Bert Remsen, Charles Frank, Charles Siebert

An airplane carring coffee beans from South America has some unpleasant stowaways: a hoard of tarantulas which overcome the pilots as the airplane is flying over an orange-producing town in California...( read more  read more... ). The airplane crashes, and the unlucky inhabitants of the town release the poisonous spiders into their midst. Once the town's officials discover that the tarantulas are responsible for several deaths, the tarantulas have already descended upon the town's only orange-processing factory. The town's citizens risk their lives to remove the tarantulas from the factory while the poisonous pests are rendered motionless by the transmitted sound of buzzing bees.

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Directed by: Stuart Hagmann

Release Date: December 28, 1977

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DVD Release Date: June 27, 2006

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  • May 21, 2009
    I own it, so I might as well see it once.

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