Devil Monster

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This is an edited version of a ten-year-old film, _Sea Fiend, The (1936)_.This is an edited version of a ten-year-old film, _Sea Fiend, The (1936)_.This is an edited version of a ten-year-old film, _Sea Fiend, The (1936)_.

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Barry Norton

Robert Jackson
(archive footage)

Blanche Mehaffey

Louise
(archive footage)
(as Blanche Mehaffy)

Jack Barty

Capt. Jackson
(archive footage)
(as J. Barton)

Terry Grey

Tiny
(archive footage)

Jack Del Rio

Jose Francisco
(archive footage)

Mary Carr

Mother of Jose
(archive footage)

William Lemuels

Native Chief
(archive footage)
(as Bill Lemuels)

Maya Owalee

Maya
(archive footage)

Donato Cabrera

Malo
(archive footage)

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Trivia
A Mexican-American co-production released originally in 1935 as "The Sea Fiend" and "The Great Manta". Eleven years later it was re-edited with more stock nude scenes of topless native women and reissued as "Devil Monster", most likely for use on the adults-only roadshow circuit.

Goofs
In some scenes the "native" woman are black, in other scenes they're Asian, and in other scenes they're white.

Connections
Edited from The Sea Fiend (1935)

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Pretty Dumb on All Levels

Devil Monster (1946)

1/2 (out of 4)

Robert (Barry Norton) is in love with Louise (Blanche Mehaffey) but she's in love with Jose (Jack Del Rio). The only problem is that he is lost at sea so Robert has to know whether or not he's alive so that Louise might pick him. Soon Robert is at sea battling a large monster (actually a manta ray).

THE SEA FIEND is also known as DEVIL MONSTER but whatever you call it doesn't take away the fact that it has to be one of the laziest and cheapest films ever made. I didn't actually time everything out but this 63-minute movie is probably 90% stock footage. If you thought what Edward D. Wood, Jr. did in GLEN OR GLENDA? was cheap then you haven't seen anything yet.

The amazing thing is that there's so little "new" footage shot. The majority of the film is narration as we get the story told by Robert who is usually just talking about the various stock footage that we're looking at. This stock footage has some pretty unique stuff including various sea life but at the same time you can't really give this film too much credit for that. There are some native women that are shown topless so this here might please some people but I doubt it.

From what I've read, the 1946 version under the title DEVIL MONSTER is a different edit that the 1936 film under THE SEA FIEND. I hope to view that version at some point but this film is pretty pointless.