The Alligator People (1959) on Netflix
Approved19591h 14mHorrorSci-Fi
Paul Webster leaves his honeymoon train to make a phone call and does not return. His wife Joyce searches for months. A lead points to a plantation in the Louisiana swamps.
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Plot summary
Two psychiatrists give a nurse, Jane Marvin, the drug sodium pentothal, and under its influence she recounts a life she had forgotten, when she was Joyce Webster. Joyce had just married Paul Webster, and on their honeymoon train he stepped off to make a phone call; the train pulled away without him. She hires private detectives and searches for months, until a lead takes her to Bayou Landing, Louisiana, and to the Cypresses Plantation, where she says Paul once lived. Lavinia Hawthorne, the estate's stern mistress, calls her a liar and tries to throw her out, and the household keeps its silence about Paul. A local doctor, Mark Sinclair, comes to question her, and Joyce refuses to leave.
Cast
- Bill Bradleyas Patient 'Number Six' (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Alligator People (1959)
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- A computer game version was in development at 20th Century Fox in 1983, programmed by John Russel for the Atari 2600, but for unknown reasons it was never released. The prototype became a puzzle for collectors, as the first copy they found turned out to be a completely different game.
