Pacific Treefrog Calling Sounds Used Incorrectly In Movies
by Satantangoandcash | created - 10 Nov 2013 | updated - 2 weeks ago | PublicEvery kind of frog and toad makes its own unique calling sound during its breeding season. The sound made by the Pacific Treefrog, which can only be heard in western North America, has been used as the background frog calling sound for night scenes or scenes near water since sound was first added to movies, in movies set all around the world.
We also frequently hear the sound of the Pacific Treefrog when we see another kind of frog on screen that should be making a completely different sound.
(You can hear a small chorus of Pacific Treefrogs here: http://www.californiaherps.com/sounds/ptfrogsimdb.mp3)
Most sounds in movies are recorded then added to the movie soundtrack. Pacific Treefrogs are the frogs most often heard at night in southern California where most movies used to be made, so when Hollywood sound recordists went outside the studios at night to record nocturnal sounds to add to movies, they often recorded the calls of Pacific Treefrogs. Those sounds were added later to the soundtracks of many films. Pacific Treefrog sounds also ended up in pre-recorded sound effects tapes, LPs, and CDs used by film sound designers when they needed nighttime background frog sounds.
Pacific Treefrog sounds became what filmmakers and audiences expected to hear outdoors at night when they watched a movie. Since most film sound design is concerned with what the audience expects to hear, not with what they would actually hear at a location in a movie, and since the precedent was already set, the mistake was repeated throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century. If the audience heard the sounds of the frogs that really called in a location outside of the West, they would be confused. Nevertheless, hearing Pacific Treefrog sounds in a movie that is set anywhere outside of the western part of North America is a mistake.
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1. Charley Varrick (1973)
PG | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A man, his wife and their friend stage a bloody bank robbery without realizing they are stealing from the Mob.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr, Andrew Robinson
Votes: 14,125
Somewhere in New Mexico at night we hear Pacific Treefrogs calling. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in New Mexico.
2. Hud (1963)
Passed | 112 min | Drama, Western
Honest, hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant, egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.
Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde
Votes: 23,948 | Gross: $10.00M
At night in rural Texas we hear Pacific Treefrogs calling. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Texas.
3. The Lady Eve (1941)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Romance
A trio of classy card sharks targets a socially awkward brewery heir, until one of them falls in love with him.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 23,389
During scenes at night outside a mansion somewhere in Connecticut we hear Pacific Treefrogs calling. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Connecticut.
4. The Last Picture Show (1971)
R | 118 min | Drama, Romance
In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.
Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Stars: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson
Votes: 52,409 | Gross: $29.13M
At night in West Texas when a car is driving by a lake we hear Pacific Treefrogs calling. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Texas.
5. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Passed | 126 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Two down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett
Votes: 132,464 | Gross: $5.01M
In the mountains of Mexico, during scenes at night we hear Pacific Treefrogs calling. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Mexico outside of Baja California.
6. The Palm Beach Story (1942)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Romance
A New York inventor needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire with a capricious high-society sister.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee
Votes: 12,881 | Gross: $0.44M
During a night in Palm Beach, Florida, we hear Pacific Treefrogs calling. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Florida.
7. Witness (1985)
R | 112 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
While protecting an Amish boy - who is the sole witness to a brutal murder - and his mother, a detective is forced to seek refuge within their community when his own life is threatened.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Lukas Haas, Josef Sommer
Votes: 104,711 | Gross: $68.71M
Set in Amish country in Northeast of the United State. At night we hear Pacific Treefrogs calling along with other frog sounds. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in that part of the country.
8. It Happened One Night (1934)
Passed | 105 min | Comedy, Romance
A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns
Votes: 112,313 | Gross: $4.36M
When a bus stops in the country at night somewhere between Florida and New York we hear Pacific Treefrogs calling. Pacific Treefrogs are not found on the east coast.
9. The Tree of Life (2011)
PG-13 | 139 min | Drama, Fantasy
The story of a family in Waco, Texas in 1956. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence and struggles with his parents' conflicting teachings.
Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken
Votes: 184,165 | Gross: $13.30M
Takes place in Waco Texas but several times we hear choruses of Pacific Treefrogs. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Texas.
10. Badlands (1973)
PG | 94 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town, and her older greaser boyfriend, embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota Badlands.
Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri
Votes: 78,430
We hear choruses of Pacific Treefrogs in the daytime near a river in South Dakota. Pacific Treefrogs are not found South Dakota.
11. Gilda (1946)
Approved | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A small-time gambler hired to work in a Buenos Aires casino discovers his employer's new wife is his former lover.
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 35,288
In Buenos Aires, Argentina, at night we hear Pacific Treefrogs calling. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Argentina.
12. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Approved | 129 min | Crime, Drama
Atticus Finch, a widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama, defends a Black man against an undeserved rape charge, and tries to educate his young children against prejudice.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy
Votes: 332,998
The film is set in Alabama. At night we hear Pacific Treefrogs calling. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Alabama.
13. Body Heat (1981)
R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
During an extreme heatwave, a beautiful Florida woman and a seedy lawyer engage in an affair while plotting the murder of her rich husband.
