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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like The Satan Bug, it turns a biological emergency into a tense, procedural race against official secrecy, with a large-scale threat contained in a relentlessly tightening situation.
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Why this pick
Its cool, methodical investigation of a lethal unknown has the same mid-century techno-thriller rigor, sterile facilities, and escalating dread over whether containment can hold.
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Why this pick
A hard-edged 1970s suspense film in which a dangerous insider crisis exposes military and political fault lines, sustaining the same distrustful, high-stakes pressure.
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Why this pick
This brisk Cold War chase shares the older thriller's urgency: a former operative must stop a covert national-security catastrophe while navigating compromised institutions.
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Why this pick
Frankenheimer builds similarly muscular, procedural suspense around an imminent mass-casualty attack, emphasizing surveillance, logistics, and the narrowing window to prevent disaster.
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01 / THE STORY
Lee Barrett, a private investigator and former Espionage discharged for his outspoken views, is approached by a man with a tempting offer to join a political organization opposing Biological warfare. His refusal proves the correct response, as the man is an impersonator sent by his former boss, Eric Cavanaugh, to test his loyalty. Barrett is asked by Cavanaugh to investigate the murder of the security chief of Station Three, a top-secret bioweapons laboratory in the desert of southern California—and the disappearance of its director and head scientist, Dr. Baxter. After they arrive at the station and wait for a time lock on the sealed laboratory to open, they are advised by another scientist, Dr. Gregor Hoffman, to seal the laboratory using concrete. Hoffman informs them that there are two lethal bioweapons in the laboratory, a strain of botulism that oxidizes eight hours after its release, and a recently developed virus that he calls the "Satan Bug", which could kill all life on Earth in a matter of months. Determined to discover what happened in the room and taking extreme precautions, Barrett enters to find Dr. Baxter dead, with the vials containing the "Satan Bug" and 1200 grams of botulinus missing.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Gen. Williams
Henchman Donald
Dr. Leonard Michaelson
Tasserly
Guard Lt. Johnson
Henchman Posing as Henry Martin
Desk Guard Mason
Dr. Ostrer
