The Deadly Bees (1966)
Director:
Freddie Francis
Tagline:
« Hives of horror! – Excited by the smell of fear, they inflict their fatal stings! »
Actors:
Vicki Robbins
H.W. Manfred
Ralph Hargrove
Mary Hargrove
Thompson
Rating:
(2’407 votes)
(2’407 votes)
Quotes:
« H.W. Manfred: [Referring to a liquid he has] I've made this especially for you, Vicki.
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« Mary Hargrove: The dog's meat, have you seen it?
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« Vicki Robbins: Why should Hargrove or whoever it was want to destroy your bees?
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« H.W. Manfred: Well, he didn't want to destroy my bees. He wanted to destroy me!
»
Trailer:
Trailer
Runtime:84 minutes
Plots:
An exhausted pop singer is sent on a vacation to a farm, where she realizes that the owner raises deadly bees.
Pop singer Vicki Robbins collapses from exhaustion while shooting the 1960s equivalent of a music video, and her physician prescribes a respite on Seagull Island with colleague and beekeeper Ralph Hargrove. Vicki finds the Hargroves’ bitter marital strife oddly relaxing, but when a mysterious swarm of specially-bred attack bees starts killing island residents, Vicki fights for her survival, setting fire to nearly half the structures on the island in her escape.
When a pop singer collapses while filming a TV appearance, she’s diagnosed with exhaustion and sent to a filthy farm to relax. She soon discovers that the farm’s owner, Hargrove, raises a special kind of bees that will kill people in seconds. When the farmer’s wife and dog are killed, the singer must find a way to stop Hargrove, assisted by her friend, also a beekeeper.
