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William Holden, Paul Newman, and Jacqueline Bisset in When Time Ran Out... (1980)

Charlton Heston, Victoria Principal, Geneviève Bujold, Ava Gardner, Lorne Greene, George Kennedy, Marjoe Gortner, Lloyd Nolan, Richard Roundtree, and Barry Sullivan in Earthquake (1974)

Jérôme Genevray, Franck Victor, Suliane Brahim, and Just Philippot in The Swarm (2020)

Fred Astaire, William Holden, Paul Newman, Richard Chamberlain, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, O.J. Simpson, Robert Vaughn, Robert Wagner, Susan Blakely, and Jennifer Jones in The Towering Inferno (1974)

Olivia de Havilland, Henry Fonda, Michael Caine, Richard Chamberlain, Patty Duke, José Ferrer, Slim Pickens, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Bradford Dillman, Lee Grant, Ben Johnson, and Fred MacMurray in The Swarm (1978)

By tomorrow there will be no more Africans... at least not in the Houston sector.

Michael Caine

Katharine Ross

Richard Widmark

Arthur Herzog III

Stirling Silliphant

Deadly African bees spread over Texas and kill thousands of people. Scientists led by Bradford Crane and Captain Helena Anderson try to find an antidote and destroy the swarm - against the advice of Army General Thalius Slater.

Irwin Allen

The Swarm

Once To The Well Too Much, Irwin

Irwin Allen&apos;s first two disaster movies, &quot;The Poseidon Adventure&quot; and &quot;The Towering Inferno&quot; worked as above average productions because there always seemed to be one foot in the ground of pseudo-reality that made you feel compelled by what you saw.  But more importantly, Allen had competent directors like Ronald Neame and John Guillermin handling the actors and the end-result usually produced good performances, considering the material (especially Steve McQueen in &quot;Inferno.&quot;)  Unfortunately, with &quot;The Swarm&quot; Allen went to the well once too much and served up a more outlandish kind of disaster story, and to complicate matters further he took over the director&apos;s chores himself and boy does it show.  There is literally no coherent story structure at all in this film, and the all-star cast is uniformly bad from top to bottom.  What was Allen thinking with that pointless love-triangle plot involving the over-the-hill gang of Fred MacMurray, Ben Johnson and Olivia de Havilland?  Did he really expect people to take seriously lines like &quot;The bees have always been our friends!&quot; or &quot;Attention, a swarm of killer bees is coming this way!&quot;  This is the kind of movie that might have worked as a short, low-budget B/W flick in the 50s (okay, a &quot;B&quot; movie, no pun intended) but as a follow-up to solid efforts like &quot;The Poseidon Adventure&quot; and &quot;The Towering Inferno&quot; this film is only good from a silly camp standpoint.

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Irwin Allen's first two disaster movies, "The Poseidon Adventure" and "The Towering Inferno" worked as above average productions because there always seemed to be one foot in the ground of pseudo-reality that made you feel compelled by what you saw.  But more importantly, Allen had competent directors like Ronald Neame and John Guillermin handling the actors and the end-result usually produced good performances, considering the material (especially Steve McQueen in "Inferno.")  Unfortunately, with "The Swarm" Allen went to the well once too much and served up a more outlandish kind of disaster story, and to complicate matters further he took over the director's chores himself and boy does it show.  There is literally no coherent story structure at all in this film, and the all-star cast is uniformly bad from top to bottom.  What was Allen thinking with that pointless love-triangle plot involving the over-the-hill gang of Fred MacMurray, Ben Johnson and Olivia de Havilland?  Did he really expect people to take seriously lines like "The bees have always been our friends!" or "Attention, a swarm of killer bees is coming this way!"  This is the kind of movie that might have worked as a short, low-budget B/W flick in the 50s (okay, a "B" movie, no pun intended) but as a follow-up to solid efforts like "The Poseidon Adventure" and "The Towering Inferno" this film is only good from a silly camp standpoint.

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