The Deadly Bees (1966) | Ep.15
This week on Tonight's Second Feature, James & Rhys get a little tipsy and watch The Deadly Bees 1966.
Pop singer Vicki Robbins collapses from exhaustion while shooting the 1960s equivalent of a music video, and her physician prescribes a respite on Seagull Island with colleague and beekeeper Ralph Hargrove. Vicki finds the Hargroves' bitter marital strife oddly relaxing, but when a mysterious swarm of specially-bred attack bees starts killing island residents, Vicki fights for her survival, setting fire to nearly half the structures on the island in her escape.
Starring Suzzanna Leigh as Vicki Robbins, Frank Finlay as H W Manfred, Guy Doleman as Ralph Hargrove and Catherine Finn as Mary Hargrove. The Deadly Bees made little buzz when initially distributed and years later still failed to gain a cult following despite being the first killer bee flick. So here we are today, celebrating its fandom.
References:
https://prettysinister.blogspot.com/2015/08/ffb-taste-for-honey-h-f-heard.html
https://screenrant.com/scariest-horror-films-spiders-bugs/
https://mikestakeonthemovies.com/2018/08/30/the-deadly-bees-1966/
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/478914/index.html
https://bscine.com/bsc-members/?id=250
https://hammerfilms.com/blogs/news/remembering-freddie-francis
https://www.nytimes.com/1967/05/20/archives/the-screendeadly-bees-tops-bill-at-local-theaters.html
https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/wiki/Sting_of_Death
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061557/trivia/?ref_=tt_dyk_trv
https://www.geraldheard.com/
https://www.geraldheard.com/books/2017/12/5/the-deadly-bees
https://apdg.org.au/2022/06/from-daleks-to-outer-space-and-killer-bees
Tonight's Second Feature is Created, Produced & Hosted by James Hewitt, and Rhys Strang.
Movie behind the scenes researched by James Hewitt https://www.instagram.com/look_its_jmes/
Podcast Cover Art by Mihaly Csordas, https://www.instagram.com/sawdustnui/?hl=en
Thumbnails created by Rhys Strang https://www.instagram.com/strangrhys/
