The Swarm
Irwin Allen's doomsday epic pits an all-star cast against a North American invasion of killer bees.
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DVD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.85:1
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: December 2, 2014
- Originally Released: 1978
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Michael Caine, Richard Widmark, Bradford Dillman, Katharine Ross, Henry Fonda, Slim Pickens, Patty Duke, Lee Grant, Olivia de Havilland, Ben Johnson, Fred MacMurray, José Ferrer & Richard Chamberlain | |
Performer: | Cameron Mitchell, Christian Juttner, Morgan Paull, Alejandro Rey & Don 'Red' Barry | |
Directed by | Irwin Allen | |
Edited by | Harold F. Kress | |
Screenplay by | Stirling Silliphant | |
Composition by | Jerry Goldsmith | |
Produced by | Irwin Allen | |
Director of Photography: | Fred J. Koenekamp |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 1.5/4 --
As an adult, I recognize that The Swarm is, well, not good, but I can now enjoy it as a so-bad-it's-brilliant endeavor.
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Film Frenzy
The end result is indifference and boredom. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Rating: 1/5 --
A B movie in every sense of the term.
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TV Guide
Killer bees periodically interrupt the arch writing, stilted direction and ludicrous acting in Irwin Allen's disappointing and tired non-thriller.
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Variety
Hugely entertaining in all the ways it isn't meant to be.
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Film4
A number of journalists, rolling in the aisles with laughter, were ejected from the press screening.
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Time Out
Rating: 3/5 --
Hammy action yarn with an entertaining performance from Michael Caine.
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Empire Magazine
Description by OLDIES.com:
While investigating the bee-sting deaths of Air Force personnel at a missile base near Houston, Texas, an entomologist realizes that the dreaded African killer bees -- long expected by scientists -- have arrived in the United States. The hallucination-inducing bees derail a commuter train and destroy a nuclear power plant, killing hundreds of people as scientists race against the clock to develop an antitoxin to stop the devastation of the swarm. Based on the novel by Arthur Herzog.
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- Sales Rank: 12,027
- UPC: 888574092191
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