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Curucu, Beast of the Amazon

Curucu, Beast of the Amazon is a 1956 American film directed and written by Curt Siodmak and starring John Bromfield, Beverly Garland and Tom Payne. It was shot in Eastmancolor, on location at the Amazon River in rural Brazil,[1] with an estimated budget of $155,000.

The title creature is pronounced "Koo-Ruh-SOO" (Portuguese: Curuçu). The film was advertised as a "monster movie", with the ad material (such as the poster by Reynold Brown) showing a giant claw and a creature's glowering eye. However, it was actually just a jungle adventure film, with no horror or science fiction elements whatsoever. The film is extremely rare, since distributor Universal Studios has apparently never released it on DVD.

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