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Robert Hutchison (story)
Robert Hutchison (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
10 March 1972 (USA) more
Tagline:
Cold green skin against soft warm flesh...a croak...a scream. more
Plot:
Malevolent frogs proliferate at a country residence. The family who lives there is engrossed in their own problems, however... full summary | full synopsis
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(2 articles)
Halloween Beasts of Horror: The Animals That Scare Us
(From Screen Rant. 22 October 2009, 6:11 PM, PDT)
Free Flick of the Day: Frogs
(From Cinematical. 20 October 2009, 1:10 PM, PDT)
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A minor thriller with major atmosphere more (106 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Ray Milland | ... | Jason Crockett | |
| Sam Elliott | ... | Pickett Smith | |
| Joan Van Ark | ... | Karen Crockett | |
| Adam Roarke | ... | Clint Crockett | |
| Judy Pace | ... | Bella Garrington | |
| Lynn Borden | ... | Jenny Crockett | |
| Mae Mercer | ... | Maybelle | |
| David Gilliam | ... | Michael Martindale | |
| Nicholas Cortland | ... | Kenneth Martindale | |
| George Skaff | ... | Stuart Martindale | |
| Lance Taylor Sr. | ... | Charles | |
| Holly Irving | ... | Iris Martindale | |
| Dale Willingham | ... | Tina Crockett | |
| Hal Hodges | ... | Jay Crockett | |
| Carolyn Fitzsimmons | ... | Lady in Car |
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91 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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Certification:
UK:15 (re-rating) (2005) | Germany:16 | Iceland:16 | Ireland:15 | Netherlands:16 | Canada:G | Finland:K-16 | Norway:15 | Sweden:15 | UK:X | USA:PG
Filming Locations:
Eden Gardens State Park - County Road 395, Point Washington, Florida, USA more
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Due to the film's low budget no live birds were used for the bird attack scene. Instead the attack was created by superimposing footage of flying birds over the footage of the running cast. more
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Continuity: After the man goes into the greenhouse and he gets killed by the lizards knocking over the bottles of poison, we see that it's very smoky in the greenhouse. The smoke is so thick that we can barely see through it. However, less than a minute later, Smith opens the door to the greenhouse and it's perfectly clear. more
Quotes:
Pickett Smith:
[Looking at Kenneth, dead on the ground in the greenhouse] Is there a place where we can put him?
Charles:
Yes sir, I'll show you.
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Referenced in 2001 Maniacs (2005) more
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The plot here is little more than: "Help! We're surrounded by hostile creatures!" Yet there's something about this movie that lodges in the memory and it's probably its heavy, humid atmosphere -- like a hot summer day where nothing's happening yet you know there must be a storm brewing just over the horizon. The eclectic cast is headed by Ray Milland but the star here is Sam Elliott who makes his first real impression in the movies. His let-me-strip-off-my-sweaty-shirt-and-display-my-hairy-chest scenes were SO impressive that they landed him the lead role in that piece of beefcake-nirvana called "Lifeguard."
(June 2009 update: Note how this movie finds echoes, seven years later, in another Sam Elliott movie: "The Legacy." In both movies Elliott plays a young man who, because of a transportation accident, winds up as a reluctant guest at a mansion located in an isolated spot in the country. The mansion is owned, in both cases, by a distinguished older gentleman who suffers from a physical disability. There are other guests at the mansion and during the course of Elliott's stay, these guests are killed off, one by one -- in a variety of bizarre fashions -- by a mysterious force. In both movies, Elliott performs "beefcake" scenes which have a gratuitous quality. In "Frogs," he appears twice without his shirt and in "The Legacy" he has a rear-view nude scene.)