The Frog | |
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Directed by | Jack Raymond |
Written by | Ian Hay (adaptation) Gerald Elliott (screenplay) |
Based on | novel The Fellowship of the Frog by Edgar Wallace |
Produced by | Herbert Wilcox |
Starring | Gordon Harker Noah Beery Jack Hawkins Carol Goodner |
Cinematography | Freddie Young (as F.A. Young) |
Edited by | Merrill G. White (as Merrill White) Frederick Wilson (as Fred Wilson) |
Production company | |
Distributed by | General Film Distributors (UK) |
Release date | 20 June 1937 (London) (UK)[1] |
Running time | 75 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
The Frog is a 1937 British crime film directed by Jack Raymond and starring Gordon Harker, Noah Beery, Jack Hawkins and Carol Goodner.[2] The film is about the police chasing a criminal mastermind who goes by the name of The Frog. It was based on the 1925 novel The Fellowship of the Frog by Edgar Wallace, and the 1936 play version by Ian Hay. It was followed by a loose sequel The Return of the Frog, the following year.
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Here we will explore true facts about the frog Frogs are not merely proof that French people will put anything into their mouths, they are also amphibians. which means that they're a bit wishy washy on the whole evolution thing. Oh.. that was pretty cool... Did you see that? It has a transparent eyelid! Good for sexy winking. The Frog begins its life as water larvae that resemble gigantic sperms. Which should make you appreciate how tiny our sperm is. If our sperm was that big it would be uncomfortable, for everyone. Think about it. Now stop thinking about it you Perve. After a time is a Spanish water breathing vegetarian the larvae undergo a rapid 24-hour metamorphosis we absorbing their tails growing limbs and lungs and emerging as graceful adult strollers. Although now on air breather the frogs still relies on its permeable skin for oxygen and keeps its skin moist by producing mucus Imagines sneezing but through your entire body. That is how a frog do. Every couple of days the frog sheds its skin, and as the French may or may not do, it eats its own full-body booger in public. perhaps the taste of booger awakens a taste for flash for the adult frog preys upon the living. Whoo! Settle down there spazzy! luckly for this mouse the frog eats worms, and inse.... Holy Crap! Strike that! Not lucky, not looking for the mouse. Yes, and just like the French the frog even has a taste for frog. when Kermit first met Miss Piggy He said, "Be careful I might eat you." And that became one of the biggest miscommunications of all time Right now you're probably, wondering am I a frog? how could I tell? Here's a simple test. Listen to this. (Frog Noises) If that turned you on, you might be a frog because all of those frogs where basically saying F*ck Me. Except that last one he was just saying... (Frog Squealing) After a female was chosen a male based on how loud he yells F*ck Me he climbs on her back and holds her very tightly and what is known as amplexus. Ohh! that's sad. The little eyeball picking out at the bottom. that's not where you wanna be. amplexus sometimes lasts for days and doesn't really look all that sexy. The squeezing however triggers the female to release earnings achieving fertilizes externally... messy messy a froggy style. the fertilized egg lack a shell, and are fragile, and must be kept moist, and protected. Some frogs take this very seriously. the unusual sir nom toad. Yes toads are frogs, moves the eggs to her back. the eggs then sinking to her flair perform safe pockets in which the larvae develop... mmmmmmm That is very disturbing to me. I have nightmares when that happens to my legs. Owww! You can see the moving, Uhh! Alright they're coming out! Look away, look away! I'm not looking that is traumatic. Always remember, practice safe sex. Or your back Mike just get pregnant.
Cast
- Gordon Harker as Sgt. Elk
- Noah Beery as Joshua Broad
- Jack Hawkins as Captain Gordon
- Carol Goodner as Lola Bassano
- Richard Ainley as Ray Bennett
- Vivian Gaye as Stella Bennett
- Esme Percy as Philo Johnson
- Felix Aylmer as John Bennett
- Cyril Smith as PC Balder
- Harold Franklyn as Hagen
- Gordon McLeod as Chief Commissioner
- Julien Mitchell as John Maitland
Critical reception
Writing for Night and Day in 1937, Graham Greene gave the film a poor review, describing it as "badly directed [and] badly acted". He admitted that "it has an old-world charm" but complained that the "well-mannered dialogue drones on".[3]
Britmovie called it a "routine thriller",[4] while British Pictures observed that the film "suffers through being an adaptation of a theatre adaptation (by Ian Hay) of the original novel. Some of the exposition is clunky and at times confusing; and the direction needed someone like Walter Forde to make the most of it. Hawkins and Harker, in the roles they played on stage, hold it together."[5]
See also
- Mark of the Frog (1928, film serial)
- Der Frosch mit der Maske (1959)
References
- ^ 'The Frog: New Gallery (A) Sunday', News Chronicle, 19 June 1937, p.10
- ^ "The Frog". BFI. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009.
- ^ Graham Greene, 'We from Kronstadt/The Frog/Make Way for Tomorrow/Der Herrscher', Night and Day, 1 July 1937; reprinted in John Russell Taylor (ed), The Pleasure Dome, Oxford University Press 1980, p.150
- ^ "The Frog". britmovie.co.uk.
- ^ David Absalom. "ARCHIVE Fou - Fz: British Films of the 30s, 40s and 50s". britishpictures.com.
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