The Alligator People
“Nerve-shattering terror!”
Premium Crap. CrapScore 70, rated by 1 admin.
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A woman investigates her missing husband and discovers that medical progress has taken an unexpectedly reptilian direction. The swamp melodrama plays everything straight, saving a spectacularly ungainly transformation for anyone patient enough to finish the consultation.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
- Acting
- 7/10
- Plot
- 9/10
- Effects
- 7/10
- Dialogue
- 6/10
- Rewatchability
- 6/10
“The treatment has had a few reptile-related side effects.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 70
Synopsis and movie facts
Under therapeutic hypnosis, a seemingly well-adjusted young woman tells a fantastic story, verified by lie detector, of her forgotten marriage to a man who disappeared on the day of their honeymoon, and of her search for him which takes her to a lonely mansion in a remote section of swampland tenanted by snakes, alligators, a drunken one-armed lout, a mysterious doctor, and a cold-hearted elderly woman who lives alone in a brooding manse.
- Released
- 1959
- Directed by
- Roy Del Ruth
- Running time
- 74 min
Starring
- Beverly Garland as Joyce Webster, aka Jane Marvin
- Bruce Bennett as Dr. Eric Lorimer
- Lon Chaney Jr. as Manon
- George Macready as Dr. Mark Sinclair
- Frieda Inescort as Mrs. Lavinia Hawthorne
- Richard Crane as Paul Webster
- Douglas Kennedy as Dr. Wayne McGregor
- Bill Bradley as Patient 'Number Six' (uncredited)
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