Ants! [Blu-ray]

Director: Robert Scheerer Robert Scheerer

Overview

Just prior to her Three's Company superstardom, Suzanne Somers played the lead in the made-for-TV meller It Happened at Lakewood Manor. Boiled down to basics, this is a rehash of Jaws, with ants (!) substituting for sharks (the film's video release title, in fact, was Ants). A summer resort full of special-guest-star tourists is besieged by battalions of killer ants. Robert Foxworth, Myrna Loy, Lynda Day George, Bernie Casey, Barry Van Dyke and Brian Dennehy are among those on the little critters' menu. First telecast December 2, 1977, It Happened at Lakewood Manor was subsequently retitled Panic at Lakewood Manor.

Product Details

Release Date:	07/05/2022
UPC:	0738329259181
Original Release:	1977
Rating:	NR
Source:	Kl Studio Classics
Language:	English
Time:	1:34:00
Sales rank:	21,778

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Robert Foxworth	Mike Carr
Suzanne Somers	Gloria
Lynda Day George	Valerie Adams
Bernie Casey	Vince
Barry Van Dyke	Richard Cyril
Karen Lamm	Linda Howard
Anita Gillette	Peggy Kenter
Moosie Drier	Tommy
Steve Franken	White
Brian Dennehy	Fire Chief
Barbara Brownell	Marjorie
Bruce French	Tom
Stacy Keach Sr.	Doc
James Storm	Actor
Gerald Gordon	Tony Fleming
Myrna Loy	Ethel Adams
Rene Enriquez	Luis
Vincent Cobb	Peter
Ken Richmond	Composer

Technical Credits

Guerdon Trueblood

Robert Scheerer	Director
Peter Nelson	Producer
Guerdon Trueblood	Screenwriter
Alan Landsburg	Executive Producer

Editorial Reviews

This silly but fun made-for-TV movie involves swarms of ants laying waste to a buffet of Love Boat guest-stars at a chi-chi lakeside resort. It seems an overabundance of environmentally unsafe chemicals have goaded the little fellas into staging a massive, organized uprising against bipedal polluters ... granted, a similar animals-vs-man premise was already tackled in the far superior Frogs, but that film didn't offer viewers the singular joy of seeing a pre-Three's Company Suzanne Somers shrieking her head off as stagehands pelt her with what looks like thousands of raisins. Poor acting and badly-mounted suspense make for a premise slightly less horrifying than a plundered picnic basket.

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