Saturday, June 10, 2017

Sci Fi Saturday – The Alligator People

When Joyce’s husband, of only a few hours, receives a telegram aboard their honeymoon train he panics and immediately leaves the train to make a phone call during a routine stops. But when the train pulls out, Paul is missing, having vanished without a word. Throughout the following months, Joyce employs private detectives and conducts her own search for her husband, to no avail, until one day she discovers the address of the Cypresses Plantation that Paul entered on his college enrollment forms. With her only good lead in had she sets off to find him but what she finds is a horror so great she believes it to be only a distant dream. Why did Paul not return to the train that night and what has sent Joyce into complete mental shock? Find out in, The Alligator People!



Cast  (in credits order) (verified as complete)
Beverly Garland – Joyce Webster, aka Jane Marvin
Bruce Bennett – Dr. Eric Lorimer
Lon Chaney Jr. – Manon (as Lon Chaney)
George Macready – Dr. Mark Sinclair
Frieda Inescort – Mrs. Lavinia Hawthorne, Henry's Wife
Richard Crane – Paul Webster
Douglas Kennedy – Dr. Wayne MacGregor


The Alligator People (1959)