Starring: Sam Elliot!! and Ray Milland!!
Ray Milland is a rich, evil industrialist, Jason Crockett, polluting the world with his products. Sam Elliot,(minus a mustache but with the same cowboy voice), is a freelance photographer working for an enviromental magazine, Picket Smith, [if I ever change my name]. While Picket is canoeing around a private island, taking pictures of pollution and debris, his canoe is knocked over by the fun-loving kids of rich Mr. Crockett. They invite him to join the family for the afternoon, (I think I heard something about the 4th of July?). [yeah, they definatly mentioned the 4th of july]
There are three black characters in the film; two of them are servents and the third is a fashion model that one of Crockett's sons is dating as an act of rebellion. Why do I mention this? It's just one of those staples of seventies cinema. There's two forms of racial exploitaion going on within the film, and, hopefully the filmmakers intended it that way. I like to think that they realized that, but I'm not sure that they did.
Well, as to be expected, the frogs begin to take over the island. Death by death, we really don't care about the people, except for Pickett, that is. Does he die? Does he survive?
As far as seventies 'nature gone bad' movies go, this one is actually pretty good. It's certainly not good in the sense that 'The Godfather' is good, but more like "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" is good. It really makes me want to watch "Squirm".
Academy Award winner Ray Milland.
"The Lost Weekend"
"Dial M for Murder"
"X: The Man With the Xray Eyes"
and dozens more.
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