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Release Date: 1970 Cast: John Hamill, Jack May, Joan Crawford, Bernard Kay, Joe Cornelius, Michael Gough, Thorley Walters, David Griffin, Kim Braden
Categories: Movies, Cult, Monster movie, Horror, Creature Film Trog is a 1970 science fiction horror film starring Joan Crawford in a story about the discovery of a caveman. The screenplay was written by Peter Bryan, John Gilling, and Aben Kandel, and the film directed by Freddie Francis. Trog marks Crawford's last big-screen appearance.
Set in contemporary England, the film follows Doctor Brockton (Joan Crawford) who learns that in the caves of the countryside, a troglodyte is alive and might be able to be helped and even domesticated. She gets the creature to the surface and attempts breed with Trog, but runs into trouble as a few people, especially... MORE
Trog is a 1970 science fiction horror film starring Joan Crawford in a story about the discovery of a caveman. The screenplay was written by Peter Bryan, John Gilling, and Aben Kandel, and the film directed by Freddie Francis. Trog marks Crawford's last big-screen appearance.
Set in contemporary England, the film follows Doctor Brockton (Joan Crawford) who learns that in the caves of the countryside, a troglodyte is alive and might be able to be helped and even domesticated. She gets the creature to the surface and attempts breed with Trog, but runs into trouble as a few people, especially a local businessman afraid of negative commercial consequences, Sam Murdock (Michael Gough), oppose this. Murdock frees the creature, leading to a rampage.
Trog was the second of two films that Crawford starred in for her friend, producer Herman Cohen; the first was Berserk! (1968). It also paired her with Michael Gough, who starred with Crawford in Berserk!
The dinosaur sequence here was stock footage from the Warner Bros. movie The Animal World (1956).
The film also features a small role by future cult actor David Warbeck.
At the time of Trog's release, The New York Times panned the film but LESS
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