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I just watched a 1974 movie with John Wayne titled McQ, clearly patterned after the Clint Eastwood "Dirty Harry" film series. And one of the women in the movie is Julie Adams, who looks familiar but I never knew by name. Probably the most famous movie she starred in is Creature From the Black Lagoon.


She's gorgeous. Even at age 48 in the movie McQ, she's still very pretty.

In a comic book adaptation of Creature From the Black Lagoon from 1993, Arthur Adams does a nice likeness of her. I'm sure she was a draw for the movie when it came out.




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In all her scream-queen glory.

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In those last two, I could picture her as Jane, in a Tarzan movie.

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The gorgeousness really shines through with color added.

Born in 1926, she was 27 when Creature From The Black Lagoon was released in March 1954.




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Here's the only photo I could find of her in McQ, with a review that I pretty much completely agree with.

http://markvoger.com/2015/07/mcq-1974/

I find it on a par with the Dirty Harry movies, with some cheap lines here and there, but overall very enjoyable, about a cop who operates with his own code a little bit outside the law. And like the Dirty Harry movies, very evocative of the mid 1970's. Even as the Dirty Harry sequels extended into the early/mid 1980's, they still remained evocative of the 1970's, with a few 80's elements tacked on, but grumpily clinging to an earlier era.

Julia Adams plays his ex-wife, and you can read unspoken feeling as his ex-wife, her new husband, and his daughter, as he walks away to his car and then drives off, where he's clearly going on an unspoken (and dangerous) personal mission.




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Julia Adams just died on Feb 3 2019, at the age of 92.

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As portrayed by Arthur Adams in the 1993 movie adaptation UNIVERSAL MONSTERS: CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON.

It never occurred to me before, but now I realize it was probably planned to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the original film's release.

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Same scene, with just a slight change of lighting, really changes the image.

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Originally Posted by Wonder Boy
[Linked Image from images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com]

As portrayed by Arthur Adams in the 1993 movie adaptation UNIVERSAL MONSTERS: CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON.
It never occurred to me before, but now I realize it was probably planned to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the original film's release.

The complete 50-page adaptation you can read online :
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Creature-From-The-Black-Lagoon/Full?id=168381

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Originally Posted by Wonder Boy
She's gorgeous. Even at age 48 in the movie McQ, she's still very pretty.
48 years old! She should be in a dang nursing home!


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And that was in 1974, 48 years ago!

She died at age 92 a few years ago, but remains young and gorgeous forever in her photos.

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[Linked Image from allstarbio.com]

Julie Adams, in an early 1970's photo.
A little older, but still bringin' the sexy.



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Originally Posted by Wonder Boy
Originally Posted by Wonder Boy
[Linked Image from images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com]

As portrayed by Arthur Adams in the 1993 movie adaptation UNIVERSAL MONSTERS: CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON.
It never occurred to me before, but now I realize it was probably planned to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the original film's release.

The complete 50-page adaptation you can read online :

An updated link to the movie adaptation by Arthur Adams:

CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1992, 40th anniversary of the movie's release)
https://viewcomiconline.com/creature-from-the-black-lagoon-full/


And here it is again in ARTHUR ADAMS' CREATURE FEATURES later trade (1994), with collected monster stories of Creature From the Black Lagoon, Godzilla, and a few other movie monster stories, including two short "Monkeyman and O'Brien" stories.

https://viewcomiconline.com/art-adams-creature-features-tpb/


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