When Paul Webster is on the operating table, shirtless, only his head and hands are partly alligator, and not the other areas of his visible skin (no doubt due to budgetary reasons).
Suppose I started telling you a story about a newlywed couple who were riding on a train to their honeymoon destination, very happy and very much in love, when, inexplicably and without any explanation, the husband got off at a mail stop and abandons his wife. Wouldn't you be intrigued?
Roy Del Ruth directed this Gothic horror yarn that stars Beverly Garland as Joyce Webster, who is being hypnotized by two doctors, who then tells her story about how, years ago, she was on her honeymoon with her husband Paul(played by Richard Crane). They are traveling by train, and after he receives an urgent telegram, abruptly leaves her for parts unknown.
It's been years since I've seen this one and had a chance recently to re-watch it. I have to say it's better than I remembered it to be.
Under hypnosis, a nurse (Beverly Garland) recounts the story of her search for her husband who disappeared on their honeymoon. The search leads her to Louisiana, where the locals insist they don't know her husband.
Poor Jane Webster (Beverly Garland) has lost something. Well, actually she's lost someone...
The movie dragged on a bit before finally getting to it's point, but I really liked how it followed the mystery of trying to find out what happened to the main characters husband. I was greatly impressed with the fact that they used real alligators in the movie.
The lovely and endearing 1950s B movie queen Beverly Garland ("It Conquered the World") stars here as "Jane Marvin", who reveals her suppressed past to psychiatrists Bruce Bennett ("Mystery Street") and Douglas Kennedy ("The Land Unknown"). She was once Joyce Webster, married to a war hero named Paul (Richard Crane, 'Rocky Jones, Space Ranger') who disappears during their wedding night.
The Alligator People starts at Webley Sanitarium where neuropathologist Dr. Wayne McGregor (Douglas Kennedy) has called in his old friend Dr.
Having watched this as a kid, I’d been toying with the idea of purchasing the cheap (and bare-bones) Fox DVD ever since its release a few years back; I’d been trying to get it from other sources, too, and I finally managed it recently. Unfortunately, while the video quality was pleasing enough (being Widescreen and all), the sound proved less satisfactory – due to synch problems and occasional audio dropouts.
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