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Phantom
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 Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2020 8:55 pm Post subject: Alligator People |
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I was able to capture this from Youtube.
Was really surprised to find a pristine, wide screen version, which I got at 720psi.
For a low budget throwaway, the photography is as good, if not better, than many of the Universal product of the 1940's.
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Bud Brewster
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| Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2022 3:49 pm Post subject: Re: The Alligator People (1959) |
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| Phantom wrote: | Chaney sports a hook for a hand that was taken off by a 'gator and mostly lumbers around the set shooting every reptile in sight. That is, when he is not trying to rape Garland, who spends a good part of the movie screaming like a banshee in a blender at nearly every turn of events.
It's a major disappointment, especially after so much of the movie has successfully created the proper atmosphere of dread. The ridiculous costume makes you long for some of the great, iconic monsters of the fifties (Creature From The Black Lagoon, Metaluna monster). With a little care and bit more money and imagination, The Alligator People could have gone out with a cheer instead of derisive laughter. |
Magnificent analysis of this enjoyable-but-flawed movie, sir!
That comment about how Miss Garland "spends a good part of the movie screaming like a banshee in a blender at nearly every turn of events" is pure literary genius! (Dammit, I wish I'd written that . . .  )
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