51You want something, Cal?
00:18:07I sure do, honey.
00:18:08I sure do, honey.
00:18:08Quiet.
00:18:27Oh, I'm dead.
00:18:29Me too.
00:18:31Come on over here.
00:18:32Come on over here.
00:18:38Well, it seems kind of silly
00:18:43knocking ourselves out
00:18:44looking for something
00:18:44we aren't even sure exists.
00:18:47What do you mean?
00:18:49You know, we've covered miles of back channel
00:18:52and haven't come across anything
00:18:53to support your father's theory
00:18:55of an alien creature.
00:18:57Not so much as a mud print
00:18:58we couldn't identify.
00:19:01I know.
00:19:04You're not going to give up, are you, Steve?
00:19:06Well, I can't waste any more
00:19:08time on a wild goose chase
00:19:10with all respect to your father's ideas.
00:19:17Dad seems so sure.
00:19:38You're some woman, Liz.
00:19:47I reckon I haven't met a woman like you before.
00:19:51You really like me, Cal?
00:19:52You're kidding me.
00:19:55No, I didn't hurt you now, did I?
00:19:58It's just so strong.
00:19:59You know, I like him, and it's strong.
00:20:00You sure picked a doozy, right?
00:20:01You sure picked a doozy, right?
00:20:02I don't know.
00:20:03I don't know.
00:20:04I don't know.
00:20:05I don't know.
00:20:06I don't know.
00:20:07I don't know.
00:20:08I don't know.
00:20:09He's got a muscle in him.
00:20:10Just a big piece of flab.
00:20:11Oh, honey.
00:20:12I don't know.
00:20:13I didn't mean anything against you.
00:20:14You're kidding me.
00:20:15You're kidding me.
00:20:16No, I didn't hurt you now, did I?
00:20:18You're just so strong.
00:20:19You know, I like him, and it's strong.
00:20:23Well, you sure picked a doozy, then, man, Dave.
00:20:29I don't think he's got a muscle in him.
00:20:32Just a big piece of flab.
00:20:34Oh, honey, I didn't mean anything against you.
00:20:39Just that I can't see a real woman like you tying in with a tub of lard like him.
00:20:47You wouldn't understand, Cal.
00:20:52You know, I've wanted to tell you.
00:20:56You just wouldn't understand.
00:21:00He's trying to.
00:21:02Come on, you tell on Cal all about it.
00:21:11You wouldn't think bad of me.
00:21:13Crazy.
00:21:15He'd tell me you killed your pa and your ma and your whole family.
00:21:20I'd fight to protect you.
00:21:22I'd fight to protect you.
00:21:52I'd fight to protect you.
00:21:53I'd fight to protect you.
00:21:54I'd fight to protect you.
00:21:55I'd fight to protect you.
00:21:56My first husband was a no good bum.
00:21:58Couldn't keep a job more than a week.
00:22:01Used to get a lust up, come home beat up on me.
00:22:06Heisman was a no-good bum.
00:22:09Couldn't keep a job more than a week.
00:22:13He used to get lushed up, come home beat up on me.
00:22:17You must have been a prize pig.
00:22:21One night he tried to hold up a gas station.
00:22:25He was so drunk he couldn't even run.
00:22:28He caught him less than a mile away.
00:22:31He got set up.
00:22:34I got a divorce.
00:22:37It's rough.
00:22:40After three years working in a lousy bini, I was ready for the first guy that said a nice word to me.
00:22:47Miss Dave.
00:22:49That's it.
00:22:51I wish it had been me.
00:22:53I don't know how to take care of a woman like you, Liz.
00:22:56Maybe it ain't too late, Cal.
00:23:07You're wrong, woman.
00:23:09It's too late for the both of you.
00:23:13Get up.
00:23:15Come on, get up.
00:23:17Now look, Dave, I know what you're thinking, but...
00:23:20I got double large shot in this here thing.
00:23:24You got two seconds before I pull the trigger.
00:23:26No point getting riled, Dave.
00:23:29Wasn't my fault, but...
00:23:31She's been testing me for months to take her out.
00:23:34Sure, Cal.
00:23:35I understand.
00:23:36Get her up so I could get a better look at the line, little triumph.
00:23:41Come on, get up.
00:23:43Come on, get up.
00:23:44Don't kill him.
00:23:45No, he killed me.
00:23:46He killed me.
00:23:47I'm joking.
00:23:48Well, your husband wants to take a look at you.
00:23:50You walk all the way, Dave?
00:23:52One more step and I'll blow your plumbing too.
00:23:54Get over there.
00:23:56Now, Dave, it ain't as bad as you think.
00:23:58Shut up.
00:24:00Try it.
00:24:02What?
00:24:04What?
00:24:05What?
00:24:06What?
00:24:07What?
00:24:08What?
00:24:09What?
00:24:10What?
00:24:11What?
00:24:13What?
00:24:15What are you gonna do?
00:24:16You'll find out soon enough.
00:24:20Dave, you put down that gun before I get mad and make you eat it!
00:24:24You go ahead and try it, Cal.
00:24:26Go right ahead and try.
00:24:29Move!
00:24:30Move!
00:24:42Move!
00:24:43Move!
00:24:44Move!
00:24:45Move!
00:24:46Move!
00:24:47Move!
00:24:48Move!
00:24:49Move!
00:24:50Move!
00:24:51Move!
00:24:52Move!
00:24:53Move!
00:24:54Move!
00:24:55Move!
00:24:56Move!
00:24:57Move!
00:24:58Move!
00:24:59Move!
00:25:00Move!
00:25:01Move!
00:25:02Move!
00:25:03Move!
00:25:04Move!
00:25:05Move!
00:25:06Move!
00:25:07Move!
00:25:08Move!
00:25:09Move!
00:25:10Come on.
00:25:12Come on!
00:25:14I can't go hardly further!
00:25:16No!
00:25:18No!
00:25:40Come on, run!
00:25:46Run till you drop!
00:26:10Come on!
00:26:12I can't go anymore!
00:26:14I can't!
00:26:15You've got to let me stop!
00:26:16Shit!
00:26:17You can't go with it like a fool child!
00:26:20I can't go!
00:26:22I can't!
00:26:40Come on, keep going!
00:26:53Dave!
00:26:54Please, you've got to listen!
00:26:56It wasn't my fault, Arnold!
00:26:58She'd complain up to me every time you'd turn your back!
00:27:01It wasn't my fault!
00:27:02You call yourself a man!
00:27:05You and your muscles!
00:27:07Shut up, you champ!
00:27:09If it wasn't you, I wouldn't be in this fix!
00:27:12And my old friend Dave wouldn't be doing this thing to me!
00:27:15It's all your fault!
00:27:17Get going!
00:27:19But Dave, Dave, we've been friends...
00:27:22We've been friends a long time, Dave!
00:27:24You wouldn't...
00:27:25You wouldn't kill an old friend, Dave!
00:27:27If you don't move, I'll kill you where you stand!
00:27:30But Dave!
00:27:34Pray, big man!
00:27:36Dave!
00:27:37I didn't mean it, Dave!
00:27:38I didn't mean it!
00:27:39Dave!
00:27:40I didn't mean it!
00:27:41Dave!
00:27:42Dave!
00:27:43I didn't mean it!
00:27:44Dave!
00:27:45Dave!
00:27:46Dave!
00:27:47The kid is out here!
00:27:48Oh!
00:27:49Oh!
00:27:50Dave!
00:27:51Please, Dave!
00:27:52Oh!
00:27:53I'm sorry!
00:27:54I'm sorry!
00:27:55I'm sorry!
00:27:56Please!
00:27:57I'm sorry, honey!
00:27:58I'm sorry, Dave!
00:27:59I'm sorry!
00:28:00I'm sorry, Dave!
00:28:01I'm sorry!
00:28:02I didn't mean it!
00:28:03Please!
00:28:04I'm sorry!
00:28:05I'm sorry!
00:28:06I didn't mean it!
00:28:07Please!
00:28:08I'm sorry!