Director: Lawrence Kasdan | Stars: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Ted Danson
Votes: 40,154 | Gross: $24.06M
During a heat wave in Florida we hear lots of Pacific Treefrogs calling along with Pig frogs and other native Florida frogs. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Florida.
14. Leaves of Grass (2009)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
An Ivy League professor is lured back to his Oklahoma hometown, where his twin brother, a small-time pot grower, has concocted a scheme to take down a local drug lord.
Director: Tim Blake Nelson | Stars: Edward Norton, Keri Russell, Henry Max Nelson, Lucy DeVito
Votes: 27,890 | Gross: $0.07M
During the day at a lake in Oklahoma where Edward Norton is watching Keri Russel noodling for catfish, we hear Pacific Treefrogs calling. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Oklahoma.
15. Out of Sight (1998)
R | 123 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A career bank robber breaks out of jail, and shares a moment of mutual attraction with a U.S. Marshal he has kidnapped.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Steve Zahn
Votes: 99,361 | Gross: $37.56M
During a night scene at Glades prison in Florida during a prison break we hear a small chorus of Pacific Treefrogs calling. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Florida.
16. Suspicion (1941)
Approved | 99 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce
Votes: 42,458 | Gross: $4.50M
Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine stop outside her house at night somewhere in England and we hear a chorus of Pacific Treefrogs calling. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in England.
17. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
PG | 138 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Roy Neary, an Indiana electric lineman, finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon
Votes: 216,980 | Gross: $132.09M
At the beginning of the film, at night in Indiana, when small flying saucers are being seen flying near a road, we hear Pacific Treefrogs calling. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Indiana.
18. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.
Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman
Votes: 330,975 | Gross: $45.51M
Somewhere in the South, Everett and Delmar wake up on the banks of a stream and find only Pete's clothing spread out on the ground as if he had evaporated. A leopard frog crawls out of Pete's clothing and Delmar thinks it's Pete who has been turned into a "toad" as they continue to call it throughout the movie. As it hops into the water it makes the sound of a Pacific Treefrog. Delmar catches it and keeps it in a box until Big Dan the bible salesman Cyclops squashes the frog in his hand and throws it at a tree. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in the South. Leopard frogs don't sound like Pacific Treefrogs.
19. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1943)
Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Romance, War
After an all-night send-off party for the troops, a small-town girl with an awkward boyfriend wakes up to find herself married and pregnant, but with no memory of her husband's identity.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, William Demarest
Votes: 7,944
We hear a chorus of Pacific Treefrogs at night from the front porch and street in the town of Morgan's Creek, and outside of town, which is in an unknown state in the Midwest. At one point, the daughter tells her father she hears a siren and he tells her it's a "tree toad." Pacific Treefrogs are not found in the Midwest.
20. A Shot in the Dark (1964)
PG | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Inspector Clouseau falls in love with a murder suspect and tries to clear her name.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders, Herbert Lom
Votes: 30,962 | Gross: $12.37M
We hear Pacific Treefrogs several times during night scenes at a millionaire's mansion in Paris. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in France.
21. Jacob's Ladder (I) (1990)
R | 113 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Mourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam War veteran attempts to uncover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusions, and perceptions of death.
Director: Adrian Lyne | Stars: Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello, Matt Craven
Votes: 117,940 | Gross: $26.12M
In the opening scene of helicopters flying at night over the Mekong Delta in Viet Nam we hear a chorus of Pacific Treefrogs calling. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Viet Nam.
22. Shane (1953)
Not Rated | 118 min | Drama, Western
A weary gunfighter in 1880s Wyoming begins to envision a quieter life after befriending a homestead family with a young son who idolizes him, but a smoldering range war forces him to act.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon De Wilde
Votes: 44,162 | Gross: $20.00M
During night scenes at a homestead next to a river in Wyoming we hear Pacific Treefrogs calling in the distance. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Wyoming.
23. Stalker (1979)
Not Rated | 162 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko
Votes: 144,828 | Gross: $0.23M
The Writer and the Scientist have just snuck into the Zone with the help of the Stalker. It is morning near water when we hear a few Pacific Treefrogs calling. We hear them once again in daylight when they are farther into the Zone. I don't think we know exactly where the Zone is, but the film was made in Russia by Russians, and Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Russia. I don't know Russian frog calls either, so it's possible there is one that sounds like the PT frog, but that is unlikely.
24. Red River (1948)
Passed | 133 min | Drama, Western
Dunson leads a cattle drive, the culmination of over 14 years of work, to its destination in Missouri. But his tyrannical behavior along the way causes a mutiny, led by his adopted son.
Directors: Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson | Stars: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan
Votes: 34,407
John Waye and Walter Brennan camp next to the Red River on the Texas/Oklahoma border. At night we hear a chorus of Pacific Treefrogs. We hear them later at night when the cattle drive gets back to the Red River and when they are camped in Oklahoma. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Texas or Oklahoma.
25. The Searchers (1956)
Passed | 119 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
An American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond
Votes: 96,339
Somewhere in Texas, some men are sneaking up on an Indian camp at night, wading across a small body of water, and we hear Pacific Treefrogs calling, with the typical loud low-pitched one in the foreground. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Texas. And Monument Valley is not found in Texas, either.
26. The Stranger (1946)
Passed | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi.
