Lewis Teague

And this week we are watching the 1980 film Alligator.

Directed by Lewis Teague, uh, known for Cujo, Cat's Eye, The Jewel of the Nile, and a couple that are future-

What was the first movie?

Cujo.

After Boxcar Bertha and within the exploitation scene, there was John Milius' film, Dillinger, Big Bad Mama in 1974, directed by Steve Carver, Crazy Mama in 1975, Jonathan Demme's film.

A little bit later, Lady in Red by Lewis Teague, and that's written by John Sayles.

I find that very interesting in terms of the connections I'm making because, you know, John Sayles' own film of, you know, ten years after, Mate One, is a film that refers to the history of the Wobblies and of the industrial workers of the world and of unionism and, of course, workers' strikes.

It's one of the...

Yeah, might be.

Lewis Teague has a thing for putting people in animal outfits.

In

animal suits,

Seeing an old English sheep or the shaggy dog as it is, even with rabies, I remember not being that scared.

Was it Lewis Teague directed it? I've talked about it before.

There was that period after Carrie where everything King did was optioned for a movie.

And not all of them were very good.