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26/06/1978 Science Fiction, Horror 1h 56m
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Monsters by the millions - and they're all for real!

Overview

Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Disaster movie-master Irwin Allen's film contains spectacular special effects, including a train crash caused by the eponymous swarm.

  1. Irwin Allen

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Michael Caine

    Brad Crane

  2. Katharine Ross

    Capt. Helena Anderson

  3. Richard Widmark

    Gen. Thaddeus Slater

  4. Richard Chamberlain

    Dr. Hubbard

  5. Olivia de Havilland

    Maureen Schuester

  6. Ben Johnson

    Felix

  7. Lee Grant

    Anne MacGregor

  8. José Ferrer

    Dr. Andrews

  9. Patty Duke

    Rita

  10. View more

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Reviews

A review by Ragnar_Danneskjöld
Written by Ragnar_Danneskjöld on 2021-02-10
Before we had Murder Hornets...We had THE SWARM!!!!

In the 70s, this was one of the media's tools to terrify the populace. Unbelievably as it may seem, when released this movie scared the pants off of America in the same way that Jaws did when it made it to the theaters. The Killer Bee swarms in South America, created in cross-breeding African and Western Honeybees, of course had to share the stage with the other big threats of the day: The Upcoming Global Ice Age and Nuclear Power Plant disasters, both of which also made minor appearances in this film. Nevertheless, the fashionable fear in...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$21,000,000.00

Revenue
$7,700,000.00

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