The Alligator People (1959)

Director
Roy Del Ruth

Main cast
Beverly Garland; Bruce Bennett; Lon Chaney Jr.; George Macready; Frieda Inescort

Genres
Horror, Sci-Fi

Description
A newly wed couple are sitting on a train when the husband receives an urgent telegram. When he gets off at a station to make a phone call the train pulls away without him. After years of searching his wife finally tracks him down on his family's southern estate, where she discovers that a failed medical treatment has had a horrible effect upon him.


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