Bob PeryeaFrogs! (1972)
January 3rd 2009 17:15
Frogs! (1972) 4.0/10
Dir: George McCowan
What do you get when you take a group of good actors and a poorly fleshed out message. Frogs!
That’s right, in this 1972 classic B-movie, we see the legendary Ray Milland, Joan Van Ark and a very young Sam Elliott work their way through a ridiculous plot. Ray Milland (as Jason Crockett) plays a grouchy, old cripple who’s family is gathered on his private island for his birthday. Sam Elliott is Pickett Smith, a photographer documenting the devastation caused by pollution and pesticides in the area. Smith is knocked into the drink by an intoxicated boater who just happens to be Crockett’s relative and guest. Pickett Smith finds himself surrounded by the very people who created the pollution he is studying... all of this just at the moment that there is to be an amphibian uprising!
Apparently, the frogs direct the plants and reptiles of the island to systematically kill the humans. One guy dies when he is strangled to death by Spanish Moss and is cocooned tarantulas. Another is attacked by snakes. Another dies in the greenhouse when a Gila Monster knocks all of the herbicides, pesticides and poisons on the floor and he is asphyxiated (meanwhile, the poisons don’t affect the reptiles in the room!)
There is a ton of stock footage of amphibians, reptiles, arachnids and plants that are spliced without a lot of regard the habitat of the creatures (Gila Monsters don’t normally lived in swamps) or even the time of day of the shots.
Frogs! is a film best not to leap for unless you are a glutton for unfulfilled promise and strange death scenes. The guy with the moss murder does this particularly funny grunting work.
I’m giving it a 4.0 out of 10 only because Elliott and Milland pull off the characters reasonably well. Also I like the message about pollution. Besides there’s a drinking for each gratuitous death by lizard scene.
This movie cost me a dollar. It’s put out by MGM Entertainment. I don’t know where I got it.
Dir: George McCowan
What do you get when you take a group of good actors and a poorly fleshed out message. Frogs!
That’s right, in this 1972 classic B-movie, we see the legendary Ray Milland, Joan Van Ark and a very young Sam Elliott work their way through a ridiculous plot. Ray Milland (as Jason Crockett) plays a grouchy, old cripple who’s family is gathered on his private island for his birthday. Sam Elliott is Pickett Smith, a photographer documenting the devastation caused by pollution and pesticides in the area. Smith is knocked into the drink by an intoxicated boater who just happens to be Crockett’s relative and guest. Pickett Smith finds himself surrounded by the very people who created the pollution he is studying... all of this just at the moment that there is to be an amphibian uprising!
Apparently, the frogs direct the plants and reptiles of the island to systematically kill the humans. One guy dies when he is strangled to death by Spanish Moss and is cocooned tarantulas. Another is attacked by snakes. Another dies in the greenhouse when a Gila Monster knocks all of the herbicides, pesticides and poisons on the floor and he is asphyxiated (meanwhile, the poisons don’t affect the reptiles in the room!)
There is a ton of stock footage of amphibians, reptiles, arachnids and plants that are spliced without a lot of regard the habitat of the creatures (Gila Monsters don’t normally lived in swamps) or even the time of day of the shots.
Frogs! is a film best not to leap for unless you are a glutton for unfulfilled promise and strange death scenes. The guy with the moss murder does this particularly funny grunting work.
I’m giving it a 4.0 out of 10 only because Elliott and Milland pull off the characters reasonably well. Also I like the message about pollution. Besides there’s a drinking for each gratuitous death by lizard scene.
This movie cost me a dollar. It’s put out by MGM Entertainment. I don’t know where I got it.
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If you're interested check out When Nature Kills: The 25 Deadliest Movie Animals - Frogs came in 24th.
Good stuff Bob.
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