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Philip Merivale
Votes: 28,722
Pacific Treefrogs are heard calling at night in the woods near a small town in Connecticut where they are not found.
27. The Big Red One (1980)
R | 113 min | Drama, War
A hardened sergeant and the four core members of his infantry unit try to survive World War II as they move from battle to battle throughout Europe.
Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bobby Di Cicco
Votes: 21,403
At night at a forest somewhere in Czechoslovakia during the war we hear Pacific Treefrogs calling. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Czechoslovakia.
28. Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Passed | 124 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A suave but cynical man supports his family by marrying and murdering rich women for their money, but the job has some occupational hazards.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Mady Correll, Allison Roddan, Robert Lewis
Votes: 19,136 | Gross: $0.33M
At a house somewhere in France, a maid opens a window at night and we hear the sound of a few Pacific Treefrogs for a few seconds. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in France.
29. Return of the Secaucus Seven (1980)
R | 104 min | Drama
Seven former college friends, along with a few new friends, gather for a weekend reunion at a summer house in New Hampshire to reminisce about the good old days, when they got arrested on the way to a protest in Washington, DC.
Director: John Sayles | Stars: Bruce MacDonald, Maggie Renzi, Adam LeFevre, Maggie Cousineau
Votes: 2,230 | Gross: $2.00M
Pacific Treefrogs are heard calling at night in many scenes. The movie was filmed and probably set in New Hampshire where Pacific Treefrogs are not found.
30. Inherit the Wind (1960)
Passed | 128 min | Biography, Drama, History
Based on a real-life case in 1925; two great lawyers argue the case for, and against, a Tennessee science teacher accused of the crime of teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York
Votes: 32,789
At night in the town of Hillsboro, when the preacher is giving a speech, we hear Pacific Treefrogs calling in the background. The film is based on the Scopes Monkey trial which took place in Dayton, Tennessee, so I assume Hillsboro is in Tennessee. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Tennessee.
31. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
R | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free Black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
Director: Steve McQueen | Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt
Votes: 741,540 | Gross: $56.67M
At night on a plantation in Georgia, when Solomon goes outside to write a letter, we hear Pacific Treefrogs calling. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Georgia.
32. Frogs (1972)
PG | 91 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A group of helpless victims celebrate a birthday on an island estate crawling with killer amphibians, birds, insects, and reptiles.
Director: George McCowan | Stars: Ray Milland, Sam Elliott, Joan Van Ark, Adam Roarke
Votes: 7,654 | Gross: $0.48M
We hear lots of Pacific Treefrogs calling near a lake in Florida. We see Cane Toads -(Rhinella marinus) calling like Pacific Treefrogs, with the calls synced to the movement of the toads' throats as they are breathing to make it look like they're calling. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Florida, and Cane toads do not sound like Pacific Treefrogs. Other than that, everything else in this film is 100 percent scientifically accurate... ... ...
33. Venomous (2001 Video)
PG-13 | 97 min | Action, Drama, Horror
Mutant snakes survived a terrorist attack on a government laboratory, and they now threaten the town of Santa Mira Springs, California. Seismic activity has brought snakes to the surface, ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Treat Williams, Mary Page Keller, Hannes Jaenicke, Catherine Dent
Votes: 1,233
At a backyard pond at night in the Mojave Desert we see a female bullfrog and hear the sound of a Pacific Treefrog calling, before, Spoiler Alert!, one of the genetically-mutated killer rattlesnakes gets it.
34. Django Unchained (2012)
R | 165 min | Comedy, Drama, Western
With the help of a German bounty-hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal plantation owner in Mississippi.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington
Votes: 1,696,265 | Gross: $162.81M
This film, set mostly in the antebellum South, gets credit for using location-accurate frog calls in most places - Green Treefrogs, Cricket Frogs, Spring Peepers, etc., but they can't resist throwing in some Pacific Treefrogs too. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in the South.
35. Days of Heaven (1978)
PG | 94 min | Drama, Romance
A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.
Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz
Votes: 62,785
In the Texas panhandle we see a leopard frog from behind and we hear Pacific Treefrogs calling. Then we hear more PT frogs calling as we see elk feeding in a wetland. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Texas.
36. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003)
R | 103 min | Drama, Romance
A boy is raised by a Buddhist monk in an isolated floating temple where the years pass like the seasons.
Director: Kim Ki-duk | Stars: Kim Ki-duk, Oh Yeong-su, Jong-ho Kim, Kim Young-min
Votes: 86,837 | Gross: $2.38M
Pacific Treefrogs are heard at night near an isolated lake somewhere in Korea, where they are not to be found. It's possible there are frogs in Korea with a similar call, but I doubt it.
37. Stray Dog (1949)
Not Rated | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
During a sweltering summer, a rookie homicide detective tries to track down his stolen Colt pistol.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Eiko Miyoshi
Votes: 18,944
We hear a chorus of Pacific Treefrogs calling loudly at night at a detective's home in the country near Tokyo, Japan. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Japan.
38. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
R | 122 min | Biography, Drama, Western
Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.
Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Richard Jaeckel, Katy Jurado
Votes: 21,096 | Gross: $0.95M
As several people on a raft float down a river somewhere in New Mexico in daylight we hear a small chorus of Pacific Treefrogs. There are no Pacific Treefrogs in New Mexico.
