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Manfish is a 1956 adventure film, released by United Artists in 1956 and originally filmed in DeLuxe Color. Filmed in Jamaica, it was released in Great Britain as Calypso. It was based on the stories " The Gold-Bug" and " The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. Actor John Bromfield starred as Captain Brannigan and Lon Chaney Jr. played the role of Swede. The leading female star was Tessa Prendergast, who played Alita. Tessa later became a fashion designer and designed the white bikini of Ursula Andress for Dr. No. The film also featured the motion picture debut of Barbara Nichols.
Usage examples of "manfish".
Directly below, the manfish fought to free a spare tank from its lashings.
The manfish nearly lost his fresh tank as well but finally lashed it to his chest and hung in his straps, hands tucked under his armpits for warmth.
At one point the manfish saw, with a terror he denied, a great gray mass that levitated toward him from below.
The manfish saw the canisters fall, saw silent puffs as each discharged several liters of chemical.
He had Remade himself into a kind of manfish, the better for life in Armada.
The thousands of bubbles this manfish had brought with him moved upward to the ice and rolled about, trapped against the frozen surface of the lake.