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* AnyoneCanDie: As with other Allen productions, anyone with screentime might drop off at any moment. The dead celebs by the end of the movie are [[spoiler:Henry Fonda, Jose Ferrer, Richard Chamberlain, Chamberlain (who also bites it in ''Film/TheToweringInferno''), Olivia de Havilland, Ben Johnson, Fred [=MacMurray=], Bradford Dillman, and Richard Widmark. Michael Caine and Katharine Ross are the only ones we know that lived for sure, at least as far as the movie goes. Slim Pickens, Lee Grant, and Patty Duke Astin's characters vanish at some point in the movie, and it's never mentioned if they lived or died.]]
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* TheWormGuy: Dr. Crane. He's the world's foremost expert on killer bees, and lives out of his van as he drives across America. Despite this, every (sympathetic) character in the film has heard of him and respects his expertise, and when the President assigns him to dealing with the titular swarm and grants him unlimited in the process, his reaction to all of this is essentially a calm, "I knew this day would come".
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* ChewingTheScenery: Caine as Dr. Crane is does this whenever his character is required to get angry, especially when it's suggested by Gen. Slater to use a weapon that would hurt regular bees as well.
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* KillItWithFire: UsefulNotes/{{Houston}} is eventually set on fire to kill the bees. When that fails, using noises that attract them near oilslicks on fire in the gulf of Mexico does the deed.
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* OhCrap: Paul has this moment when his plan to firebomb the swarm fails and pisses them off.
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** Paul has this moment when his plan to firebomb the swarm fails and pisses them off.
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* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Dr. Krim.]]
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* AnyoneCanDie: As with other Allen productions, anyone with screentime might drop off at any moment. The dead celebs by the end of the movie are [[spoiler:Henry Fonda, Jose Ferrer, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia de Havilland, Ben Johnson, Fred [=MacMurray=], Bradford Dillman, and Richard Widmark. Michael Caine and Katharine Ross are the only ones we know that lived for sure, at least as far as the movie goes. Slim Pickens, Lee Grant, and Patty Duke Astin's characters vanish at some point in the movie, and it's mentioned if they lived or died.]]
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* AndStarring: "and Fred Mac Murray as Clarence... and Henry Fonda"
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* AnyoneCanDie: As with other Allen productions, anyone with screentime might drop off at any moment. The dead celebs by the end of the movie are [[spoiler:Henry Fonda, Jose Ferrer, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia de Havilland, Ben Johnson, Fred Mac Murray, Bradford Dillman, and Richard Widmark.]]
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* AnyoneCanDie: As with other Allen productions, anyone with screentime might drop off at any moment. The dead celebs by the end of the movie are [[spoiler:Henry Fonda, Jose Ferrer, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia de Havilland, Ben Johnson, FredMac Murray, [=MacMurray=], Bradford Dillman, and Richard Widmark.]]
* AnyoneCanDie: As with other Allen productions, anyone with screentime might drop off at any moment. The dead celebs by the end of the movie are [[spoiler:Henry Fonda, Jose Ferrer, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia de Havilland, Ben Johnson, Fred
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* DeadpanSnarker: Dr. Krim has hints of this.
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-->'''Major Baker''': I noticed Dr. Crane seemed uneasy in here.
-->'''Dr. Krim''': I can't imagine why anyone would be uneasy around all these ''dead men''. Can you, Major?
-->(after Crane leaves the missile silo's mortuary)
-->'''Major Baker''': I noticed Dr. Crane seemed uneasy in here.
-->'''Dr. Krim''': I can't imagine why anyone would be uneasy around all these ''dead men''. Can you, Major?
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* {{Narm}}: ''A lot'' of the movie, but most notably the illusions of the giant killer bees and Olivia de Havilland's notorious "scream moan."
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** And Jose Ferrer gets less than three minutes of screentime as a power plant manager, who is both introduced and [[spoiler:swarmed by the bees, destroying his plant somehow and wiping out an entire town in the explosion.]]
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** And Jose Ferrer gets less than three minutes of screentime as a power plant manager, who is both introduced and [[spoiler:swarmed by the bees, destroying his plant somehow and wiping out an entire town in the explosion.]]
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* TheCameo: About half of the cast is just there for a brief scene to keep the movie flowing.
** Lee Grant appears as a reporter in search of good footage of the swarm who disappears without explanation.
** Patty Duke is a pregnant café waitress who gives birth to her child and promptly disappears.
** Slim Pickens is an angry country bumpkin who demands to see the body of his son.
** And Jose Ferrer gets less than three minutes of screentime as a power plant manager, who is both introduced and [[spoiler:swarmed by the bees, destroying his plant somehow and wiping out an entire town in the explosion.]]
