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LSU mentioned in 1959 classic "The Alligator People"

Posted on 3/27/17 at 4:05 am
Posted by PowerTool
The dark side of the road
Member since Dec 2009
21152 posts
Posted on 3/27/17 at 4:05 am
Can't sleep and found this movie on FXM.



Much of the action takes place in "Bayou Landing" in LaFource Parish. LSU is mentioned, not sure if any of the campus is featured.

quote:

A confused horror yarn set in the Deep South, Alligator People stars Richard Crane as a husband who becomes accidently separated from his new wife (Beverly Garland) during a train ride. She tracks him down to the swamplands surrounding his family mansion. Her reunion with her husband is tarnished by the fact that he's been partially transformed into an alligator! This is the handiwork of doctor George MacReady, who's been conducting curious experiments with gators and humans. Garland must figure out a way to save her mutated husband from both the scientist and a drunken alligator hunter (Lon Chaney Jr.). The story is told in flashback, as psychiatrists try to figure out what has driven Garland insane. The Alligator People was the last film directed by Roy Del Ruth, light years away from his glory days at Warner Bros.

-AllMovie.com



Slightly worth it just to see an aging Lon Chaney playing a drunk swamprat intentionally running over alligators in his pickup truck.



This post was edited on 3/27/17 at 4:07 am
Posted by mauser
Orange Beach
Member since Nov 2008
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Posted on 3/27/17 at 6:23 am to
I'll kill you alligator man

Posted by kywildcatfanone
Wildcat Country!
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Posted on 3/27/17 at 7:54 am to
I've seen that movie. Very odd.
Posted by JumpingTheShark
America
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Posted on 3/27/17 at 7:59 am to
Lon Chaney and Lon Chaney Jr are both awesome.
Posted by oreeg
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2006
5280 posts
Posted on 3/27/17 at 8:12 am to
quote:

LaFource


:facepalm:
Posted by Tiger Ree
Houston
Member since Jun 2004
24545 posts
Posted on 3/27/17 at 8:57 am to
I don't think I would watch that movie even if I was in it.
Posted by warlock1974
Prairieville
Member since Jan 2015
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Posted on 3/27/17 at 9:37 am to
Growing up in the 50's which I consider the prime time for BAD but entertaining monster movies, I remember this one well.

Posted by S
RIP Wayde
Member since Jan 2007
155588 posts
Posted on 7/5/18 at 10:02 pm to
Bump

Just watched this



The scene at the end had me dying.
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
141896 posts
Posted on 7/5/18 at 10:17 pm to
There's a Beverly Hillbillies episode where Jethro claims LSU as one of his alma maters (along w/UCLA, USC, SMU, and other acronym schools)

but nothing can top My Forbidden Past, in which Robert Mitchum plays a Tulane professor?!?

Posted by PowerTool
The dark side of the road
Member since Dec 2009
21152 posts
Posted on 7/5/18 at 10:36 pm to
It was hilarious. You know someone read that script, said "why," and then frick it.
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