00:28:09Please!
00:28:10I'm sorry!
00:28:11You think you learned enough to stay away from a woman, Carol?
00:28:16Oh!
00:28:17Oh!
00:28:18Anything, Dave!
00:28:19I'm moving to the...
00:28:20I'm a man of the county!
00:28:21I'll do anything you say, Dave!
00:28:22Anything!
00:28:23Anything!
00:28:24All right!
00:28:25Come on out of there!
00:28:26Oh!
00:28:27Dave!
00:28:28Dave!
00:28:29Give me a hand!
00:28:30Oh!
00:28:31How'd you go?
00:28:32Oh!
00:28:33Dave!
00:28:34Oh!
00:28:35Oh!
00:28:36Oh!
00:28:37Oh!
00:28:38Oh!
00:28:39Oh!
00:28:40Oh!
00:28:41Oh!
00:28:42Oh!
00:28:43Oh!
00:28:44Oh!
00:28:45Oh!
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00:28:47Oh!
00:28:48Oh!
00:28:49Oh!
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00:28:52Oh!
00:28:53Oh!
00:28:54Oh!
00:28:55Oh!
00:28:56Oh!
00:28:59There ain't nothin' down here, Sheriff!
00:29:01Well, I'm gettin' tired of this.
00:29:06Come on in, boys!
00:29:12Well, if there was any bodies out there, we'd have found them.
00:29:16I want some straight answers, Walker.
00:29:18And don't give me any more of that crud about monsters, either.
00:29:23Where'd you hide them after you killed them?
00:29:26I told you the truth, Sharon.
00:29:29I didn't kill them.
00:29:32I just wanted to scare them good.
00:29:36I loved my Liz.
00:29:39I wouldn't do anything to hide her.
00:29:42I loved her.
00:29:44Sure.
00:29:45You loved her.
00:29:47That's why you chased her through the swamp with a shotgun.
00:29:50Come on, Walker.
00:29:52Where'd you hide the bodies?
00:29:55Won't you believe me?
00:29:56There were some monsters.
00:29:58Take him out of here before I lose my temper.
00:30:00Oh, my goodness.
00:30:05I'm pretty.
00:30:09County pay a reward if someone finds a body share.
00:30:14Fifty dollars.
00:30:17Each?
00:30:19Yeah.
00:30:20You know, I never thought that of old Dave.
00:30:27Of course, that'll be knowed that Cal and Liz had a hankering for each other.
00:30:31Everybody but old Dave.
00:30:34Dern fools.
00:30:36Grappling out there in the middle of the water.
00:30:39If in them bodies they're still in there,
00:30:41you can bet some old bull gator's got him stuffed in his cave under the bank,
00:30:47letting him ripen up for a few days.
00:30:50Yeah, well,
00:30:52what we need now is some long cypress poles to go in there and probe them gator caves.
00:30:57I'm sorry, Doc.
00:31:13I can't do it.
00:31:15I'll have to do it myself.
00:31:17Wouldn't want to have to arrest you, Doc,
00:31:18but I will if I find you near the preserve with any explosives.
00:31:21Steve.
00:31:22I'm sorry, Nan.
00:31:23That's the way it's got to be.
00:31:25Steve's right, Nan.
00:31:26It's his job to protect wildlife.
00:31:28What about human life?
00:31:31Three people have been killed in that game preserve.
00:31:33Doesn't that mean anything to you?
00:31:35Nan, try to understand.
00:31:36Nan, if I could be sure something in the swamp was responsible for those deaths,
00:31:40I wouldn't hesitate a minute.
00:31:42We've been together the last three days.
00:31:44We didn't see a trace of anything unusual.
00:31:47Not so much as a suggestion of any form of life unknown to us.
00:31:51Steve,
00:31:52something killed those people.
00:31:54All right.
00:31:55I'll admit so.
00:31:55Your death left a lot of questions unanswered.
00:31:58But you can bet your bottom dollar
00:31:59the other two died from Dave Walker's shotgun.
00:32:02Do you really believe that?
00:32:03Figure it out, Nan.
