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Island of the Burning Damned
Why this pick
Another compact British island-set menace, pairing official disbelief with an escalating ecological threat and the same slightly shabby, ominous 1960s atmosphere.
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MOVIE1966 1h 23m GBR
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film opens with two men from an unnamed ministry commenting on a spate of letters from a beekeeper claiming to have developed a strain of killer bees. They dismiss him as a lunatic, though his letters claim he will start killing people if he is not taken seriously.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Catherine Finn
Mary Hargrove
John Harvey
Thompson
Anthony Bailey
Compere
Tim Barrett
Harcourt
Suzanna Leigh
Vicki Robbins
Frank Finlay
H.W. Manfred
Guy Doleman
Ralph Hargrove
Michael Ripper
David Hawkins