Frogs (1972)

Frogs (1972)
Director: George McCowan
Tagline: « If YOU Are Squeamish Stay Home!!! »
Actors:
Jason Crockett
Pickett Smith
Karen Crockett
Clint Crockett
Bella Garrington
Rating:  vote average (8’725 votes)
Quotes: « Jason Crockett: Karen… and everyone else… this conversation has ended! » « Pickett Smith: No, it hasn't, Mr. Crockett. Look, with Grover and Kenneth dead, I don't know what's going on around here… or if it is happening anywhere else… but we are a bunch of damn fools not to face the fact that we are in a hell of a lot of trouble! And we're gonna have to get together to fight it! » « Bella Garrington: Keep talking Mr. Pickett, 'cause you are the only man around here who's saying anything! » « Pickett Smith: First of all, we're gonna have to try to find Iris, Stuart and Michael. But to be very honest with you… I don't think we will. Not alive anyway. But whether we find them or not, we've got to get off this damn island! All of us, now! We'll take the power boat. If we have to, we'll tow the canoe. » « Jason Crockett: And leave this house empty and deserted… on the Fourth of July? » « Pickett Smith: I don't really think there's gonna be anybody around here to worry about today. Maybe if you didn't notice, but there hasn't been one boat out on that lake all day! » « Clint Crockett: Do you think this is happening everywhere, Mr. Smith? » « Pickett Smith: Well if it is, I think we'd stand a better chance if we all get out of here together. » « Jason Crockett: Well, I forbid it! I control these people, not you! » « Bella Garrington: Nobody controls me, Mr. Crockett! Now I'm asking for your permission to get off this island, by myself or with anyone else, I just want to go! » « Clint Crockett: Well it seems like everyone in our family is hung-up on frogs. » « Pickett Smith: You see that? As soon as I went after them, they scattered. » « Jason Crockett: And very intelligently too. The frogs are thinking now, the snails are planning strategy, they have brains as good as ours — is that your point? »
Trailer: Frogs
Runtime:91 minutes
Plots: A group of helpless victims celebrate a birthday on an island estate crawling with killer amphibians, birds, insects, and reptiles. 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 freelance 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. Freelance photographer Pickett Smith is taking pictures of the pollution in a swamp in Florida for a magazine of ecology in his canoe. Out of the blue, he is hit by a motorboat piloted by Clint Crockett and his sister Karen Crockett and capsizes. Clint and Karen invite Pickett for the party in the private island of their grumpy grandfather Jason Crockett, an old fashioned disabled patriarch that enjoys celebrating his birthday on the 4th of July with his family. Pickett realizes that the island is infested of frogs and reptiles, and Jason has ordered his caretaker to poison his real estate to get rid off the amphibians and creepy crawlies. But soon Pickett finds that they are living the payback of nature against humanity.

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