The Alligator People

1959 PG-13 1h 14m

5.6 / 10 65

RATING

5.6/10

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Under therapeutic hypnosis, a seemingly well-adjusted young woman tells a fantastic story, verified by lie detector, of her forgotten marriage to a man who disappeared on the day of their honeymoon, and of her search for him which takes her to a lonely mansion in a remote section of swampland tenanted by snakes, alligators, a drunken one-armed lout, a mysterious doctor, and a cold-hearted elderly woman who lives alone in a brooding manse.

Director Roy Del Ruth

Writers

Orville H. Hampton Orville H. Hampton Charles O'Neal

Stars

Beverly Garland Bruce Bennett Lon Chaney Jr.

Beverly Garland

Joyce Webster, aka Jane Marvin

Mrs. Lavinia Hawthorne

Patient 'Number Six' (uncredited)

1st Male Nurse (uncredited)

Third Male Nurse (uncredited)

Boyd Stockman

Alligator-headed Paul

2nd Male Nurse (uncredited)

Science Fiction Horror Mystery

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Wuchak 20 Feb 2022

6/10

_**Deep in the Louisiana bog is a cryptic estate with reptilian secrets**_ A woman (Beverly Garland) seeks her missing husband (Richard Crane) deep in the bayous of Cajun Country. She ends up at a mysterious plantation with an unfriendly host, a questionable doctor (Bruce Bennett) and a crazy man with a hook-hand living in the swamp (Lon Chaney Jr.). "The Alligator People" (1959) is a B&...

stugood 21 Mar 2019

5/10

What seems to begin in the southern gothic vein, complete with voiceover narrative by a newlywed (likable Beverly Garland) concerning the sudden and mysterious disappearance of her husband, soon picks up the pace as a sci-fi monster picture, akin to previous year's <i> The Fly. </i> Unfortunately, the last act fully descends into tomfoolery and questionable monster makeup - namely a rubbery alliga...