DRIVE-IN SATURDAY
In The Swarm, zillions of killer bees try to wipe out the entire state of Texas—a worthy project if I ever heard one. The bees specialize in stinging people to a horrible death and they hail from Africa. That Idi Amin—what a kidder. The Swarm comes to us from the people who brought us The Towering Inferno and then apparently forgot how to make a movie.
Double Feature!
by
Edouard Dauphin
In The Swarm, zillions of killer bees try to wipe out the entire state of Texas—a worthy project if I ever heard one. The bees specialize in stinging people to a horrible death and they hail from Africa. That Idi Amin—what a kidder.
The Swarm comes to us from the people who brought us The Towering Inferno and then apparently forgot how to make a movie. As usual with this kind of film, there's a star-studded cast. Which means we get a look at just about every out-of-work actor in Hollywood.
In the lead, as a bee specialist, is Michael Caine, who has made a whole career out of acting without once opening his mouth. Here he's his usual tight-lipped self, even in a romantic scene opposite Katharine Ross. She plays (are you ready?) an Air Force captain. One look at her in uniform and all I could say was: "Where do I enlist?"
What's a disaster movie without some aging character actors? So we get Richard Widmark as a crusty but likeable general, Henry Fonda as a crusty but likeable scientist, and Olivia de Havilland as a Southern but likeable schoolmarm.