The Alligator People
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The Alligator People
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Most of the film is actually a flashback, something I was not aware of. The main character (Beverly Garland) thinks back on events due to some psychological prompting with the latest fifties psychiatric methods (by Bruce Bennett). We find out she was a newlywed who 'lost' her husband (Paul Webster) while on her honeymoon train trip. It's mentioned that her hubby was in some awful, crippling accident but obviously looks fully recovered. He receives a letter and promptly abandons her. The story might have ended there, at the 10-minute mark, but the wife determines to track her man down. (if he's still a 'man' - heh-heh-heh )I was also startled to see actor George MacReady as the well-meaning doctor who causes all the mutations in his patients; I'd last seen him not too long ago in Seven Days in May (1964), playing a presidential advisor. BoG's Score: 5.5 out of 10
Gator Trivia: The Wikipedia article on this film points out the big similarity between the mutations here and the origin of the Lizard, a big-time opponent of Spider-Man in the sixties (first appeared in the Marvel Comic Amazing Spider-Man #6). The Lizard was a well-meaning scientist who had lost an arm in the war; he found a way to grow it back, but then mutated. See also the thread on The Amazing Colossal Man and my wild theories on his similarity to the origin of The Hulk and Giant-Man, other Marvel super-heroes. I get a picture in my head of Stan Lee in 1961 thinking back on all those fifties monster films he's watched a few years earlier and coming up with the heroes of the Marvel Universe.
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