Jason Crockett is an aging, grumpy, physically disabled millionaire who invites his family to his island estate for his birthday celebration. Pickett Smith is a free-lance photographer who is doing a pollution layout for an ecology magazine. Jason Crockett hates nature, poisoning anything that crawls on his property. On the night of his birthday the frogs and other members of nature begin to pay Crockett back.
Practical Effects
Real frogs, fake tension, and death by... butterfly?
Acting
Sam Elliott's hair outperforms the entire amphibian cast.
Production
Florida swamp location doing 90% of the atmospheric heavy lifting.
Director
George McCowan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'frogs' were actually toads, and most close-ups used rubber props because real ones refused to perform.
Released weeks before the first Clean Water Act vote, this accidentally became Nixon-era environmental propaganda.
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