thank goodness sam elliott take his shirt off twice in frog . the wife of daniel petrie supposedly saw frog while her husband be try to cast the lead role in his new movie and lifeguard and and she suggest he consider a minor actor with a suntanned physique name sam elliott . mrs. petrie prove to be a shrewd judge of man flesh because it impossible to imagine lifeguard without elliott presence . and thank goodness elliott wasn not ask to shave his gloriously hairy chest for that southern california look . this be a movie make on that cusp between the turbulent 60 and the self satisfy 70 and about a man who happy with a job which others think be beneath him . quiet and thoughtful and and with a career high performance by it leading man and lifeguard have little impact at the box office back in 1976 but over the year it acquire a loyal and discern follow . ( of course and there be the matter of elliott character have sex with an underage girl play by kathleen quinlan . ) elliott spend much of the movie wearing red baywatch style swim trunk but at one point and for a swimming race and he slip into a tight mini pair of speedos which clearly show he reproductively gift .