Trog is undoubtedly one of the campest and unintentionally hilarious films to ever star a former Academy Award winner and cult fans delight in this tale of a world-famous anthropologist (Joan Crawford hamming it up superbly) who discovers a living troglodyte at the bottom of a Yorkshire pothole.
Granted it was shot nearly 25 years after silver screen icon Crawford picked up Oscar gold, but still, it’s mind-boggling.
Dr Brockton (Crawford) puts “Trog” in a rather fragile cage in her conveniently adjacent research institute and is on the verge of teaching him coherent speech when nasty posh baddie Sam Murdock (Michael Gough) prods the brute into a blind rampage and releases him.
Posh baddie pays the price but a grocer is impaled on a meat hook, a car is tossed aside like a twig, a child is kidnapped . . . so poor old Trog eventually has to be destroyed. It’s terrible bunkum but great fun.
The make-up of the troglodyte, AKA Trog, is hilariously bad, but then again so are Crawford’s boldly coloured pantsuits.
Trog was Crawford’s final film.
Dr Brockton
Joan Crawford Sam Murdock
Michael Gough Trog
Joe Cornelius Inspector Greenham
Bernard Kay Ann Brockton
Kim Braden Malcolm Travers
David Griffin Cliff
John Hamill Dr Selbourne
Jack May Bill
Geoffrey Case Dr Richard Warren
Robert Hutton Colonel Vickers
Simon Lack Alan Davis
David Warbeck Dr Kurtlimer
Paul Hansard Dr Pierre Duval
Robert Crewdson John Dennis
Brian Grellis Prof Manoskiensky
Golda Casimir
Director
Freddie Francis
Video
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