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   <div class="large-6 columns">'''[[/Review|Alligator]]''' ([[:Category:1980|1980]], [[:Category:USA|USA]]) is a [[:Category:Eco-Terror|Eco-Terror film]] directed by Lewis Teague.  
   <div class="large-6 columns">'''[[/Review|Alligator]]''' ([[:Category:1980|1980]], [[:Category:USA|USA]]) is a [[:Category:Eco-Terror|Eco-Terror film]] directed by Lewis Teague.  
*'''Contents''': [[/Trailer|Watch Trailer]] | [[/Review|Film Review]] | [[/DVD|Available DVDs]] | [[Alligator (1980)|Poster Art]] | [[/Press Kit|Press Kit]] | [[/Fun Facts|Fun Facts]] | [[/BluRay|BluRay releases]]
*'''Contents''': [[/Trailer|Watch Trailer]] | [[/Review|Film Review]] | [[/DVD|Available DVDs]] | [[Alligator (1980)|Poster Art]] | [[/Press Kit|Press Kit]] | [[/Fun Facts|Fun Facts]] | [[/BluRay|BluRay releases]]
* Links: [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080354/ IMDB]
*'''Links''': [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080354/ IMDB]
*'''Included in''': [[Nature Strikes Back! 10 Eco-Terror Classics]]
*'''Included in''': [[Nature Strikes Back! 10 Eco-Terror Classics]]
*'''Featured in''': [[42nd Street Forever: Volume 3 - Exploitation Explosion|42nd Street Forever: Volume 3]] | [[Trailer Trauma 3: 80s Horrorthon (BluRay)]] | [[American Grindhouse]] | [[Terror in The Aisles]]
*'''Featured in''': [[42nd Street Forever: Volume 3 - Exploitation Explosion|42nd Street Forever: Volume 3]] | [[Trailer Trauma 3: 80s Horrorthon (BluRay)]] | [[American Grindhouse]] | [[Terror in The Aisles]]
[[Image:Alligatorposter.jpg|Alligator]]
*'''Featured on''': [[TCM Underground]]
[[Image:Alligatorposter.jpg]]
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===Main Details===
===Main Details===
* Released in 1980 | Color
* Released on November 14, 1980  
* Color
* Running Time: 89 min | Argentina:92 min
* Running Time: 89 min | Argentina:92 min
* Production Co: Alligator Inc.
* Production Co: Alligator Inc.
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* Directed by Lewis Teague
* Directed by Lewis Teague
* Written by [[:Category: John Sayles|John Sayles]], Frank Ray Perilli
* Written by [[:Category: John Sayles|John Sayles]], Frank Ray Perilli
* Starring Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael V. Gazzo, Dean Jagger, Henry Silva
* Starring Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael V. Gazzo
* Produced by Robert S. Bremson, Brandon Chase, Tom Jacobson, Mark L. Rosen
* Produced by Robert S. Bremson, Brandon Chase, Tom Jacobson, Mark L. Rosen
* Original Music by Craig Hundley
* Original Music by Craig Hundley
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===Taglines===
===Taglines===
* Beneath Those Manholes, A Man-Eater Is Waiting ... | He's Up From the Sewers And Nobody's Safe... | It lives 50 feet beneath the city. It's 36 feet long. It weighs 2,000 pounds...And it's about to break out! | A FRIGHTENING movie with a sense of FUN! | It's 36 feet long, weighs 2000 pounds, lives 50 feet below the city. Nobody knows it's down there except the people it eats.
* Beneath Those Manholes, A Man-Eater Is Waiting ...  
 
* He's Up From the Sewers And Nobody's Safe...  
* It lives 50 feet beneath the city. It's 36 feet long. It weighs 2,000 pounds...And it's about to break out!  
* A FRIGHTENING movie with a sense of FUN!  
* It's 36 feet long, weighs 2000 pounds, lives 50 feet below the city. Nobody knows it's down there except the people it eats.
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[[Category:1980]][[Category: Films]][[Category: Science Fiction]][[Category:Eco-Terror]][[Category:Group 1 International]][[Category:Robert Forster]][[Category:Lewis Teague]][[Category:Henry Silva|Boss, Il]][[Category:Henry Silva]][[Category:USA]] [[Category: John Sayles]]

Latest revision as of 13:16, 30 December 2022

Main Details

  • Released on November 14, 1980
  • Color
  • Running Time: 89 min | Argentina:92 min
  • Production Co: Alligator Inc.
  • Distributed by Group 1 International Distribution Organization Ltd. | British Lion-Columbia (BLC) Distributors (theatrical)
  • Directed by Lewis Teague
  • Written by John Sayles, Frank Ray Perilli
  • Starring Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael V. Gazzo
  • Produced by Robert S. Bremson, Brandon Chase, Tom Jacobson, Mark L. Rosen
  • Original Music by Craig Hundley
  • Cinematography by Joseph Mangine
  • Film Editing by Larry Bock, Ron Medico

Plot Summary

  • A baby alligator is flushed down a Chicago toilet and survives by eating discarded laboratory rats injected with growth hormones. The small reptile grows gigantic, escapes the city sewers, and goes on a rampage.

Taglines

  • Beneath Those Manholes, A Man-Eater Is Waiting ...
  • He's Up From the Sewers And Nobody's Safe...
  • It lives 50 feet beneath the city. It's 36 feet long. It weighs 2,000 pounds...And it's about to break out!
  • A FRIGHTENING movie with a sense of FUN!
  • It's 36 feet long, weighs 2000 pounds, lives 50 feet below the city. Nobody knows it's down there except the people it eats.
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