Swarm

UPC: 085391261322

Studio: Warner Home Video

MPAA Rating: NR   Contains:[Mild Violence, Violence, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children]

Summary: Killer bees migrate to the United States from Africa via South America in this disaster film produced and directed by the genre's chief architect, Irwin Allen, and written by Stirling Silliphant, scribe of The Poseidon Adventure. Haughty entomologist Brad Crane (Michael Caine) shows up at a secret military base full of dead soldiers, shocking the attendant General Slater (Richard Widmark). Crane announces that the soldiers are the victims of killer bees with amazingly potent venom; he's been tracking huge swarms of the things and fears they'll kill millions before they're through. Eventually, the president asks Crane to lead the battle against the killer insects and he assembles a team of crack scientists. Meanwhile, the bees overpower a family picnic in nearby Marysville; only the son, Paul (Christian Juttner), escapes with his life. Crane and military physician Helena Anderson (Katherine Ross) head to Marysville to warn the populace about the impending danger. Among the citizens in the direct path of the bees are schoolmarm Maureen Schuster (Olivia de Havilland) and her competing suitors, Felix (Ben Johnson) and Clarence (Fred MacMurray). Eventually, the bees stage a massacre in Marysville and then set their sights on Houston. Neither pesticides, firebombing, nor the heroic sacrifice of scientist Dr. Krim (Henry Fonda) seems to offer a solution for the impending disaster. Universally reviled by critics, The Swarm failed to continue Allen's winning streak at the box office. Caine would re-team with his director the following year for Beyond the Poseidon Adventure. ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi

Category: Action

Awards: Best Costume Design – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Features: ccBehind-the-scenes documentary
Interactive menus
Theatrical trailer
Scene access
English and French soundtracks
English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese subtitles

Swarm

Format: DVD

Release Date: 08/06/2002

Audio: DD1 Dolby Digital Mono, DDS Dolby Digital Surround

Runtime: 155 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish,Portuguese

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 --
1. ICBM Base Gone Dead (Credits)
2. Unexpected Guest
3. Moving Black Mass
4. Crane's Story
5. No Picnic
6. Marysville
7. War Has Finally Started
8. Soothing Paul
9. Plastic Clue
10. Krim Arrives
11. Sheriff Calls the Shots
12. "A Couple-Million Chainsaws"
13. Identifying the Enemy
14. Paul "Discharged"
15. Hope for Felix
16. "No Air Drops!"
17. Fire Bombers
18. Bound for Marysville
19. More Flowers for Maureen
20. Killer Bees Coming!
21. Siege at Marysville
22. Casualties Mount
23. Crediting the Enemy
24. Two Confessions
25. The Enemy's Weapon
26. Helena's Own Business
27. Evacuation
28. Happy Little Town
29. Sudden Feeling; Disaster
30. Brighter Than Thought
31. Life and Death
32. In the Swarm's Path
33. Krim's Final Experiment
34. Nuclear Nightmare
35. No Surrender Yet
36. Houston Occupied
37. Massive Manmade Burning
38. True Inheritors
39. Houston on Fire
40. Bee in Her Bonnet
41. A Sound Solution?
42. Cornered
43. Mobilizing the New Weapon
44. Death to the Swarm
45. End Credits

Cast and Crew: Patty Duke  Actor 
Howard Culver  Actor 
Ernie F. Orsatti  Actor 
Doria Cook  Actor 
Chuck Hayward  Actor 
Frank Blair  Actor 
Steven Marlo  Actor 
Robert Varney  Actor 
Arthur Space  Actor 
Marcia Nicholson  Actor 
Elizabeth Rogers  Actor 
Bill Snider  Actor 
Pat Culliton  Actor 
Steve Powers  Actor 
John Furlong  Actor 
Chris Petersen  Actor 
George Simmons  Actor 
Arell Blanton  Actor 
Trent Dolan  Actor 
Michael Sheehan  Actor 
John Williams  Actor 
Irwin Allen  Director 
Irwin Allen  Producer 
Jerry Goldsmith  Composer (Music Score) 
Stirling Silliphant  Screenwriter 
Michael Caine  Actor 
Katharine Ross  Actor 
Richard Widmark  Actor 
Richard Chamberlain  Actor 
Olivia de Havilland  Actor 
Ben Johnson  Actor 
Lee Grant  Actor 
José Ferrer  Actor 
Slim Pickens  Actor 
Bradford Dillman  Actor 
Fred MacMurray  Actor 
Henry Fonda  Actor 
Cameron Mitchell  Actor 
Christian Juttner  Actor 
Morgan Paull  Actor 
Alejandro Rey  Actor 
Don "Red" Barry  Actor 

Country: USA