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Das Ungeheuer

Original title: Trog
  • 1970
  • 12
  • 1h 33m
IMDb RATING
4.0/10
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Das Ungeheuer (1970)
Official Trailer
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A sympathetic anthropologist uses drugs and surgery to try to communicate with a primitive troglodyte who is found living in a local cave.A sympathetic anthropologist uses drugs and surgery to try to communicate with a primitive troglodyte who is found living in a local cave.A sympathetic anthropologist uses drugs and surgery to try to communicate with a primitive troglodyte who is found living in a local cave.

  • Director
    • Freddie Francis
  • Writers
    • Aben Kandel
    • Peter Bryan
    • John Gilling
  • Stars
    • Joan Crawford
    • Michael Gough
    • Bernard Kay
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    4.0/10
    3.2K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Freddie Francis
    • Writers
      • Aben Kandel
      • Peter Bryan
      • John Gilling
    • Stars
      • Joan Crawford
      • Michael Gough
      • Bernard Kay
    • 100User reviews
    • 53Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • Videos1

    Trog
    Trailer 2:32
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    Joan Crawford and Joe Cornelius in Das Ungeheuer (1970)
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    Joan Crawford and Joe Cornelius in Das Ungeheuer (1970)
    Joan Crawford and Joe Cornelius in Das Ungeheuer (1970)
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    Joan Crawford
    Joan Crawford
    • Dr. Brockton
    Michael Gough
    Michael Gough
    • Sam Murdock
    Bernard Kay
    Bernard Kay
    • Inspector Greenham
    Kim Braden
    Kim Braden
    • Anne Brockton
    David Griffin
    David Griffin
    • Malcolm Travers
    John Hamill
    John Hamill
    • Cliff
    Thorley Walters
    Thorley Walters
    • Magistrate
    Jack May
    Jack May
    • Dr. Selbourne
    Geoffrey Case
    • Bill
    Robert Hutton
    Robert Hutton
    • Dr. Richard Warren
    Simon Lack
    Simon Lack
    • Colonel Vickers
    David Warbeck
    David Warbeck
    • Alan Davis
    Chloe Franks
    Chloe Franks
    • Little Girl
    Maurice Good
    Maurice Good
    • Reporter
    Joe Cornelius
    • Trog
    John Adams
    • Courtroom Spectator
    • (uncredited)
    Richard Atherton
    • Courtroom Spectator
    • (uncredited)
    John Baker
    • Anaesthetist
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Freddie Francis
    • Writers
      • Aben Kandel
      • Peter Bryan
      • John Gilling
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    • Trivia
      "Trog" was a double feature with Christopher Lee's "Taste the Blood of Dracula." In the first week of release (opening Oct. 26, 1970), the two films were the #1 top-grossing films in the United States, making $2,900,583.
    • Goofs
      Under sodium pentothal, Trog "remembers" seeing dinosaurs...impossible, since they went extinct 30 million years before the first ape, let alone the first "ape-man", evolved.
    • Quotes

      Dr. Brockton: Malcolm, get me my hypo-gun - quickly!

    • Connections
      Featured in Late Movie 18: Trog (1979)

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    3/10
    Fish and Lishardsh
    It is said Bette Davis commented that if she had found herself starring in "Trog," she'd commit suicide. Alas, poor Joan Crawford, who obviously felt she couldn't be fussy if she wanted the work, descended to this cut-rate, Herman Cohen-produced monster movie. Ironically released in the States by Warner Brothers (on the bottom half of a double-bill with "The Torture Garden"), the studio for which Ms Crawford made several of her hits including "Mildred Pierce", the only scary thing about "Trog" is the sight of a once-glamorous, legendary leading lady schlepping around in a lab coat (she plays an anthropologist), obviously tipsy as she slurs inane lines like "Trog lives on a diet of fish and lishardsh." Let's face it: under the circumstances, you'd drink, too.

    Trog is cutesy for troglodyte: a primitive missing-link cave-dweller portrayed by a burly actor in an Alley Oop-like caveman get-up and an over-the-head, dime-store Halloween mask. Discovered by a hunky and shirtless, albeit unfortunate, team of spelunking college students, Trog is captured and put under the observation of Dr Brockton (Joan).

    The true villain of this piece is Michael Gough (also slumming it), a representative of the opposing townspeople who, in a public confrontation with Joan, causes her to explode in a moment of impassioned fury. Regrettably, she does not give Gough her trademark slap in the face.

    Trog eventually escapes to wreak some customary monster-movie havoc and Joan hunts him down with her "hypo-gun" across the bleak fields of the northern English countryside and down into his cavern, dressed in a smartly tailored tan jacket, slacks and boots ensemble.

    Hollywood Royalty? Joan tries to maintain her dignity and poise despite having to deliver lines like, "Put the child down, Trog!" and occasionally looking a little woozy. This sad swan song to a long, brilliant career, amid the preposterous mise en scene, gives "Trog" the feeling of a tragi-comedy. Like one of her memorable screen characters, the real Joan Crawford endeavors to be strong and, ultimately, to triumph against all odds.
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    • Release date
      • November 26, 1970 (West Germany)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Trog
    • Filming locations
      • Elizabeth House, Station Hill, Cookham Rise, Berkshire, England, UK(Village police station)
    • Production company
      • Herman Cohen Productions
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 33 minutes
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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