Crocodile was epic.


The part where the crocodile attacks the lady scientist was great. First you see her swimming, then stock footage of either crocs or alligators, don't know which, then you see it floating the in water...

The worst fake crocodile ever made for any movie, ever. Columbia was super super cheap, but you have to wonder, with all the hundreds and hundreds of movies they had previously made, didn't they have either a piece of stock footage of a single croc or gator swimming or didn't they have better fake rubber croc leftover from a better movie? This one looked kind of like a monitor lizard halloween costume made by a 3rd grade kid...except floating.

Then, to add to the fun, the crocodile decides that instead of biting the lady, he is going to wrap his tail around her ankle...

So the tail of the fake alligator appears to be a fake octopus tentacle...you do not get to see where the tail connects to the croc. You do see the tentacle wrapping around the lady's ankle. Which of course is logical...a hungry predator decides that first he is going to just hold the victim by the ankle for a couple minutes and contemplate his options, rather than just try to ingest as much protein as possible before the prey can escape.

All this was awesome, but it was also awesome that Weismueller just stabs the tentacle, the tentacle lets go, and Johnny and the lady take a moment to discuss things in the water, with the croc just a few feet away, still alive, still with fangs and a big jaw.

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