39. The Hunger Games (2012)
PG-13 | 142 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister's place in the Hunger Games: a televised competition in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to fight to the death.
Director: Gary Ross | Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Stanley Tucci
Votes: 1,004,116 | Gross: $408.01M
We hear Pacific Treefrogs calling in the background in the countryside during the games. The location where the games are held is not mentioned, but it does not seem to be west of the Rocky Mountains where these frogs occur. Some people think the location is in Canada, and PT frogs do occur on the west coast of Canada, but that is doubtful since the Capital is in the Rockies, and Katniss' district is in the Appalachians.
40. Friendly Persuasion (1956)
Passed | 137 min | Drama, Family, Romance
The pacifist attitude of a Quaker family is tested as a result of the American Civil War.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins, Richard Eyer
Votes: 7,744
Gary Cooper and his family are Quakers who live on a farm in southern Indiana. At night we hear Pacific Treefrogs calling. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Indiana.
41. The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Passed | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A major heist goes off as planned, but then double crosses, bad luck and solid police work cause everything to unravel.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore
Votes: 29,976
This takes place somewhere close to Cleveland and Kentucky, probably east of the Mississippi River. When a man dumps a corpse in a river at night, we hear Pacific Treefrogs calling. Pacific Treefrogs do not occur east of the Rocky Mountains.
42. Kansas City Confidential (1952)
Not Rated | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An ex-con trying to go straight is framed for a million dollar armored car robbery and must go to Mexico in order to unmask the real culprits.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster, Neville Brand
Votes: 8,146
At night, a thug jumps off a getaway truck that drove into the country from Kansas City and we hear Pacific Treefrogs calling. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Missouri or Kansas.
43. Jezebel (1938)
Approved | 104 min | Drama, Romance
In 1850s Louisiana, a free-spirited Southern belle loses her fiancé due to her stubborn vanity and pride, and vows to win him back.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay
Votes: 15,057
We see Bette Davis walking through a swamp at night somewhere near New Orleans, and, in a lousy example of sound design, we hear a single Pacific Treefrog Calling and repeated again and again. After a series of calls, there is an unnatural sound as if the frog was cut off in mid call, making it obvious that the sound effect was looped. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Louisiana.
44. The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
Passed | 116 min | Biography, Drama
The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut, Gloria Holden
Votes: 9,021
At night in Paris Emile Zola runs down stairs after a woman who jumped into the Seine. We hear Pacific Treefrogs in the background when he talks to a homeless man. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in France.
45. Wanda (1970)
GP | 102 min | Crime, Drama
Wanda, a lonely housewife, drifts through mining country until she meets a petty thief who takes her in.
Director: Barbara Loden | Stars: Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins, Dorothy Shupenes, Peter Shupenes
Votes: 5,709 | Gross: $0.05M
We hear Pacific Treefrogs calling at night in Pennsylvania where Pacific Treefrogs are not found.
46. Lonesome Dove (1989)
TV-14 | 96 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Two former Texas Rangers renew their spirit of adventure as they and several other residents of a small Texas town join a cattle drive to the Montana Territory.
Stars: Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover, Diane Lane
Votes: 25,930
We hear Pacific Treefrog calling sounds at night outside a saloon in Lonesome Dove in south Texas, and also at night somewhere in east Texas. Pacific Treefrogs are not found anywhere in Texas.
47. The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972)
G | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A documentary-style drama about the "Fouke Monster", a Bigfoot-type creature that has been sighted in and around Fouke, Arkansas since the 1950s.
Director: Charles B. Pierce | Stars: Willie E. Smith, John P. Hixon, Vern Stierman, Chuck Pierce Jr.
Votes: 3,636 | Gross: $0.34M
We hear bullfrogs and Pacific Treefrogs calling from an Arkansas swamp. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Arkansas.
48. You Only Live Once (1937)
Passed | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The public defender's secretary and an ex-convict get married and try to make a life together, but a series of disasters sends their lives spiraling out of control.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane, Jean Dixon
Votes: 7,653
Henry Fonda and his new wife are honeymooning outside their hotel room at night somewhere in a rural area outside a big city. We hear Pacific Treefrogs calling, but when we see several frogs, which are supposed to be the ones we hear calling, we see American Bullfrogs, not Pacific Treefrogs. We don't know exactly where the couple is staying, but they must be somewhere on the east coast where Pacific Treefrogs do not occur, because they had the option to get on a boat to Havana and they were trying to cross the Canadian border. The only other possible place is Washington State, but it's very unlikely they could catch a boat to Cuba from there in 1936. At any rate, bullfrogs do not sound anything like Pacific Treefrogs.
49. The Holy Mountain (1973)
16+ | 114 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
In a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist leads a messianic character and seven materialistic figures to the Holy Mountain, where they hope to achieve enlightenment.
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky | Stars: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Horacio Salinas, Zamira Saunders, Juan Ferrara
Votes: 48,072 | Gross: $0.06M
In Mexico, we see a large Ranid frog hopping and we hear it making the sound of the Pacific Treefrog. At a circus street performance depicting the conquest of Mexico using horned lizards dressed as Aztecs and Cane toads dressed as conquistadors and monks, a man holds up a Cane Toad dressed as a monk and it makes the sound of a Pacific Treefrog. In Mexico, Pacific Treefrogs are only found in Baja California, where this film does not take place, and Cane toads sound nothing like Pacific Treefrogs.
