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* ''The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes'' is probably the defining version of this trope. In this film, the Great Detective's brother, Mycroft, is directing top-secret development of Britain's first submarine in Loch Ness; an attached prop monster head keeps the local gentry fooled into thinking it's the beastie. Given, of course, that it's just a prop in a studio water tank, the first appearance of this thing still scared the haggis out of this troper when he first saw it. |
* ''The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes'' is probably the defining version of this trope. In this film, the Great Detective's brother, Mycroft, is directing top-secret development of Britain's first submarine in Loch Ness; an attached prop monster head keeps the local gentry fooled into thinking it's the beastie. Given, of course, that it's just a prop in a studio water tank, the first appearance of this thing still scared the haggis out of this troper when he first saw it. |
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* ''The Strange Monster of Strawberry Cove'' from The [[Magical World Of Disney]] TV show involves an [[Expy]] of Loch Ness and Nessie; when a teacher thinks he saw the local monster and is ridiculed as a result, three of his kid students try to help his case by building a fake monster. Ultimately, it turns out that what the teacher had seen was actually smuggler's boat. |
* ''The Strange Monster of Strawberry Cove'' from The [[Magical World Of Disney]] TV show involves an [[Expy]] of Loch Ness and Nessie; when a teacher thinks he saw the local monster and is ridiculed as a result, three of his kid students try to help his case by building a fake monster. Ultimately, it turns out that what the teacher had seen was actually smuggler's boat. |
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* The 1971 film ''The Johnstown Monster'' has a fake masquerading as a legendary lake monster -- but the real thing puts in an appearance at the end. |
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* And an inversion of this trope is found in the film ''The Water Horse''. Nessie -- or Crusoe, as she's called here -- gets shelled by the British Army. Well, they thought she ''was'' a submarine! |
* And an inversion of this trope is found in the film ''The Water Horse''. Nessie -- or Crusoe, as she's called here -- gets shelled by the British Army. Well, they thought she ''was'' a submarine! |
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** Also played straight, to a degree. Two old men keep trying to get a picture of Crusoe, but fail every time. So they fake it by putting a boat upside down in the water to produce the famous picture of the neck sticking out of the water. Interestingly, as they're faking it, the real one was right on the other side of a tree, in good view if they could've seen it. |
** Also played straight, to a degree. Two old men keep trying to get a picture of Crusoe, but fail every time. So they fake it by putting a boat upside down in the water to produce the famous picture of the neck sticking out of the water. Interestingly, as they're faking it, the real one was right on the other side of a tree, in good view if they could've seen it. |
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== Literature == |
== Literature == |
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