L'Incroyable Alligator

Titre original : Alligator

1980
13
1h 31min

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6,1/10

17 k

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A pet baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives in the city sewers. 12 years later, it grows to an enormous size thanks to a diet of discarded laboratory dogs injected with growth hormones. Now, humans have entered the menu.

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Un crocodile géant grandit dans les égouts de Chicago en se nourrissant de déchets provenant de laboratoires. Il décide un jour de remonter à la surface.Un crocodile géant grandit dans les égouts de Chicago en se nourrissant de déchets provenant de laboratoires. Il décide un jour de remonter à la surface.Un crocodile géant grandit dans les égouts de Chicago en se nourrissant de déchets provenant de laboratoires. Il décide un jour de remonter à la surface.

Réalisation
- Lewis Teague
Scénario
- John Sayles
- Frank Ray Perilli
Casting principal

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NOTE IMDb

6,1/10

17 k

MA NOTE

Réalisation
- Lewis Teague
Scénario
- John Sayles
- Frank Ray Perilli
Casting principal

Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro

Récompenses
- 3 nominations au total

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Commentaire à la une

7/10

I Had A Great Time

I wasn't expecting much of a movie when I sat down to watch this one. I was very pleasantly surprised. With a script by John Sayles, committed performances by leads Robert Forster and Robin Riker, and a happy company of interesting performers, including Michael Gazzo, Dean Jagger, Henry Silva, Sue Lyon, and Mike Mazurki, it wasn't just a cheap JAWS rip-off about trying to stop an alligator flushed down the toilet eighteen years earlier, grown huge on medical wastes and dogs, but something of a screwball comedy, with dialogue at once witty and natural.

It also has an emotional journey. When we first meet police detective Forster, he's depressed because he had lost a partner in a shootout, and his hairline is receding. By the end, he has accomplished his goal, and if his hairline is going, Miss Riker content to be with him.

John Sayles seems to have used his fee from writing this to fund his directorial debut, THE RETURN OF THE SECAUCUS SEVEN. That's a win-win, so far as I am concerned.

boblipton
28 oct. 2022
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Anecdotes
Robert Forster improvised the jokes in regard to his receding hairline, which a delighted John Sayles wrote into the script during shooting for the other characters.

Gaffes
In the first shot of the giant alligator's eye, the entire film crew is reflected in it.

Citations
Callan: [David, Marisa and Callan are walking through the sewer system] What the hell we looking for?
David: Anything that looks like it doesn't belong here.
Marisa: Uh, evidence of alligator nesting.
Callan: I see, like shoes, handbags, luggage...

Versions alternatives
The UK theatrical version of the film was cut by the BBFC to heavily edit scenes of gore, including shots of legs being bitten off, a car being destroyed by the alligator and victims being eaten alive during the garden party attack, and to remove one instance of the word "fuck" in order for the film to receive an "A" (PG) certificate. The cuts were all waived in 1991 when the certificate was raised to a "15", and all subsequent releases of the film are completely uncut.