The Alligator People (1959)

Directed by

Roy Del Ruth

Genre

horror film, science fiction film, monster film, science fiction horror film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 14m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 65 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman searches for her missing husband and discovers a remote estate where a scientist is experimenting with alligator DNA. She finds that the scientist has transformed her husband into a half-man half-alligator creature.

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What happens

The Alligator People is a 1959 American CinemaScope science-fiction horror film directed by Roy Del Ruth. It stars Beverly Garland, Bruce Bennett, and Lon Chaney Jr. This film was the penultimate feature directed by Del Ruth, and quite different from those of his days at Warner Bros. The film was theatrically distributed by 20th Century Fox on July 22, 1959 on a double bill with Return of the Fly. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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