The Alligator People

The Alligator People

Nerve-shattering terror!

NR 1959 · 74 min · ★ 5.6 · Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery

Under therapeutic hypnosis, a seemingly well-adjusted young woman tells a fantastic story, verified by lie detector, of her forgotten marriage to a man who disappeared on the day of their honeymoon, and of her search for him which takes her to a lonely mansion in a remote section of swampland tenanted by snakes, alligators, a drunken one-armed lout, a mysterious doctor, and a cold-hearted elderly woman who lives alone in a brooding manse.

Directed by Roy Del Ruth · Written by Orville H. Hampton

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Beverly Garland Joyce Webster, aka Jane Marvin
Bruce Bennett Dr. Eric Lorimer
Lon Chaney Jr. Manon
George Macready Dr. Mark Sinclair
Frieda Inescort Mrs. Lavinia Hawthorne
Richard Crane Paul Webster
Douglas Kennedy Dr. Wayne McGregor
Bill Bradley Patient 'Number Six' (uncredited)
Hal K. Dawson Conductor
Dudley Dickerson Porter
John Frederick 1st Male Nurse (uncredited)
Ruby Goodwin Louann

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