00:32:04And Walker admitted chasing his wife and cow into the swamps
00:32:07after he found them together.
00:32:09He shot them,
00:32:10and he tried to place the blame on Sawyer's DTs.
00:32:13If Sawyer had told of seeing
00:32:14a purple giraffe with polka dot tails,
00:32:16Walker would have claimed they did it.
00:32:18There's one argument against that, Steve.
00:32:21Dave Walker wasn't the kind of a man to hang himself.
00:32:23Not even with two murder charges against him.
00:32:26I talked with Dave less than an hour before he killed himself.
00:32:29That man was in a state of shock.
00:32:31I've seen frightened men before, terrified men.
00:32:34But I've never seen anything to compare
00:32:35with the horror and the fear in Walker's eyes.
00:32:38Well, he realized what he'd done,
00:32:40and he killed two people.
00:32:41One his wife.
00:32:43Oh, look, Doc.
00:32:43Nan and I were all over that swamp.
00:32:45Now, why didn't these monsters attack us?
00:32:48I've been thinking about that.
00:32:50They're probably night creatures.
00:32:51They can't stand the light.
00:32:52They stay down near the bottom during the day.
00:32:55A small charge would stun them,
00:32:57bring them to the surface.
00:32:59Can't buy it, Doc.
00:33:00You're pig-headed, Steve Benton.
00:33:04Stodward and pig-headed.
00:33:06You just don't understand, do you?
00:33:08No.
00:33:16Good night, Doc.
00:33:17Good night.
00:33:47Right over there in them reeds.
00:33:56Right over there in them reeds.
00:34:00is where that big one used to be.
00:34:26Yeah.
00:34:28Caught some great catfish in that hole.
00:34:49Boy,
00:34:49this is sure a hot one.
00:34:51Right unseasonable.
00:35:00Sure is funny.
00:35:02Huh?
00:35:03Ain't you noticed anything?
00:35:05No, what?
00:35:06We've been prodding around you all morning.
00:35:08Ain't run across a single gator.
00:35:10By rights,
00:35:13this pool should be crawling with them.
00:35:17Sure funny.
00:35:18Yeah,
00:35:19that is funny.
00:35:20I don't like the looks of things.
00:35:22Let's call it a day.
00:35:24Well,
00:35:24now,
00:35:24wait a minute.
00:35:25We ain't pulled the gator holes around the bin yet.
00:35:27You do what you want to do,
00:35:28boy.
00:35:29Just get me on dry land.
00:35:31And right,
00:35:31quick.
00:35:32All right.
00:35:33Now,
00:35:33ain't no use getting all head up.
00:35:35Let's go.
00:35:38You've got to quit drinking that moonshine.
00:35:43That's why you just wrinkle it.
00:35:49No way out here.
00:35:51The wild goose chasing.
00:35:52No way out here.
00:36:22No way out here.
00:36:48No way out here.
00:36:48Oh, no, no, no, no!
00:37:08Oh, no, no, no, no, no!
00:37:35We've been calling, but there's been no answer.
00:37:43Oh, I just got back.
00:37:44What seems to be the trouble?
00:37:45Well, haven't you heard?
00:37:47Old Sam Peters and Portie Reed have disappeared.
00:37:50Come on inside.
00:37:57You know, Covis, nothing would please him more than to have all the swamp people disappear.
00:38:03Swamp trash, he calls them.
00:38:05I know.
00:38:06They have about as much regard for him as he has for them.
00:38:10When they're worried enough to go to him, you know something's wrong.
00:38:15Mrs. Reed said the men went searching for Cal and Mrs. Walker's bodies, and they never returned.
00:38:20Covis says he'll get up a search party if they don't show up in a couple of days.
00:38:25Doc, you and Ann take your car and get as many volunteers as you can.
00:38:29Tell them to meet me at the old wagon road.
00:38:31I'll call Doak Evans and have him bring his dogs.
00:38:33Either they're lost or they've had an accident.
00:38:38I hope to heaven you're right.
00:38:39Good night.
00:38:44I'll...
00:38:44I'll...
