Film Dope


Trog

1970

Freddie Francis
Director
Warner Brothers
Distributor

Missing link is unearthed and does the rampaging thing. Let's hear it for Michael Gough, who manages to keep a straight face throughout. Joan Crawford's last appearance. Dreadful in a I-must-have-this kind of way.

-The Sloth

Utterly awful film, manly because there is no character depth or motivation for anything that happens in the film. Crawford has noble motives because she is a scientist, the police are thick-headed because they are policeman, and Gough is a obnoxious jackass because he's in yet another Herman Cohen film. One has to give credit to Joe Cornelius as Trog; he manages to bring off some pathos to his character, even while saddled with a lousy makeup job that, as Bernard Kay states, "looks like something from a university rag week."

I don't know what is more embarassing: that the scientists show pictures of dinosaur skeletons to Trog and expect him to recognize them, or that the filmmakers actually expected Trog would recognize them. One doesn't learn prehistoric history from Flintstones reruns!

-Dave W.

Thanks to Gerald Lovell, Crsoby & Philly for identifying several unknowns!

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24th October 1970
Cinema

GP
93 mins
1.85:1


26th June 2007
DVD



91 mins


Joan Crawford
Dr. Brockton
Michael Gough
Sam Murdock
Bernard Kay
Inspector Greenham
Kim Braden
Ann Brockton
David Griffin
Malcolm Travers
John Hamill
Cliff
Thorley Walters
Magistrate
Jack May
Dr. Selbourne
Geoffrey Case
Bill
Robert Hutton
Dr. Richard Warren
Simon Lack
Lt. Colonel Vickers
(listed as Colonel in credits)
David Warbeck
Alan Davis
Chloe Franks
Little Girl
Maurice Good
First Reporter
Joe Cornelius
Trog
Jack Silk
Greenham's Driver
Cleo Sylvestre
Cleo, Nurse
Jack Carter
Police Inspector
John D. Collins
TV Crewman Watching Monitor
Harry Phipps
TV Crewman
Donald Campbell
Man Telling Off Murdock
Tim Barrett
John Dennis
Otto Friese
TV Crewman
Lola Morice
Spectator at Cave Site
Harry Fielder
Security Guard
Rona Newton-John
Reporter
Harold Coyne
Reporter
Roy Beck
Reporter
Bill Burns
Photographer
John Tatum
Reporter
Sandy Stein
Reporter
Unknown 20051-11
Reporter
Clive Rogers
Reporter
Unknown 20051-13
Reporter
Philip Webb
Reporter
Unknown 20051-15
Reporter
Steve Donahue
Security Guard
Herman Cohen
Publican
George Hilsdon
Publican
Unknown 20051-06
Security Guard
Reg Thomason
Murdock's Solicitor
John Adams
Courtroom Spectator
Richard Atherton
Courtroom Spectator
Mabel Etherington
Courtroom Spectator
George Spence
Courtroom Spectator
Hilda Green
Courtroom Spectator
Unknown Male 40
Courtroom Spectator
Alicia Armstrong
Courtroom Spectator
Unknown 20051-18
Courtroom Spectator
Unknown 20051-19
Courtroom Spectator
Unknown 20051-20
Courtroom Spectator
Unknown 20051-21
Courtroom Spectator
Unknown 20051-22
Courtroom Spectator
Bill Hibbert
Court Policeman
Terry Sartain
Court Policeman
Unknown 20051-09
Court Reporter
Golda Casimir
Professor Manoskiensky
Robert Crewdson
Dr. Pierre Duval
Paul Hansard
Dr. Kurtlimer
Unknown 20051-03
Anaesthetist
Unknown 20051-05
Policeman at Court
Unknown 20051-23
Security Guard
Unknown 20051-24
Murdock's Stunt Double
Royston Farrell
Policeman at Briefing
John Wilder
Policeman at Briefing
Unknown 20051-25
Policeman at Briefing
Jim Delaney
Policeman at Briefing
Unknown 20051-01
Grocer
Bartlett Mullins
Butcher
Unknown 20051-02
Driver
Shirley Cooklin
Little Girl's Mother
Pat Gorman
Army Lieutenant
Laurie Rose
Soldier
Lenny Piper
Soldier
Unknown 20051-29
Soldier
Unknown 20051-30
Soldier
Chris Gabriel
Soldier
Eve Aubrey
Onlooker at Cave
George Ballantine
Man Fleeing Trog
Joyce Everson
Onlooker at Cave
James Hamilton
Reporter
Walter Henry
Policeman
Ned Hood
Desk Policeman
Lindsay Hooper
Onlooker at Cave
Mary Maxfield
Frightened Lady
Phil Parkes
Man Removing Branch
Henry Roberts
Onlooker at Cave
Jack Ross
Soldier
Byron Sotiris
Reporter
Cy Town
TV Cameraman
Harry Van Engel
Onlooker at Cave

History

Monday, 15th February 1971 - Wednesday, 17th February 1971Perry Drive-In USA
Wednesday, 24th March 1971 - Saturday, 27th March 1971Capital Drive-In USA
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