Alligator (1980)

Movie: Alligator (1980)


  • Director: Lewis Teague

  • Release Date: 2 July 1980 (USA)

  • Writers: John Sayles (screenplay) John Sayles (story) ...  

  • Run Time: 91 min | Argentina:92 min

  • Country: USA

  • Genre: Horror , Sci-Fi , Comedy  



Tagline: Beneath Those Manholes, A Man-Eater Is Waiting ...  

Trivia: The final cinema film of Dean Jagger.
 

Goofs: Miscellaneous: Sue Lyon is incorrectly credited as "ABC Newswoman". In fact, her character appears to be working for NBC. The microphone she uses during an interview is clearly marked with the NBC 'N' and peacock logos.
 

"Ramon the alligator is flushed down the toilet as a baby and grows into a gargantuan monster by eating the corpses of laboratory animals who have undergone dubious hormone experiments, thus providing all the ecological and social subtext that one could possibly wish for, even if one doesn't normally go for films about giant alligators eating people left, right, and center--which is the inevitable and tragic result of Ramon's decision that the outside world looks rather more interesting than the sewers.... Written by Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>"

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