The Alligator People
by Roy Del Ruth
List Price:
Our Price: $3.93
You Save: $6.05 (61%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $0.25 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD Cover Information
Actor: Beverly Garland, Bruce Bennett, Frieda Inescort, George Macready, Lon Chaney Jr.Director: Roy Del Ruth
Brand: Fox
Cinematographer: Karl Struss
Producer: Jack Leewood
Writer: Charles O'Neal
Writer: Orville H. Hampton
Writer: Robert M. Fresco
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 74 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-07
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of The Alligator People
Movie Review: One of the best stupid monster movies ever.
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this freakin' movie. It is the most ridiculous story in the world, but what fun to watch. Partly because I am a horror movie junkie and I tend to be a sucker for any kind of monster. So here's a movie with an Alligator man. How cool is that. The fact that this impossibly stupid idea is treated with the utmost seriousness, as if it were just as epic a horror concept as Dracula or Frankenstein, is what makes the movie so cool.
I once read an interview with (lead actress) Beverly Garland where she said that she and the lead actor could barely get through their performances because they kept busting up laughing at the sheer ridiculousness of their dialogue. They only played it off by trying to make it look like they were biting back tears. Knowing that makes watching the movie even more fun 'cause you can clearly see it. Every time Ms. Garland's lips start trembling, or she covers her mouth with her hand, or turns away from the camera while attempting to carry on a serious discussion about the man she loves turning into an alligator, you know she's just barely succeeded at containing another laughing fit.
The fact that everybody went ahead and made the movie anyway shows what great sports they all were, and that they were having a genuinely fun time making this crazy movie.
Add to that a truly lunatic performance by Lon Chaney, the goofy looking Alligator man itself, a bunch of zombie-like surgical patients who look like they are wearing bathroom urinals on their heads, and you have a genuine cheese-fest of gonzo horror hilarity.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot to mention, there is a great scene in the middle where Beverly Garland (who looks extremely sexy) goes running outside, into the swamps, trying to find her monstrous husband. A heavy rainstorm starts. There are several wild animals to snap at her heels and many sharp branches to snag her clothing. In classic pulp story fashion, the pretty girl ends up soaking wet and barefoot, her clothes torn to shreds. Evil old Lon Chaney finds the poor, nubile, drenched thing, and carries her off and attempts to have his way with her. Then of course she is rescued by the scary, half-mutated Alligator Man. Whatta great flick!!!!
Summary of The Alligator People
ALLIGATOR PEOPLE - DVD MovieSimilar DVD Movies
The Crawling Eye (Widescreen European Edition)Image Entertainment; Release date: 2001-12-04; DVD
Best price: $2.11
Price in other shops:
Beginning of the EndHenstooth Video; Release date: 2010-04-22; DVD
Best price: $13.39
Price in other shops:
Icons of Horror Collection: Sam Katzman (The Giant Claw / Creature with the Atom Brain / Zombies of Mora Tau / The Werewolf)Sony; Release date: 2007-10-16; DVD
Best price: $17.47
Price in other shops:
It Came from Outer SpaceUniversal Studios; Release date: 2002-05-21; DVD
Best price: $6.54
Price in other shops:
Day the World Ended/ She CreatureLIONS GATE HOME ENT.; Release date: 2006-04-18; DVD
Best price: $1.79
Price in other shops:
The Return of the VampireSony Pictures Home ENT; Release date: 2002-08-13; DVD
Best price: $3.85
Price in other shops:
Curse of the Demon / Night of the DemonANDREWS,DANA; Release date: 2002-08-13; DVD
Best price: $8.71
Price in other shops:
Roger Corman's Cult Classics Triple Feature (Attack of the Crab Monsters / War of the Satellites / Not of This Earth)VIS; Release date: 2011-01-18; DVD
Best price: $12.99
Price in other shops:
Invisible Invaders / Journey to the Seventh PlanetSony; Release date: 2003-04-15; DVD
Best price: $3.45
Price in other shops:
The Thing from Another WorldNEW Line Home Video; Release date: 2003-08-05; DVD
Best price: $6.35
Price in other shops: