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The Alligator People (1959)
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July 1959 (USA)
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Terror in the Bayou! more
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A newlywed couple sit in a train. The husband receives a frantic telegram. He gets off at a station to make a phone call...
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Should be seen in Cinemascope
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(Complete credited cast) | Beverly Garland | ... | Joyce Webster, aka Jane Marvin |
 | Bruce Bennett | ... | Dr. Eric Lorimer |
 | Lon Chaney Jr. | ... | Manon (as Lon Chaney) |
| George Macready | ... | Dr. Mark Sinclair |
| Frieda Inescort | ... | Mrs. Lavinia Hawthorne, Henry's Wife |
| Richard Crane | ... | Paul Webster |
| Douglas Kennedy | ... | Dr. Wayne MacGregor |
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74 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
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This film was made because Twentieth Century-Fox needed a low-budget "monster movie" in the CinemaScope format to play on the bottom of a double bill with Return of the Fly (1959), the sequel to its "sleeper" hit The Fly (1958). Fox did not produce this film, however. It was made by independent producer Jack Leewood and bought by Fox.
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Joyce Webster, aka Jane Marvin:
What secret was Mrs. Hawthorne hiding in this strange, unfriendly house?
Joyce Webster, aka Jane Marvin: Why had she told me not to leave my room?
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Joyce Webster, aka Jane Marvin: Why had she told me not to leave my room?
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Referenced in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (2004) (VG)
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This 1959 Fox picture was actually filmed in Cinemascope; I've never seen it that way. The television and video version are severely cropped from aspect ratio 2.35:1 to 1.33:1 - you're missing almost half the picture. I'm sure they will correct this if it ever comes to DVD. We need see the expansive mansion and exotic swampland locales in their entirety, as well as the giddy climax of the alligator man's LONG, horizontal snout. Top-billed Beverly Garland (here a brunette) is very good as a woman seeking her missing fiance, now holed up in a mansion with a doctor (George MacCready) who's trying to cure him (he was in an accident) with reptilian serum. The man's domineering mother (Frieda Inescort) also resides, protecting and hiding her son from all, including Garland. Lon Chaney is superb as a drunken, one-handed hunter who detests alligators. The music is also eerie and effective. However, the film's plotline begins to fizzle out, with the fiance escaping from the laboratory and not doing much and the film sinks, like quicksand.