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Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo (1977) [N/A]

Release Date:
December 28, 1977

Original Title:
Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo

Alternate Titles:
Taranteln - Die Tödliche Fracht
Tarantulas, cargo de la mort
毒蜘蛛

Genres:
Action | Adventure | Horror | TV Movie | Thriller

Production Companies:
Alan Landsburg Productions

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 16 

Runtime: 100

Terror has 8 legs.

Overview from TheMovieDB

An airplane carring coffee beans from South America has some unpleasant stowaways: a hoard of tarantulas which overcome the pilots as the airplane is flying over an orange-producing town in California. The airplane crashes, and the unlucky inhabitants of the town release the poisonous spiders into their midst. Once the town's officials discover that the tarantulas are responsible for several deaths, the tarantulas have already descended upon the town's only orange-processing factory. The town's citizens risk their lives to remove the tarantulas from the factory while the poisonous pests are rendered motionless by the transmitted sound of buzzing bees

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Art Direction:
Raymond Beal

Camera Operator:
John C. Flinn III

Casting:
Linda Otto

Costume Design:
Tom Bronson

Director:
Stuart Hagmann

Director of Photography:
Robert L. Morrison

Editor:
Corky Ehlers

First Assistant Director:
F.A. Miller

Hairstylist:
Charlene Johnson

Makeup Artist:
Michael Germain

Original Music Composer:
Mundell Lowe

Producer:
Alan Landsburg
Paul Freeman

Production Manager:
Penny Adams

Second Assistant Director:
Paul Magwood

Set Decoration:
Bill Webb

Special Effects:
Roy L. Downey

Stunt Coordinator:
Fred Carson

Writer:
John Groves
Guerdon Trueblood

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