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. When a mysterious swarm of specially-bred attack bees starts killing island residents, Vicki fights for her survival.
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Production Details
An Amicus Production
Produced at Twickenham Film Studios
84 Mins
Stills from film
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Hammer Connections
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Hidden | Death | Age | Hammer Productions |
Director | Freddie Francis | 49 | 21 Dec 1917 | 17 Mar 2007 | 89 | 6 | |
Director of Photography | John Wilcox | 61 | 6 May 1905 | 21 May 1979 | 74 | 6 | |
Hairdresser | Bobbie Smith | 1 | |||||
Musical Director | Philip Martell | 59 | 5 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 105 | |
Screenplay | Robert Bloch | 49 | 4 Apr 1917 | 23 Sep 1994 | 77 | 2 | |
Set Decoration | Andrew Low | 4 | |||||
Sound Recordist | Ken Rawkins | 49 | 31 Dec 1917 | 1 Jan 1971 | 53 | 18 | |
Special Effects | Michael Collins | 1 | |||||
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Hidden | Death | Age | Hammer Productions |
Agent | Maurice Good | 34 | 7 Jun 1932 | 10 May 2013 | 80 | 1 | |
Coroner | James Cossins | 33 | 3 Dec 1933 | 12 Feb 1997 | 63 | 5 | |
David Hawkins | Michael Ripper | 54 | 26 Jan 1913 | 28 Jun 2000 | 87 | 36 | |
Doctor | Frank Forsyth | 61 | 9 Dec 1905 | 2 May 1984 | 78 | 3 | |
Doris Hawkins | Katy Wild | 26 | 1 Oct 1940 | 01.10.1940 | 83 | 1 | |
Dr. George Lang | Michael Gwynn | 50 | 29 Nov 1916 | 29 Jan 1976 | 59 | 4 | |
Harcourt | Tim Barrett | 37 | 31 May 1929 | 20 Aug 1990 | 61 | 1 | |
Inspector | Alister Williamson | 48 | 16 Jun 1918 | 19 May 1999 | 80 | 3 | |
Mary Hargrove | Catherine Finn | 52 | 16 Feb 1915 | 1 Mar 1980 | 65 | 1 | |
Thompson | John Harvey | 55 | 28 Sep 1911 | 19 Jul 1982 | 70 | 13 | |
Vicki Robbins | Suzanna Leigh | 21 | 26 Jul 1945 | 11 Dec 2017 | 72 | 3 |