** Lee Grant appears as a reporter in search of good footage of the swarm who disappears without explanation.
** Patty Duke is a pregnant café waitress who gives birth to her child and promptly disappears.
** Slim Pickens is an angry country bumpkin who demands to see the body of his son.
** And Jose Ferrer gets less than three minutes of screentime as a power plant manager, who is both introduced and [[spoiler:swarmed by the bees, destroying his plant somehow and wiping out an entire town in the explosion.]]
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* MadeofExplodium: When the bees attack Houston they manage to break into a moving ambulance, which promptly collides with a storefront and then explodes like it was made of nitroglycerine.
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* LargeHam: Michael Caine and Richard Widmark's teeth-gnashing arguments make up a good portion of the movie.
** Henry Fonda's [[spoiler:death scene also counts.]]
** Henry Fonda's [[spoiler:death scene also counts.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The bees are eventually killed by [[ItMakesSenseInContext lighting an oil slick on fire]], after numerous failed attempts. However, a power plant explosion caused by the bees has wiped out a town, toxic pesticides used on Houston will leave it unable to sustain crops for the next ten years, and thousands, maybe more, have died.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The bees are eventually killed by [[ItMakesSenseInContext lighting an oil slick on fire]], after numerous failed attempts. However, a power plant explosion caused by the bees has wiped out a town, toxic pesticides used on Houston will leave it unable to sustain crops for the next ten years, years (also not helped by the massive manmade burning), and thousands, maybe more, have died.]]
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** Dr. Crane has one when the bees, sensing something amiss, ignore Dr. Hubbard's eco-friendly poison pellets.
** A group one by Maj. Baker, Helena, Gen. Slater, and Dr. Crane when the bees prove immune to the pesticides dropped on Houston.
** Dr. Crane has one when the bees, sensing something amiss, ignore Dr. Hubbard's eco-friendly poison pellets.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The bees are eventually killed by [[ItMakesSenseInContext lighting an oil slick on fire]], after numerous failed attempts. However, a power plant explosion caused by the bees has wiped out a town, toxic pesticides used on Houston will leave it unable to sustain crops for the next ten years, and thousands, maybe more, have died.]]
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-->'''Dr. Bradford Crane:''' That's a complicated story. It begins a year ago. But let's skip that.
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* ProfessorGuineaPig: Dr. Andrews tries the antidote to the bee sting on himself after taking their poison. [[spoiler:He fails, and dies like everyone else]].
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* ProfessorGuineaPig: Dr. Andrews Krim tries the antidote to the bee sting on himself after taking their poison. [[spoiler:He fails, and dies like everyone else]].
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* LoveTriangle: One subplot involves two romantic rivals competing over a woman in the small town of Marysville.
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* LoveTriangle: One subplot involves two romantic rivals competing over a woman in the small town of Marysville. [[spoiler:Not that it matters, as both die part-way through the film.]]
* MadeofExplodium: When the bees attack Houston they manage to break into a moving ambulance, which promptly collides with a storefront and then explodes like it was made of nitroglycerine.
* MadeofExplodium: When the bees attack Houston they manage to break into a moving ambulance, which promptly collides with a storefront and then explodes like it was made of nitroglycerine.
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* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Dr. Crane. He repeatedly endangers countless lives because of his refusal to use pesticides to stop the swarm of all-destroying, non-native, bees. We're clearly supposed to agree with him.
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** Well one assumes it killed all the bees in the blast radius. But insects can survive a high roentgen count; any radiation strong enough to kill the bees would also kill us.
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* DestinationDefenestration: When the train from Marysville is crashed by the bees, several passengers is shown crashing through windows.
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* ManOnFire: Several can be seen when the bees make it to Houston, and flamethrowers set everything on fire.
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Texas is besieged by swarms of mutated African killer bees, and the US army with the help of entymologist Dr. Brad Cane (Sir Creator/MichaelCaine) seek a way to stop them.
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Texas is besieged by swarms of [[EverythingsWorseWithBees mutated African killer bees, bees]], and the US army with the help of entymologist Dr. Brad Cane (Sir Creator/MichaelCaine) seek a way to stop them.
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* KillItWithFire: UsefulNotes/{{Houston}} is eventually set on fire to kill the bees. When that fails, using noises that attract them near oilslicks on fire in the Atlantic does the deed.