00:38:46I'll...
00:38:47Let's go.
00:39:17Let's go.
00:39:47Well, they picked up the scent anyway.
00:40:06Ted, do you think they'll find them?
00:40:08Well, at least we know they got this far.
00:40:31All right, let's fit up into two parties and circle the lake.
00:40:35Keep your eyes open.
00:40:37Let's move out.
00:40:37Let's go.
00:40:45Let's go.
00:40:49Let's go.
00:40:51Let's go.
00:40:55Let's go.
00:40:57Let's go.
00:40:59Let's go.
00:41:01Let's go.
00:41:02Let's go.
00:41:03All clear.
00:41:07It's all clear.
00:41:24It's clear over here.
00:41:37It's clear over here.
00:42:07All right, let's keep moving.
00:42:33Well, we can't do anything more tonight. Might as well start back.
00:42:36I reckon there ain't no use hurrying now, Mr. Benton.
00:42:39Reed and old Sam was alive.
00:42:42They let us know him with a holler or something.
00:42:44Yeah, it kind of looks that way.
00:42:46You fellas notice anything about this lake?
00:42:49I mean, the gators.
00:42:50What about them?
00:42:51They ain't.
00:42:52A piece of water this size usually has maybe 50, 60 biggins around.
00:42:57A whole lot of little ones.
00:42:59It's real unnatural.
00:43:00Well, maybe our, uh, torture scared them away.
00:43:03Nothing scares gators.
00:43:05It's a nothing.
00:43:06Animal or human.
00:43:10Well, we might as well get out of here.
00:43:11You got something in mind, Steve?
00:43:24I keep thinking what Evan said about the gators.
00:43:28Nothing scares them, animal or human.
00:43:31And yet something made them leave.
00:43:33Maybe a, maybe a mineral contamination.
00:43:36I guess I better run some water samples.
00:43:38Come on, you two.
00:43:39Drink your coffee.
00:43:42And, uh, supposing there is no contamination?
00:43:45Well, then I'll send over to Eastport for a diving rig
00:43:48and go down to look for this monster of yours.
00:43:50No, Steve.
00:43:50Don't even joke like that.
00:43:52I'm not joking, man.
00:43:54I had some training with an aqualung while I was in the Navy.
00:43:56But, Steve.
00:43:57Look, there are two bodies we know for sure down there.
00:44:00Maybe four.
00:44:01They've got to be brought up.
00:44:02Wait a minute.
00:44:04There are no alligators in that part of the swamp, right?
00:44:06So?
00:44:07No sign of any fish or snakes?
00:44:10No.
00:44:11Well, what are you getting at, Doc?
00:44:13Well, that goes your argument about setting off a dynamite charge underwater.
00:44:17You'd bring the bodies to the surface.
00:44:19Get it out of your mind, Doc.
00:44:21I'm not using any explosives as long as there's another way.
00:44:24Why must you be such a...
00:44:25Stubborn pig head?
00:44:27Exactly.
00:44:28I'll tell you why.
00:44:30Number one, there's bound to be some aquarian life in that section,
00:44:32even if the bigger forms have abandoned it.
00:44:34Explosion underwater would destroy every living thing
00:44:38and wreck what nature took years to build up.
00:44:41Number two, I'm paid to prevent the useless slaughter of wildlife.
00:44:46Number three, I'd have to get authorization.
00:44:48And to get that authorization,
00:44:49I'd have to come up with a heck of a good reason.
00:44:52Satisfied?
00:44:53Finish up, Dad.
00:44:56I want to go home.
00:44:58Uh, Steve, uh...
00:45:00How long would it take to get this diving equipment from Eastport?
00:45:03Hmm, a couple days.
00:45:05Why?
00:45:06Oh, nothing.
00:45:11Take care of yourself, Steve.
00:45:12Well, here's hoping.
00:45:21Dad.
00:45:23Can't you throw the dynamite in from here?
00:45:25No, I want to get it out into the middle.
00:45:27In the deepest part.
00:45:34All right.
00:45:34All right.
00:45:35All right.
00:45:37All right.
