From the world of low-budget production comes a sci-fi feature that may have had promise in the right hands. The film begins with two scientists attempting to solve the mystery behind their nurse's amnesia history. Under hypnosis she relates an unbelievable tale about her husband suddenly vanishing, and later being traced by her to a remote manor in the Southern U.S. swamplands. There she finds her husband's mother who at first refuses to admit who she is and is insistant on her distraught daughter-in-law to leave the swampland manor. Also in the home resides a somewhat unbalanced scientist, played in a rather campy style by George Macready, who is experimenting on limb rejuvenation. Using a serum made from alligators, his experiments turn humans into - well what else - alligator people. The nurse eventually finds that her husband has become one of these creatures. The make-up effects by famous mask-creator/make-up artist Dick Smith should have been more realistic. The early stages where the victim develops scaley skin is quite effective, but later after changing into a creature with an alligator head it is way too obvious the actor is wearing a stiff-unflexible head mask. The nurse is played adequately by Beverly Garland, Richard Crane plays her husband, Bruce Bennett (a former Tarzan from the late 40's-early 50's) plays one of the scientists trying to unravel the nurses mystery, but the best part of the movie is Lon Chaney, Jr. cast as a drunkard alligator hunter with a hook for a missing hand that was bitten off by some kind of swampland reptile. Unfortunately there is not enough of Chaney in the film to help improve its concocted story. With today's special effects, and maybe an improved story-line, this film might be very interesting as a remake. I can only recommend "Alligator People" to fans of Lon Chaney, Jr. and alligators.