The Deadly Bees (1966)

Directed by

Freddie Francis

Genre

horror film, science fiction film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 24m

Rated

16

Rating

4.4 of 10 from 40 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A pop singer goes to an island to rest. She finds farmers fighting swarms of killer bees. A bee expert tries to help but the situation turns deadly.

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What happens

The Deadly Bees is a 1967 British horror film based on H. F. Heard's 1941 novel A Taste for Honey. It was directed by Freddie Francis, and stars Suzanna Leigh, Guy Doleman, and Frank Finlay. The original screenplay was by Robert Bloch but was rewritten by Anthony Marriott. The film was released theatrically in the United States in 1967 and was featured in a 1998 episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Heard's novel, which was a sort of Sherlock Holmes pastiche, had been previously adapted for television as a 60-minute drama episode of The Elgin Hour: season 1, episode 11 under the title "Sting of Death" (22 February 1955), starring Boris Karloff as the detective character from Heard's novel, Mr. Mycroft. According to H. F. Heard's official website, kinescopes of this TV dramatisation survive, and, in 2014, it was made commercially available for home video as one of several features in a DVD, released by Synergy Entertainment, titled Sherlock Holmes: The Archive Collection Vol. 1. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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