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Frogs (1972)

PG 03/10/1972 (US) Horror 1h 30m

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Jason Crockett is an aging, grumpy, physically disabled millionaire who invites his family to his island estate for his birthday celebration. Pickett Smith is a free-lance photographer who is doing a pollution layout for an ecology magazine. Jason Crockett hates nature, poisoning anything that crawls on his property. On the night of his birthday the frogs and other members of nature begin to pay Crockett back.

Robert Hutchison

Screenplay, Story
George McCowan

Director
Robert Blees

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Ray Milland

Jason Crockett
Sam Elliott

Pickett Smith
Joan Van Ark

Karen Crockett
Adam Roarke

Clint Crockett
Judy Pace

Bella Garrington
Lynn Borden

Jenny Crockett
Mae Mercer

Maybelle
David Gilliam

Michael Martindale
Nicholas Cortland

Kenneth Martindale
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A review by Wuchak

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Written by Wuchak on July 12, 2018

Lazy pre-"Jaws" nature-nuns-amok flick

RELEASED IN 1972 and directed by George McCowan, "Frogs" chronicles events when myriad swamp creatures (frogs, snakes, alligators, lizards, scorpions, tarantulas, crabs, etc.) vengefully attack a crotchety old man's Southern mansion in the swamp. Apparently, they’re hopping mad about the toxic chemicals used to exterminate them, not to mention pollutants in general. The film stars Ray Milland as the old grump, a mustache-less Sam Elliott and a young Joan Van Ark.

"Frogs" predates "Jaws" (1975) by a few years. The creators were obviously going for a... read the rest.

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