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Bookmark this pageThe Satan Bug (1964)
Director: John Sturges
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
One of umpteen Alistair MacLean paperback thrillers (this one written under the pseudonym of Ian Stuart) definitively pulped in their transition to celluloid, this is the would-be Dr Strangelove of biological warfare, with rebel scientist Basehart legging it alone with a stolen vial of deadly virus, threatening global annihilation. Half-hearted and dull, despite the contributions of heavyweight adaptors James Clavell and Edward Anhalt, working at odds with an out-of-his element Sturges.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: John Sturges
Producer: John Sturges
Cast: George Maharis, Richard Basehart, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews, Edward Asner, Frank Sutton, John Larkin full cast
Genre(s): Action/Adventure
Duration: 113 mins
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