50. Live and Let Die (1973)
PG | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond is sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate armed with a complex organisation and a reliable psychic tarot card reader.
Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour, Clifton James
Votes: 115,526 | Gross: $35.38M
We hear Pacific Treefrogs calling on the Caribbean island of San Monique After James Bond hang glides from a boat to the top of a cliff and a few times after that. We also hear them calling in Louisiana. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in the Caribbean or in Louisiana.
51. Monkey Business (1931)
Not Rated | 77 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
On a transatlantic crossing, The Marx Brothers get up to their usual antics and manage to annoy just about everyone on board the ship.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, The Marx Brothers, Chico Marx
Votes: 14,282
We hear the sounds of a group of Pacific Treefrogs that are supposed to be the croaking sound of a single frog that is a different species from the Pacific Treefrog.
52. Holes (2003)
PG | 117 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where he joins the job of digging holes for some mysterious reason.
Director: Andrew Davis | Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Tim Blake Nelson
Votes: 100,281 | Gross: $67.41M
At the top of a mountain called God's Thumb in Texas there is a pond where we hear Pacific Treefrogs calling. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Texas.
53. Nightmare Alley (1947)
Passed | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir
The rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker
Votes: 13,419
The film takes place in Chicago and at carnivals in the area. In one scene we see several vagrants drinking alcohol below a wooden railroad bridge and hear Pacific Treefrogs calling in the background. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in the midwest.
54. There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)
R | 126 min | Comedy, Western
A charming but totally ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison. He enlists the help of his cellmates in an escape attempt with the promise of sharing his hidden loot.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Hume Cronyn, Warren Oates
Votes: 5,238 | Gross: $0.64M
One evening in a town not too far from an Arizona territorial prison, we hear Pacific Treefrogs calling. Pacific Treefrogs are only found in a very small area of Arizona near the Colorado River, so this use of their sounds is most likely inappropriate.
55. Isle of the Snake People (1971)
Unrated | 90 min | Horror, Mystery
Evil scientist runs a veritable army of LSD crazed zombies.
Directors: Juan Ibáñez, Jack Hill | Stars: Boris Karloff, Julissa, Carlos East, Rafael Bertrand
Votes: 1,062
On a remote island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean we hear Pacific Treefrogs calling at night throughout the movie. Pacific Treefrogs are not found on remote islands in the middle of the Pacific.
56. The Big Doll House (1971)
R | 95 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Beautiful female prisoners are abused in a Philippine prison until five of them plot an escape by taking the evil female warden hostage with reluctant help from two male fruit vendors.
Director: Jack Hill | Stars: Roberta Collins, Pam Grier, Judith Brown, Brooke Mills
Votes: 3,099 | Gross: $10.00M
At the prison gate at night in the Phillipines we hear Pacific Treefrogs calling. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in the Phillipines.
57. Nevada Smith (1966)
Not Rated | 128 min | Drama, Western
A half-American Indian and half-white teenager evolves into a hardened killer as he tracks down his parents' murderers.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Arthur Kennedy
Votes: 9,113 | Gross: $14.17M
At a campfire at night we hear Pacific Treefrogs calling. The film was made in The Eastern Sierra Nevada and Owens Valley, but the location was supposed to be a mining area in Texas or maybe Oklahoma, somewhere near where the Native American Kiowa people lived. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in that area.
58. Gone Girl (2014)
R | 149 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry
Votes: 1,067,922 | Gross: $167.77M
We hear Pacific Treefrogs calling several times at night in the fictional town of North Carthage, Missouri, and at a house on a lake, which had to be fairly close to Missouri. Pacific Treefrogs are not found anywhere near Missouri.
59. The Deadly Companions (1961)
Approved | 93 min | Adventure, Western
An ex-army officer accidentally kills a woman's son and tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral procession through dangerous Indian territory.
Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Steve Cochran, Chill Wills
Votes: 2,803
When the main characters in the movie are camped at night next to a body of water somewhere in Apache country, most likely Arizona where it was filmed, we hear one or two Pacific Treefrogs calling. Pacific Treefrogs are not found anywhere in Apache country.
60. Secret Beyond the Door... (1947)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
After a lovely woman and her new husband settle in an ancient mansion on the East coast, she discovers that he may want to kill her.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Joan Bennett, Michael Redgrave, Anne Revere, Barbara O'Neil
Votes: 5,717
During night scenes at a wishing well and a honeymoon hotel in Mexico we hear a distant chorus of Pacific Treefrogs. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Mexico, except for Baja California.
61. Band of the Hand (1986)
R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Five juvenile lost causes are sent to the Everglades where a war veteran tries to reform them using survival tactics. Their new skills and resolve are tested when a Miami drug lord targets them for trying to clean up their neighborhood.
Director: Paul Michael Glaser | Stars: Stephen Lang, Michael Carmine, Lauren Holly, John Cameron Mitchell
Votes: 3,243 | Gross: $4.87M
We hear Pacific Treefrogs calling at night in the Florida Everglades. Pacific Treefrogs are not found anywhere in Florida.
