Hollywood's cowboy played a very different kind of character in the '70s horror movie.
With his low, rustic voice, those eyes, often piercing from a side glance, silver-haired, and that mustache, that iconic mustache, we know him: Hollywood’s cowboy, Sam Elliott. For decades, he has been our onscreen man of the open plains, a man in a time when actors who primarily play cowboys feel like a thing of the past, gone with John Wayne. Elliott’s career found a home in the wild, wild west. His on-set wardrobes likely consist of brimmed hats, boots, and period-piece attire.
Given his career that created his on-screen life as one on the open range, it might be surprising that his first leading role was as an environmentalist photojournalist in the 1972 camp eco-horror film, Frogs.
Jason, treading heavily on the delicate ecosystem he’s encompassed by, turns to poisons as a means to kill the living things around him. However, nature is proving to be resilient, and the frogs' noises continue to irritate the family, the worst thing to have ever happened to them. Throughout the movie, it frequently cuts to clips of frogs. Frogs watching; frogs plotting; frogs gathering; frogs swarming.
Frogs saves its most appropriate killing for last. Jason, alone on his island, an island unto himself, is unable to ignore the relentless ribbits as the frogs press against the window. Eventually, they manage to break through. Jason falls to the floor, swarmed by frogs. Not the master of all he thought he was, Jason loses his war with nature; He croaked.
Sam Elliott brings his idiosyncratic characteristics to Frogs. For those who've seen him on screen, it’s hard to overlook that Sam Elliott has a look– as if he’s privy to something you have yet to figure out, and he’s waiting, enjoying you trying to figure out what it is. His classic smirk also makes appearances in Frogs. The “look” and the “smirk” accompany each other, mustache aside, this is his signature look, and it has endured for decades, not losing any luster with the passage of time.
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