00:45:38All right.
00:45:41All right.
00:46:11All right.
00:46:41Let you go any minute.
00:46:55Let you go any minute.
00:47:11All right.
00:47:13All right.
00:47:13THE END
00:47:43I just can't figure it out.
00:47:56Walker's wife, why didn't her body come to the surface?
00:47:59I don't know.
00:48:03I think I'd better walk over to the coroner's office.
00:48:06What's the matter, Mr. Benton?
00:48:08Do you feel awkward about arresting my father in his own home?
00:48:11I warned him I'd arrest him if he used dynamite.
00:48:14That's nice of you.
00:48:17Well, the autopsy should be over by now.
00:48:22Oh, Steve.
00:48:24I thought you'd be here.
00:48:26I don't like to have to do this, Doctor.
00:48:29Do we have time for a cup of coffee first?
00:48:32Sure.
00:48:33You mind, honey?
00:48:34No, I'll make some sandwiches.
00:48:35One thing is certain, for all the good it'll do now.
00:48:51Dave Walker didn't shoot Cal.
00:48:53I just come from the autopsies.
00:48:58Covers tried to keep me out.
00:49:00But I told them I'd raise a stink they'd smell all the way to the Capitol if he did.
00:49:04Well, what killed them, Doc?
00:49:06Not drowning.
00:49:08And Cal wasn't shot, either.
00:49:09Every drop of blood was drained out of their bodies.
00:49:15And they had wounds on their throats.
00:49:17Suction wounds.
00:49:18Like a gigantic leech might make.
00:49:23And there's something even more incredible.
00:49:25Now, Cal was supposed to have been killed several days ago.
00:49:28Sam and Reed had been missing a matter of 48 hours.
00:49:32All three of them, as far as we know, were in that lake a minimum of two days.
00:49:37Now, I'd stake my reputation as a doctor
00:49:39that Cal hadn't been dead more than two or three hours when we found him.
00:49:44And the other two less than that.
00:49:46First stage, rigor mortis started in during the autopsy.
00:49:49But how could that be, Doc?
00:49:50It's impossible.
00:49:52The coroner will confirm it.
00:49:54Whatever killed them is still in that lake.
00:49:56And it's going to take more than dynamite to get it out.
00:50:01A concussion from those charges would have killed a full-grown whale.
00:50:07That explains how Cal and the others lived after they were supposed to be drowned.
00:50:11What do you mean?
00:50:12Well, this whole region is riddled by caves and caverns
00:50:15cut out by the ocean thousands of years ago.
00:50:18If there are caves above the water, then there must be caves under the water.
00:50:22Go on.
00:50:24Mike and I had a chance to fool around with some frogman equipment
00:50:27captured from the Italian Navy.
00:50:29We sort of prowled through a sunken transport off Salerno.
00:50:34When the ship went down, it trapped some air inside the hull.
00:50:38We'd go down, come up inside the officer's lounge,
00:50:41take off her face mask,
00:50:42and sort of sample some of the bottles floating around.
00:50:45We'd drive the guys crazy trying to figure out how we were getting the stuff.
00:50:50You mean you think that there's an air pocket or a cave underneath the lake?
00:50:54Right.
00:50:54Got to be.
00:50:55How else could those people have lived down there?
00:50:57Not only that explains how whatever it is down there lived through the concussions.
00:51:01Steve.
00:51:01Liz Walker.
00:51:06She might still be down there.
00:51:09Alive.
00:51:18No.
00:51:19No.
00:51:20No.
00:51:22No.
00:51:27No.
00:51:27No.
00:51:29No.
00:51:29No.
00:51:29No.
00:51:31No.
00:52:01No.
00:52:08Comfortable?
00:52:08Yeah.
00:52:10You sure you don't want me to go down for you, Mike?
00:52:12You haven't had one of these things on for a long time.
00:52:14Well, me, every other day, I've been playing fish.
00:52:18Not this time, Mike.
00:52:21If you ask me, they ought to have their heads examined.
00:52:24Giant leeches.