62. Telefon (1977)
PG | 102 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A Russian officer is sent to the U.S. to try and stop sleeper agents who will mindlessly attack government entities when they hear certain coded words.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence, Tyne Daly
Votes: 6,252
We hear Pacific Treefrogs calling at night outside a bar in a fictional town named Halderville which is supposed to be somewhere in the Texas countryside. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Texas.
63. The Song of Songs (1933)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Romance
Lily falls in love with the sculptor who leaves her out of fear of commitment.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Brian Aherne, Lionel Atwill, Alison Skipworth
Votes: 938
When Dietrich and her boyfriend stop at a lake which is supposed to be near Berlin, we hear some single warm-up chirps of Pacific Treefrogs that were probably natural background sounds at the California location that were recorded with the dialogue because they are few and inconsistent. Regardless of how the sounds got into the movie, Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Germany.
64. Body and Soul (1947)
Approved | 104 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Sport
A talented boxer's young career hits difficult terrain when an unethical promoter takes interest in him.
Director: Robert Rossen | Stars: John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks, Anne Revere
Votes: 5,368
This great boxing film opens with Pacific Treefrogs calling at night at a boxer's outdoor training ring a short drive outside of New York City. Pacific Treefrogs are not found within at least a thousand miles of New York City.
65. The Yearling (1946)
Approved | 128 min | Drama, Family, Western
A boy persuades his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves?
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr., Chill Wills
Votes: 6,468 | Gross: $5.20M
We hear Pacific Treefrogs calling at a swamp in Florida and at the family cabin. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Florida.
66. Women in Cages (1971)
R | 81 min | Action, Crime, Drama
American women prisoners in a foreign country. Sex and action.
Director: Gerardo de Leon | Stars: Judith Brown, Roberta Collins, Jennifer Gan, Pam Grier
Votes: 1,939
We hear a chorus of Pacific Treefrogs at night outside a prison in the Phillipines. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in the Phillipines.
67. Maverick (1994)
PG | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Bret Maverick, needing money for a poker tournament, faces various comic mishaps and challenges, including a charming woman thief.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner, Graham Greene
Votes: 119,105 | Gross: $101.63M
Next to a stream at night somewhere in the west less than 4 days ride from St. Louis, we hear PT frogs calling. This location is surely outside the range of the Pacific Treefrog.
68. Fort Apache (1948)
Passed | 128 min | Drama, Western
At Fort Apache, an honorable and veteran war captain finds conflict when his regime is placed under the command of a young, glory hungry lieutenant colonel with no respect for the local Indian tribe.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Pedro Armendáriz
Votes: 19,699
At night at Fort Apache in Apache territory in Arizona Territories we hear Pacific Treefrogs calling. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in that area.
69. The Defiant Ones (1958)
Approved | 96 min | Crime, Drama
Two chained-together escaped convicts, White and Black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.
Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Cara Williams, Theodore Bikel
Votes: 17,858
We hear Pacific Treefrogs calling several times when two convicts are travelling at night through a swampy area somewhere in the South. Pacific Treefrogs are not found anywhere in the South. (The exact location is not mentioned, and the film was shot on location in Calfornia, but by the accents of the characters and the mentions of shipping turpentine north and the depiction of a turpentine camp, the location is somewhere in the South, where turpentine was distilled from tree resin.)
70. The Great Santini (1979)
PG | 115 min | Drama
As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated Marine pilot.
Director: Lewis John Carlino | Stars: Robert Duvall, Blythe Danner, Michael O'Keefe, Lisa Jane Persky
Votes: 6,949
When a boy jumps into the water to escape some angry bees at night in South Carolina, we hear a chorus of Pacific Treefrogs calling. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in South Carolina.
71. The Horse Soldiers (1959)
Approved | 120 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In 1863, a Union outfit is sent behind Confederate lines in Mississippi to destroy enemy railroads but a captive southern belle and the unit's doctor cause frictions within ranks.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers, Judson Pratt
Votes: 11,656 | Gross: $1.75M
When Union cavalry soldiers descend into a swamp in Mississippi, we hear Pacific Treefrogs calling along with many other exaggerated sound effects. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Mississippi.
72. Dr. Cyclops (1940)
Passed | 77 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
A mad scientist working in the South American jungle miniaturizes his colleagues when he feels his megalomania is threatened.
Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: Albert Dekker, Thomas Coley, Janice Logan, Charles Halton
Votes: 2,890
We hear Pacific Treefrogs calling at night in South America. Pacific Treefrogs are only found in western North America.
73. Hang 'Em High (1968)
Approved | 114 min | Drama, Western
When an innocent man barely survives a lynching, he returns as a lawman determined to bring the vigilantes to justice.
Director: Ted Post | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Pat Hingle, Ed Begley
Votes: 43,126
The movie is set in Oklahoma where there are no Pacific Treefrogs, but we hear Pacific Treefrogs calling at night in two scenes.
