In honor of the entertaining Olympics, winding down this
week, a Brazilian monster would seem in order, so…
Monster-of-the-Week: …let’s award this magnificent painting
by the great Reynold Brown of Curucu…
…supposedly a legendary bird-beast of the Amazon that menaces the
ever-fabulous Beverly Garland in Universal’s 1956 Curucu, Beast of the Amazon…
Unfathomably, this art went unused in the poster in favor of
this…
I can only imagine that this was because Brown’s full-view
realization of the monster was so infinitely superior to what was revealed in
the course of the film, Universal may have feared rioting in the theaters.
