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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304411414
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6304411413
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Running Time: 114 minutes
Sales Rank: 4431
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1964
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Solid mid 60's thriller
The Satan Bug is an uncharacteristic Alistair Maclean movie in that ,unlike his biggest box office pictures, it is not a straightforward slice of heroics but a more nuanced espionage slanted movie with some moral ambivalence to it .It seems Maclean reciognised this too for he authored the book pseudonymously -as Ian Stuart.
The Satan Bug is a deadly virus developed by the US government in a secret research facility in the desert.Flasks housing samples of the virus are stolen and threats ... Read More
Rating:  - Nice Thriller
This is a pretty taut little doomsday thriller, detailing the terrorist theft of some nasty biological weapons -- one of which can wipe out all life on Earth (hence, the movie's name). Good, straight-as-an-arrow performances are augmented by a nicely paced storyline. You'll see a lot of TV veterans in this flick, and they don't disappoint.
The warehouse scene (with the broken flask) and the helicopter fight are particularly well done. It's too bad this film hasn't been converted to DVD. ... Read More
Rating:  - Where's the DVD?
I don't really care about the other opinions; I thought "The Satan Bug" was a taut thriller, and I enjoyed it a lot. It's always great to see any moment of Anne Francis, the wonderful actress who left us WAY too soon. I would like to see DVDs of the "Honey West" series, and I very much would like to see "The Satan Bug" on DVD. There's a lot of junk on DVD now; this film certainly is more worthy than most. UPDATE: Oops! How could I confuse Anne Francis with Inger Stevens? Anne is alive, and that's great! ... Read More
Rating: - George Maharis: The Hunter Not Home From The Hill
A 1965 release, The Satan Bug falls firmly into the B-film category of sixties cinema, and will find a comfortable place alongside other Hollywood science-fiction and adventure movies of that era such as Tarzan & The Valley of Gold (1966), Mackenna's Gold (1966), Fantastic Voyage (1966), Planet of the Apes (1968), Marooned (1969), and Valley of Gwangi (1969)--genre thrillers all. Despite claims to the contrary, The Satan Bug is not a serious film or an A-list production like The Manchurian Candidate ... Read More
Rating: - The Cast reads like a "Who's Who" of 60's Television
OK, you've got George Maharis of "Route 66," Richard Basehart and Richard Bull from "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea," "Honey West's" own Anne Francis, Frank Sutton ("Sgt. Carter" of "Gomer Pyle"), Hari Rhodes of "Daktari", and in if one looks fast, "Star Trek's" James Doohan ("Scotty") in a bit part. Rounding out the actors are such television stalwarts as Henry Beckman, Harold Gould, John Larkin, John Anderson, Simon Oakland (later to be featured in the 70's "Night Stalker"), and Ed Asner in a pre-Lou ... Read More
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