For those of you too young to remember---African Killer Bees were considered a real threat to US populated areas and US crop. Looking back now it was popular fodder for a disaster/horror films to be made...Also to put things into perspective a bit, Irwin Allen was riding the zenith of his career during the production of this film having just come off the success of both the Poseidon Adventure and Towering Inferno...Both of those films are on the Top 10 list of box office champions of the 1970's so it was not difficult for Allen to assemble such an myriad of A-list stars and even convince some legends like MacMurray and DeHavilland to sign on for the project. Without going into the specifics of the film since most of the previous comments have done that...Its interesting to note that this film and Concorde Airport 1979 had pretty much closed the lid on the big disaster film genre in Hollywood...Producers were focusing on the big stars and budget and not the script since this was not considered serious drama...For disaster film buffs - Check out the early Airport films, Earthquake, or Poseidon and Towering Inferno...Allen directed here due to an implausible script so this film is just recommended as a curiosity now..And this film was meant to be taken straight and not camp.
Review of The Swarm