74. Swamp Women (1956)
Approved | 67 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
An undercover policewoman helps three female convicts escape from prison so that they can lead her to a stash of stolen diamonds hidden in a swamp.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Marie Windsor, Carole Mathews, Beverly Garland, Mike Connors
Votes: 2,027
Pacific Treefrogs call for most of the movie as 4 escaped female convicts boat through a Louisiana swamp, where Pacific Treefrogs are not found.
75. Duel in the Sun (1946)
Passed | 129 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Beautiful, biracial Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between two brothers, one good and the other bad.
Directors: King Vidor, Otto Brower, William Dieterle, Sidney Franklin, William Cameron Menzies, David O. Selznick, Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lionel Barrymore
Votes: 9,486 | Gross: $20.41M
We hear Pacific Treefrogs calling in the evening at a swimming hole in Texas. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Texas.
76. The Train Robbers (1973)
Passed | 92 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
A gunhand named Lane is hired by a widow, Mrs. Lowe, to find gold stolen by her husband so that she may return it and start fresh.
Director: Burt Kennedy | Stars: John Wayne, Ann-Margret, Rod Taylor, Ben Johnson
Votes: 6,711
77. Back to Bataan (1945)
Approved | 95 min | Drama, War
In 1942, after the fall of the Philippines to the Japanese, U.S. Army Col. Joseph Madden stays behind to organize the local resistance against the Japanese invaders.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Beulah Bondi, Fely Franquelli
Votes: 4,373
78. Rooster Cogburn (1975)
PG | 108 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Marshal Rooster Cogburn unwillingly teams up with Eula Goodnight to track down her father's murderers.
Director: Stuart Millar | Stars: John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Jordan
Votes: 13,137 | Gross: $8.02M
79. Congo (1995)
PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
When an expedition to the African Congo ends in disaster, a new team is assembled to find out what went wrong.
Director: Frank Marshall | Stars: Laura Linney, Tim Curry, Dylan Walsh, Ernie Hudson
Votes: 48,688 | Gross: $81.02M
80. Perils of Pauline (1933)
Passed | 231 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A famous scientist and his beautiful daughter travel to Indochina to find an ivory disc that has the formula for a deadly gas engraved on it. An evil doctor and his gang are also looking for it.
Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Evalyn Knapp, Craig Reynolds, James Durkin, John Davidson
Votes: 157
We hear Pacific Treefrogs calling in the African Jungle, thousands of miles from where they are found.
81. Ulzana's Raid (1972)
R | 103 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
After fierce war chief Ulzana and a small war party jump the reservation bent on murder and terror, an inexperienced young lieutenant is assigned to track him down.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Bruce Davison, Jorge Luke, Richard Jaeckel
Votes: 6,480
We hear Pacific Treefrogs calling at night in several scenes which take place in Chiricahua Apache country in Arizona where there are no Pacific Treefrogs.
82. The Tall Texan (1953)
Approved | 84 min | Drama, Western
A group of travelers in the Southwest band together to search for gold on Indian burial grounds. Convict Ben Trask attempts to maintain order within the group as they are faced with greed and danger.
Director: Elmo Williams | Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Lee J. Cobb, Marie Windsor, Luther Adler
Votes: 199
We hear Pacific Treefrogs calling at night in several scenes by a creek in New Mexico where there are no Pacific Trefrogs.
83. Ride Lonesome (1959)
Approved | 73 min | Western
A bounty hunter (Randolph Scott) escorts a killer (James Best) to be tried for murder, but allows the man's outlaw brother (Lee Van Cleef) to catch up with them to have a showdown over a previous shocking murder.
Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Randolph Scott, Karen Steele, Pernell Roberts, James Best
Votes: 6,606
We hear Pacific Treefrogs calling by a river at night somewhere in Arizona where they don't occur. (They are so faint in the background that it's possible they were actually calling in the background when the dialogue was recorded on the set since the film was made in the Owens Valley.)
84. The Reptile (1966)
Approved | 90 min | Horror
In a Cornish village, various locals die from mysterious snake bites, but the coroner rules the deaths as heart attacks, until a family of newcomers starts an investigation.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Noel Willman, Jennifer Daniel, Ray Barrett, Jacqueline Pearce
Votes: 3,963
We hear Pacific Treefrogs calling at night in the UK where they are not found.
85. The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Approved | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
An Englishman on a Ruritarian holiday must impersonate the king when the rightful monarch, a distant cousin, is drugged and kidnapped.
Directors: John Cromwell, W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, C. Aubrey Smith, Raymond Massey
Votes: 5,068
After dark at a castle on a lake in a country somewhere in Europe, we hear Pacific Treefrogs calling. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Europe.
86. The Alligator People (1959)
Approved | 74 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A woman in a hypnotic state recounts to two doctors the details of a horrific experience from her past life that began with the mysterious and sudden disappearance of her husband.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Beverly Garland, Bruce Bennett, Lon Chaney Jr., George Macready
Votes: 2,509
We hear Pacific Treefrogs calling at night several times from a swamp in Louisiana. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in Louisiana.
87. Shalako (1968)
M/PG | 113 min | Drama, Western
In 1880 New Mexico, a group of European hunters runs afoul of the Apache but is aided by an ex-cavalryman turned guide.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Sean Connery, Brigitte Bardot, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins
Votes: 3,485
We hear Pacific Treefrogs calling at night somewhere on an Apache reservation in New Mexico. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in New Mexico.
