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The Swarm Details

1978

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A star-studded scare film, THE SWARM features 22 million African killer bees crossing the border into the United States. As the city of Houston becomes abuzz with fear, the bees spread havoc, death, but no honey, upon a cast that features Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia de Havilland, .. Read more

Starring	Michael Caine, Olivia De Havilland, Richard Chamberlain, Jose Ferrer
Director	Irwin Allen
Genres	Action/Adventure, Thriller

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The Swarm

Starring	Michael Caine, Olivia De Havilland, Richard Chamberlain, Jose Ferrer, Richard Widmark, Katharine Ross, Patty Duke
Director	Irwin Allen
Studio	AMAZON WEB
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 51 mins
Certificate
Genres	Action/Adventure, Thriller
Language	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 1978 To Rent: DVD: 17 Feb 2003

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- Very obvious all-star disaster movie with risible dialogue. A box-office flop, probably because several TV movies had already tackled the same subject.
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- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:42
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  - 3
  Bee afraid. Bee very afraid...
  
  Brilliant, gripping, engrossing, and superb are all words that appear in The Oxford English Dictionary. Unfortunately none of them apply to this amateurish mess... read more »
  
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  - 24 Aug 2004 at 21:13
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  So Bad, It Almost Seems Like A Spoof
  
  The dialogue is so cliched, the characters so stereotypical and the acting so ridiculously over the top, that this actually seems like a spoof of Irwin Allen ... read more »
  
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- - AndyTRex
  - 11 reviews
  - 30 Apr 2012 at 21:07
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  Hopeless farce
  
  About as bad as a film can get without causing actual physical harm. What were all those big-name actors thinking to be involved with this drivel?
  
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  - 12 Apr 2012 at 20:23
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  5 star swarm
  
  This is vintage Irwin Allen at his best: I'll grant you that it may not stack up against a lot of the creature features made nowadays but it is still a top ... read more »
  
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  - 08 Apr 2012 at 18:12
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  A star-studded scare film, THE SWARM features 22 million African killer bees crossing the border into the United States. As the city of Houston becomes abuzz with fear, the bees spread havoc, death, but no honey, upon a cast that features Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Richard ...