By Edward Staiger
FROGS (1972)
Directed by George McCowan
Starring Ray Milland, Sam Elliott, Joan Van Ark
THE NIGHT OF THE LEPUS (1972)
Directed by William F. Claxton
Starring Janet Leigh, Stuart Whitman, Rory Calhoun, DeForest Kelley
By 1972 the pre-Jaws, pre-Spielberg “creature features” community had exhausted outer space and all the animals then guest-starring on Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom as source material to threaten humankind. What could they come up with next? Another 50-foot Woman? As if combing the scalp of the cosmos, they scraped together what became Frogs and The Night of the Lepus - that is, bottom-of-the-barrel reptiles, mutant bunny rabbits and the usual roster of Hollywood has-beens.
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