Frogs( 1972)

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Jason Crockett is an aging, grumpy, physically disabled millionaire who invites his family to his island estate for his birthday celebration. Pickett Smith is a free-lance photographer who is doing a pollution layout for an ecology magazine. Jason Crockett hates nature, poisoning anything that crawls on his property. On the night of his birthday the frogs and other members of nature begin to pay Crockett back.

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Ray Milland
Jason Crockett
Sam Elliott
Pickett Smith
Joan Van Ark
Karen Crockett
Adam Roarke
Clint Crockett
Judy Pace
Bella Garrington
Lynn Borden
Jenny Crockett
Mae Mercer
Maybelle
David Gilliam
Michael Martindale
Nicholas Cortland
Kenneth Martindale
George Skaff
Stuart Martindale
Lance Taylor Sr.
Charles
Hollis Irving
Iris Martindale
Dale Willingham
Tina Crockett
Hal Hodges
Jay Crockett
Carolyn Fitzsimmons
Lady in Car
Robert Sanders
Young Boy in Car

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A review by Wuchak

Written by Wuchak on Thu Jul 12 2018

Lazy pre-"Jaws" nature-nuns-amok flick RELEASED IN 1972 and directed by George McCowan, "Frogs" chronicles events when myriad swamp creatures (frogs, snakes, alligators, lizards, scorpions, tarantulas, crabs, etc.) vengefully attack a crotchety old man's Southern mansion in the swamp. Apparently, they’re hopping mad about the toxic chemicals used to exterminate them, not to mention pollutants in general. The film stars Ray Milland as the old grump, a mustache-less Sam Elliott and a young Joan Van Ark. "Frogs" predates "Jaws" (1975) by a few years. The creators were obviously going for a...