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The Deadly Bees (1967) More at IMDbPro »

• Watch for the guitarist for the group The Birds at the beginning of the movie - it's a pre-Faces, pre-Rolling Stones Ron Wood. He's on the far right of the screen.
  
  
• The male leads were written for Christopher Lee and Boris Karloff
  
  
• The exteriors of the Hargrove farm were built entirely on sound stages, complete with fake trees, fences and sheds.
  
  
• The special effects for the bee attack sequences were quite simple. Often footage of swarming bees would be superimposed over footage of the actors and fake plastic bees would be glued to the actors. Some shots of swarming 'bees' was actually footage of coffee grounds, floating and swirling in water tanks, that was superimposed over landscape footage.
  
  
• Widely considered the first killer bee film ever made.
  
  
• For the role of H.W. Manfred, Frank Finlay was made to look older with makeup. His hair was also dyed gray.
  
  
• Director Freddie Francis wasn't completely satisfied with Robert Bloch's first draft of the script, so Francis brought in Anthony Marriott to do some re-writes.
  
  
• Released by Paramount in the US on double feature with The Vulture (1967).
  
  

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