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Alligator People
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by 20th Century Fox
Sales Rank: 43035
Price: $14.98
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When Jane's husband disembarks from a passenger train immediately after their wedding and disappears without a trace, troubling questions are raised. How could his face, mangled beyond recognition in a plane crash during the war, have healed without any scarring? And what unspeakable acts took place on the alligator-ridden bayou plantation he left as an address? Wonderfully haunted, <i>The Alligator People</i> explores the mystery with skillful pacing, generally decent dialogue, and only intermittently laughable special effects. Miscegenation, anxiety over radiation and atomic science, homoeroticism, distrust of doctors and medicine, fear of the American South--all the major cultural obsessions of the late '50s are either tacitly or explicitly represented here; perhaps that's why the far-fetched scientific premise that underlies the plot makes a weird resonance despite its utter implausibility. The ubiquitous Lon Chaney is on hand, and his performance as a drunken swamp rat with a penchant for violence is a hoot; but the real star of the show is Beverly Garland, whose inspired lead, alternately detached and histrionic, decidedly puts to rest the myth of the inelasticity of early sci-fi and horror performers. A winner. <i>--Miles Bethany</i>
Viewer Reviews
On her wedding night, a woman's husband abandons her. She goes out on a search for him and finds herself in the bayou. Once there she finds hubby, but he's not the man he used to be.....HE'S ONE OF THE ALLIGATOR PEOPLE!! Seems a scientist has found a new miracle cure for folks who have suffered severe physical trauma. It takes that old fact of a lizard growing back it's tail after losing it, and tries to apply it humans. By injecting folks with Hydrocortisone from alligators, they can reconstruct any damaged by tissue, including missing limbs. Hubby was in a bad plane crash a year earlier and underwent the treatment. The catch is that a year after treatment, patients literally start turning into alligators. This explains why he abruptly ditched his wife. He waits around the lab for his chance to try the scientist's new solution that involves gamma rays. Also creeping around is Lon Chaney as an alligator hating Cajun with a hook for a hand. He's a bit like a demented version of Carl Weathers from Happy Gilmore, only he's white, doesn't play golf, is a Cajun and didn't star in Action Jackson. The whole thing makes me think of the Cajun alligator villain, Leatherhead, from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon. I love that guy!
It all adds up to another fun "science gone awry" horror flick of the 50s. Dig in if it's your kinda thang.
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