Curucu, Beast of the Amazon 1956
Rock and Dr. Andrea journey up the Amazon to investigate a wave of panic among plantation workers who claim they fled after being attacked by Curucu, a legendary river monster said to inhabit a stretch of water never before visited by a white man.
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Tom Payne
Tupanico
Beverly Garland
Dr. Andrea Romar
Luz del Fuego
Snake dancer
Curt Siodmak
Sérgio de Oliveira
Captain of Police
Larri Thomas
Vivian - the dancer
John Bromfield
Rock Dean
Harvey Chalk
Father Flaviano
Wilson Viana
Tico
Andrea Bayard
Rita - the Secretary
Ayres Campos
Rosa María
Roberto Aurel
Frank Bevan
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Rock Dean, John Bromfield, a plantation owner, travels up the Amazon River to investigate why the workers have left in panic. Dean’s guide, Tupanico, Tom Payne, warns him of Curucu, a birdlike monster who is said to live up the river where no white man has ever been. Accompanying him is Dr. Andrea Romar, Beverly Garland, in search of a drug which—in this story—the natives use to shrink heads. She hopes this drug will be effective in reducing cancerous tissue.
Tupanico guides the couple through the jungle, where they see a strange shimmering form in the river which drives the bearers away. After Rock shoots an animal, Tupanico offers to clean his rifle for him. Rock reluctantly agrees.
Later, Curucu attacks. Rock shoots at it, with no effect. The monster is revealed to be Tupanico, who is trying to drive “his” people away from the plantations, where he can lead them in the old ways, before white men brought civilization and disease. Tupanico used the excuse of cleaning Rock’s rifle to load it with blanks.
Before they can be killed, Rock and Andrea are rescued by natives friendly to the local missionary. After wandering lost in the jungle in the commotion, Andrea awakens to find herself and Rock at the mission. A grateful native, whom she treated earlier, gives her some gifts: the shrinking drug she was searching for, and the shrunken head of Tupanico.
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