88. Wind Across the Everglades (1958)
Approved | 93 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
An ornithologist battles a family of bird poachers in the Florida Everglades.
Directors: Nicholas Ray, Budd Schulberg | Stars: Burl Ives, Christopher Plummer, Chana Eden, Gypsy Rose Lee
Votes: 1,248
We hear Pacific Treefrogs calling at night in the Everglades, thousands of miles from where they are found.
89. Chandu the Magician (1932)
Passed | 71 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When delusional madman Roxor kidnaps a scientist in hopes of using his death ray to achieve world dominance, he is opposed by Chandu, a powerful hypnotist and yogi.
Directors: William Cameron Menzies, Marcel Varnel | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Irene Ware, Bela Lugosi, Herbert Mundin
Votes: 1,138
We hear Pacific Treegfrogs calling at night from the Nile river in Egypt which is several thousand miles east of their range.
90. The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
G | 68 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Englishmen race to find the tomb of Genghis Khan before the sinister Fu Manchu does.
Directors: Charles Brabin, Charles Vidor | Stars: Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley, Charles Starrett
Votes: 3,714 | Gross: $0.82M
We hear Pacific Treefrogs calling at night somewhere in China, but they are only found all the way on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.
91. The Southerner (1945)
Approved | 92 min | Drama
The life of the poor Tucker family who worked as cotton pluggers and decided to get their own ground, but nature was against them.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carrol Naish, Beulah Bondi
Votes: 3,874
We hear Pacific Treefrogs calling in the evening somewhere in the cotton growing region of the South, far from where Pacific Treefrogs are found.
92. Born to the West (1937)
Approved | 49 min | Drama, Western
Can Dare Rudd prove he is responsible enough to win the heart of Judy and also outwit the crooked saloon owner?
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: John Wayne, Marsha Hunt, Johnny Mack Brown, John Patterson
Votes: 1,033
We hear Pacific Treefrogs calling at night in Wyoming. There are no Pacific Treefrogs in Wyoming.
93. The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
Approved | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Despite marital problems, English Lord Albert Esketh and his rich American socialite wife Lady Edwina Esketh travel to India to buy a prize horse from the ruler of Ranchipur.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Lana Turner, Richard Burton, Fred MacMurray, Joan Caulfield
Votes: 1,154
We hear Pacific Treefrogs calling at night in India, halfway around the world from where they occur.
94. Red Dust (1932)
Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The owner of a rubber plantation becomes involved with the new wife of one of his employees.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond, Mary Astor
Votes: 4,932 | Gross: $1.70M
We hear Pacific Treefrogs calling at Clark Gable's rubber plantation in southern Vietnam which is the wrong side of the Pacific Ocean for the frogs.
95. The Frisco Kid (1979)
PG | 119 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A Polish rabbi wanders through the Old West on his way to lead a synagogue in San Francisco. On the way, he is nearly burned at the stake by Native Americans and almost killed by outlaws.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Gene Wilder, Harrison Ford, Ramon Bieri, Val Bisoglio
Votes: 11,503 | Gross: $9.35M
We hear Pacific Treefrogs calling in the daytime when Gene Wilder crosses a creek somewhere between Pennsylvania and Ohio, far from the native range of these frogs.
96. Road to Zanzibar (1941)
Passed | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical
Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con-women.
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Una Merkel
Votes: 3,373
Pacific Treefrogs call at night somewhere in Africa thousands of miles from where they are found.
97. Hot Saturday (1932)
Approved | 73 min | Drama, Romance
A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious womanizer.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Cary Grant, Nancy Carroll, Randolph Scott, Edward Woods
Votes: 1,374
Pacific Treefrogs call at night from a lake in Ohio where they are not found. The location of the lake in the story is never specifically mentioned (Lake Arrowhead in California is where it was filmed) but the marriage license we see on screen shows that the female protagonist lives in Cottonwood Grove, Ohio. (The opening of the film calls the town Marysville.)
98. The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
R | 98 min | Fantasy, Horror
An anthropologist goes to Haiti after hearing rumors about a drug used by black magic practitioners to turn people into zombies.
Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae, Paul Winfield
Votes: 27,651 | Gross: $19.60M
Pacific Treefrogs call at night in Haiti, thousands of miles from their natural range.
99. Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Romantic antics abound among the guests at a luxury hotel, including a stage director, an eccentric millionaire, and the daughter of a financial backer.
Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart, Alice Brady
Votes: 2,963
In a fountain in the lobby of a luxury hotel at Lake Waxapahachie NH we see a bullfrog that sounds like a Pacific Treefrog. Pacific Treefrogs are not found in New Hampshire and the call of the bullfrog sounds nothing like the call of the Pacific Treefrog.
100. Bride of the Gorilla (1951)
Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Horror
The owner of a plantation in the jungle marries a beautiful woman. Shortly afterward, he is plagued by a strange voodoo curse which transforms him into a gorilla.
Director: Curt Siodmak | Stars: Barbara Payton, Lon Chaney Jr., Raymond Burr, Tom Conway
Votes: 1,436
Pacific Treefrogs are calling throughout the movie which takes place somewhere in the Amazon - where there are hundreds of species of frogs, but no Pacific Treefrogs.
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