Trog

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Trog

This minor B-flick made cinema history as the last theatrical film of Joan Crawford's career. Yes, it's pretty lousy, but I wasn't bored watching it. A prehistoric man found living underground is captured by scientists but eventually gets loose and causes havoc. Not completely incompetent: Crawford tries very hard to be studious and sympathetic as the scientist who conducts experiments on the troglodyte, and the film's production certainly isn't terrible. Still, when all is said and done, it is a little cheesy watching an actress of Joan Crawford's stature having semi-serious conversations with a grunting, fur-covered caveman. *1/2 from ****

You wonder many times during the watching of the movie if it was deliberately funny or not. I don't think so after all. But it is never boring. The classic and usual scheme of the "evil" beast which nearly every character of the movie is feared of, and who eventually will provoke empathy from the audience. You had many features like this one; I saw KONGA not long ago and I felt the same thing as here. Poor Joan Crawford does her best to play in this anthropologist character trying to domesticate the beast, with predictable results. You won't wep at the end, but maybe feel some kind of ash taste in the mouth; this despite the corny side of this story.

Joan Crawford's infamously bad swan song, the story of an anthropologist (Crawford) who makes a study of a missing link, whom she dubs "Trog" (short for "troglodyte"). The film is extremely cheap and cheesy. Hey, I like extremely cheap and cheesy. If it were only that, I probably would love the movie. But what makes the movie bad is its slow pace. People talk interminably about stupid things, and the boredom sets in and never leaves. The scenes where Trog and Crawford play ball are the very definition of camp, and I would have much preferred Trog's final rampage to last 80% of the film's run. So, due to boredom, this truly is a terrible movie. It may be bad, but I still liked it more than Love Story, which was released the same year.

and then shoot me with it...this is an absolute howler!! See Joan face down the troglodyte with her "hypo-gun"!!! See Joan's wardrobe of pink, white and tan lab coats!! See Joan bully the troglodyte into submission!......The sad end to a glorious career for sure,but let there be no doubt, it's still the one and only Joan.....kicking troglodyte ass no less. Heck, if I had a murderous troglodyte on the loose, I'd call Joan.............Crawford is quite game with her role as the scientist(?) and maintains a straight face throughout....no matter if she is tossing rubber lizards to the troglodyte or crawling around in the dark calling out to the TROG! This is a gloriously bad movie. MOMMIE DEAREST was no crueler than this.