00:52:25Well, I'm willing to bet a month's pay, they don't come up with nothing more than excuses.
00:52:32He's crazy.
00:52:33Him, the doc, and his brat, too.
00:52:36Just wait till I get on the phone to the Capitol.
00:52:39I'll guarantee somebody will wish they'd kept their nose out of other people's business.
00:52:43I'll guarantee that.
00:52:44Let's go, Mike.
00:52:51Look.
00:52:52Whoa.
00:52:53Steve.
00:52:56Be careful, please.
00:52:58Don't worry.
00:52:58Mike will be ready if anything goes wrong.
00:53:00Don't worry about Steve.
00:53:01Now, if you were going after Barracuda, you might have a tiny bit to worry about.
00:53:06Ready, Mike?
00:53:06Okay.
00:53:06Let's go.
00:53:36No, no, please, stay away.
00:53:57Please.
00:54:00Not exactly inviting, is it?
00:54:03That sure isn't.
00:54:04Hold her steady, Mike.
00:54:06It'll stop anything up to a tiger shark.
00:54:30But you've got to hit.
00:54:31Misses don't count.
00:54:33Now, anything goes wrong, just yank on the line.
00:54:35I'll be down in a hurry.
00:54:36Hey.
00:54:37Must be.
00:54:37Maybe.
00:54:39Huh?
00:54:39Juliet.
00:54:42Hey!
00:54:43Hey!
00:54:50Hey!
00:54:54Hey!
00:54:54Hey!
00:54:55Hey!
00:54:57Hey!
00:54:58Hey!
00:54:59Hey!
00:55:00Hey!
00:55:01Hey!
00:55:01Oh, my God.
00:55:31Oh, my God.
00:56:01You sure you don't want me to go down and finish it off for you, Steve?
00:56:11No, thanks, Mike.
00:56:12I think I hurt her pretty bad.
00:56:15Careful now.
00:56:16Anything hurts ten times as dangerous.
00:56:17He's wounded it.
00:56:24He's going to finish it off.
00:56:27Does he have to go under again?
00:56:29He's got to make sure, honey.
00:56:31Where could it have come from?
00:56:35I wish I knew.
00:56:37We'll have to make some tests.
00:56:39Maybe the proximity of Cape Canaveral's got something to do with it.
00:56:42The rocket station?
00:56:44Well, they use atomic energy in their first stages of launching.
00:56:47Not all of them have been successful.
00:56:49You think that if some animal life is close by, not close enough to be killed,
00:56:53but close enough to feel the effects of a radioactive energy that's...
00:56:56A mutation.
00:56:58A type of gigantism of some common animal.
00:57:00Whatever it is, I hope he's able to bring it up.
00:57:30I hope he's able to bring it up.
00:58:00That can't be Liz.
00:58:12What could have done that?
00:58:15Look at her face.
00:58:30Look at her face.
00:58:51Look at her face.
00:58:56The End
00:59:26Look at that thing. I've been around here for years. I never saw nothing like that.
00:59:56The End
01:00:26There was no sign of them this time.
01:00:55They must be licking their wounds.
01:00:58You sure you used enough stuff to do the job, Mike?
01:01:00I used 100 sticks to 40%. I'll blow the bottom right out.
01:01:04All right. Let her go.
01:01:05Oh, no. I've done enough of your dirty work.
01:01:09Help yourself.
01:01:09Help yourself.
01:01:09Help yourself.
01:01:09Help yourself.
01:01:09Help yourself.
01:01:13Help yourself.
01:01:24Oh, no. I've done enough of your dirty work.
01:01:28Oh, no. I've done enough of your dirty work.
01:01:30Oh, no. I've done enough of your dirty work.
01:01:32Oh, no. I've done enough of your dirty work.
01:01:34Oh, no. I've done enough of your dirty work.
01:01:36Oh, no. I've done enough of your dirty work.
01:01:37Oh, no. I've done enough of your dirty work.
01:01:38Oh, no. I've done enough of your dirty work.
01:01:40Oh, no. I've done enough of your dirty work.
01:01:42THE END
01:02:12THE END

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