Satan Bug [VHS]

  

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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304411414
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6304411413
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Running Time: 114 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1964



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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - the satan bug
outstanding flick! why in the world is this not available on DVD? just do not understand.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Forgotten Doomsday Thriller
I always enjoyed SATAN BUG. It is well made biological doomsday thriller directed by John Sturges. I always liked George Maharis and his dead pan, no-nonsense style is well suited as the hero and main character of the film. SATAN BUG is a solid, engrossing and suspenseful film. This is good film-making all around right down to the performances, the script, cinematography and Jerry Goldsmith's excellent score. Still waiting for the DVD!


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Honey West Meets Route 66 Meets Voyage/Bottom/Sea Meets MTM Show Meets Gomer Pyle,etc.
This is a great movie, reeks of 60's era themes like spies, intrigue, sabotage, lounge-core look and feel to some of the movie, also has great 60's music soundtrack, and acting-Anne Francis-Honey West, Richard Basehart and Richard Bull-Voyage Bottom oF Sea, George Maharis-Route 66, Ed Asner-MTM Show, the Sgt. from Gomer Pyle,


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Good Flick
Except perhaps for the miracle that the main character has after being exposed to the virus... and doesn't die.... the movie hangs pretty well. It is a SCI FI classic which foreshadows today's terrorist environment.


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Solid mid 60's thriller
The Satan Bug is an uncharacteristic Alistair Maclean movie in that ,unlike his biggest box office pictures, it is not a straightforward slice of heroics but a more nuanced espionage slanted movie with some moral ambivalence to it .It seems Maclean reciognised this too for he authored the book pseudonymously -as Ian Stuart.

The Satan Bug is a deadly virus developed by the US government in a secret research facility in the desert.Flasks housing samples of the virus are stolen and threats issued to unleash the plague on the US .Lee Barrett a government investigator (George Maharis)is called in to lead the investigation .He is aided by Ann(Anne Francis)the daughter of the presiding general in the case (Dana Andrews).Among the suspects is Doctor Hoffman (Richard Basehart)the scientist who has been the prime mover behind the development of the virus

Things move to an airborne climax-a fight on board a helicopter as flasks of the virus roll around loose

The script -by James Clavell and Edward Anhalt is solid and provides meaty roles for the leads and a sound supporting cast which includes Edward Asner and Simon Oakland .Jerry Goldsmith does a great job on the score too

John Sturgess was a great action director but seems a little underpowered here and the movie while solid and very entertaining is a little shy of the absolute top drawer.It is a workmanlike thriller which should please most of its viewers