Big Daddy

Big Daddy

1969 · 68 min · ★ 8.0 · Drama, Adventure, Thriller, Horror

A visitor to the Everglades swamps in Florida encounters and falls in love with an uneducated girl. But he finds competition for her affections from the unlikely and mysterious A. Beauregard Lincoln. He also discovers danger from nature in the form of vicious alligators and from the mystical in the form of a voodoo witch doctor.

Directed by Carl K. Hittleman · Written by Carl K. Hittleman

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