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''The Swarm'' is a 1978 disaster movie adapted from a novel by Arthur Herzog, directed by Creator/IrwinAllen.
Texas is besieged by swarms of mutated African killer bees, and the US army with the help of entymologist Dr. Brad Cane (Sir Creator/MichaelCaine) seek a way to stop them.
!!This film has the examples of:
* AnyoneCanDie: As with other Allen productions, anyone with screentime might drop off at any moment.
* ArtisticLicenceNuclearPhysics: A horde of killer bees gets into a nuclear power plant. This somehow causes the plant to [[GoingCritical go critical]] and go up in a gigantic explosion within seconds. Without killing the bees.
* ChewingTheScenery: Caine as Dr. Crane is does this whenever his character is required to get angry, especially when it's suggested by Gen. Slater to use a weapon that would hurt regular bees as well.
-->''No! No General!''
* DestinationDefenestration: When the train from Marysville is crashed by the bees, several passengers is shown crashing through windows.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: There's a one scene where an ambulance crashed through a plate glass window, at which point it promptly exploded. Also a train overturns, and not just the engine, but the carriages explode.
* FireBreathingWeapon: When Houston is attacked by bees, soldier with flamethrowers are shown trying to fight them.
* {{Hallucinations}}: People who survived being stung the by the bees are shown hallucinating about giant versions of them.
* ItsALongStory: Dr. Crane handwaves the fact how he got into the complex in the first place with this.
-->'''Dr. Crane:''' That's a complicated story. It begins a year ago. But let's skip that.
* KillItWithFire: UsefulNotes/{{Houston}} is eventually set on fire to kill the bees. When that fails, using noises that attract them near oilslicks on fire in the Atlantic does the deed.
* LoveTriangle: One subplot involves two romantic rivals competing over a woman in the small town of Marysville.
* MolotovCocktail: Paul and his friends try to burn the bees that killed his parents with these. They only manage to piss them off, and attack their hometown which leads to over 200 deaths.
* ProfessorGuineaPig: Dr. Andrews tries the antidote to the bee sting on himself after taking their poison. [[spoiler:He fails, and dies like everyone else]].
* SlowMotion: Used on certain bee swarm attacks.
* TheSwarm: The bees travel in massive swarms.
* VideoPhone: Featured in the military complex where the main characters reside.
''The Swarm'' is a 1978 disaster movie adapted from a novel by Arthur Herzog, directed by Creator/IrwinAllen.
Texas is besieged by swarms of mutated African killer bees, and the US army with the help of entymologist Dr. Brad Cane (Sir Creator/MichaelCaine) seek a way to stop them.
!!This film has the examples of:
* AnyoneCanDie: As with other Allen productions, anyone with screentime might drop off at any moment.
* ArtisticLicenceNuclearPhysics: A horde of killer bees gets into a nuclear power plant. This somehow causes the plant to [[GoingCritical go critical]] and go up in a gigantic explosion within seconds. Without killing the bees.
* ChewingTheScenery: Caine as Dr. Crane is does this whenever his character is required to get angry, especially when it's suggested by Gen. Slater to use a weapon that would hurt regular bees as well.
-->''No! No General!''
* DestinationDefenestration: When the train from Marysville is crashed by the bees, several passengers is shown crashing through windows.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: There's a one scene where an ambulance crashed through a plate glass window, at which point it promptly exploded. Also a train overturns, and not just the engine, but the carriages explode.
* FireBreathingWeapon: When Houston is attacked by bees, soldier with flamethrowers are shown trying to fight them.
* {{Hallucinations}}: People who survived being stung the by the bees are shown hallucinating about giant versions of them.
* ItsALongStory: Dr. Crane handwaves the fact how he got into the complex in the first place with this.
-->'''Dr. Crane:''' That's a complicated story. It begins a year ago. But let's skip that.
* KillItWithFire: UsefulNotes/{{Houston}} is eventually set on fire to kill the bees. When that fails, using noises that attract them near oilslicks on fire in the Atlantic does the deed.
* LoveTriangle: One subplot involves two romantic rivals competing over a woman in the small town of Marysville.
* MolotovCocktail: Paul and his friends try to burn the bees that killed his parents with these. They only manage to piss them off, and attack their hometown which leads to over 200 deaths.
* ProfessorGuineaPig: Dr. Andrews tries the antidote to the bee sting on himself after taking their poison. [[spoiler:He fails, and dies like everyone else]].
* SlowMotion: Used on certain bee swarm attacks.
* TheSwarm: The bees travel in massive swarms.
* VideoPhone: Featured in the military complex where the main characters reside.
