The Satan Bug (Blu-ray)
The price for uncovering the secret of the satan bug comes high - YOUR LIFE!
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 54 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 22, 2015
- Originally Released: 1965
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | George Maharis, Richard Basehart, Anne Francis & Dana Andrews | |
Performer: | Frank Sutton, Simon Oakland, Ed Asner, James Doohan, Hari Rhodes & Russ Bender | |
Directed by | John Sturges | |
Edited by | Ferris Webster | |
Screenwriting by | Edward Anhalt & James Clavell | |
Original story by | Alistair MacLean | |
Composition by | Jerry Goldsmith | |
Produced by | John Sturges | |
Director of Photography: | Robert Surtees |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: C+ --
The slow-moving film was dull from the get-go and never picked up any momentum.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 3/4 --
The Satan Bug was a soft performer and has largely been forgotten over time, but it's a natural watch for audiences in the mood for intelligent fare.
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Creative Loafing
Rating: 2/5 --
Best forgotten George Maharis thriller; weak John Sturges.
Kansas City Kansan
There is no talent in 'The Satan Bug' and there is a place for a clear mediocrity that tarnishes the entire film. [Full Review in Spanish]
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Espinof
Product Description:
John Sturges's adaptation of Alistair MacLean's sci-fi novel stars George Maharis as government investigator Lee Barrett. When a flask bearing a recently discovered virus, the Satan Bug, disappears from a top-secret biological research laboratory along with several flasks of a botulinus organism, Barrett is assigned to investigate. Briefed by the general (Dana Andrews) in charge of the investigation and one of its developers, Dr. Hoffman (Richard Basehart), he learns that the Satan Bug is so deadly that it could possibly set off a chain reaction that would wipe out all life on earth. At length, Barrett discovers the whereabouts of the stolen virus, but he and the general's daughter, Ann (Anne Francis), are hijacked by Veretti (Ed Asner) and Donald (John Larkin), henchmen of unseen millionaire Ainsley, an unsavory character who intends to use the virus to take over the world. To demonstrate the seriousness of his threat, Ainsley's accomplices unleash a bit of the botulinus on a small town in Florida, killing all its inhabitants. Ainsley then threatens to destroy the entire city of Los Angleles with another flask of the lethal organism. Both MacLean and Sturges take a detour from the hypermasculine world they do best, turning this interesting premise into a noble melodrama.