The Great Alligator

The Great Alligator

89 mins | Horror | Nov. 3, 1979

A tourist resort in Africa finds itself at the mercy of a huge man-eating crocodile from a local native legend which the croc is the incarnation of a native god angered by the intrusion of the tourists on its nesting ground. After a new natives are killed and eaten, they naturally blame the tourists and set out to kill them while the survivors try to rally on a boat with the hungry crocodile in the water, and the blood-thirsty natives on land waiting for them.

The Great Alligator

89 mins | Horror | Nov. 3, 1979

The Great Alligator
A tourist resort in Africa finds itself at the mercy of a huge man-eating crocodile from a local native legend which the croc is the incarnation of a native god angered by the intrusion of the tourists on its nesting ground. After a new natives are killed and eaten, they naturally blame the tourists and set out to kill them while the survivors try to rally on a boat with the hungry crocodile in the water, and the blood-thirsty natives on land waiting for them.
IMDb rating 4.5
Producers Dania Film, Medusa Produzione
Original title Il fiume del grande caimano
Directors Sergio Martino
Writers Cesare Frugoni, Mara Maryl, Ernesto Gastaldi, George Eastman, Sergio Martino

Cast

Barbara Bach

as Alice Brandt

Claudio Cassinelli

as Daniel Nessel

Mel Ferrer

as Joshua

Romano Puppo

as Peter

Fabrizia Castagnoli

as Minou's Mother

Enzo Fisichella

as Maurice, lover of Minou's Mother

Lory Del Santo

as Jane

Anny Papa

as Laura

Bobby Rhodes

as Joshua's forman

Clara Colosimo

as Tourist

Peter Boom

as Tourist With Rifle

Giulia D'Angelo

as British Tourist

Marco Mastantuono

as British Tourist

Geneve Hutton

as Sheena

Silvia Collatina

as Minou

Richard Johnson

as Prophet Jameson

Isabella Zanussi

as Tourist (uncredited)