Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo

Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo

100 mins | Action, Thriller, Adventure, Horror, TV Movie | Dec. 28, 1977

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

Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo

100 mins | Action, Thriller, Adventure, Horror, TV Movie | Dec. 28, 1977

Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo
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
IMDb rating 4.7
Producers Alan Landsburg Productions
Original title Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo
Directors Stuart Hagmann
Writers John Groves, Guerdon Trueblood

Cast

Claude Akins

as Bert Springer

Charles Frank

as Joe Harmon

Deborah Winters

as Cindy Beck

Bert Remsen

as Mayor Douglas

Pat Hingle

as Doc Hodgins

Tom Atkins

as Buddy

Howard Hesseman

as Fred

Bill Erwin

as Mr. Schneider

Matthew Labyorteaux

as Matthew

Alex Colon

as Hector

Penelope Windust

as Gloria Beasley

Anita Keith

as Mary

Iris Korn

as Dorothy

Nancy Burnett

as Teacher

Jerome Guardino

as H.L. Williams

Bill Striglos

as Ralph

Steve Bonino

as Spud

John Medici

as Driver

Laird Williamson

as Smitty

Pepe Serna

as Migrant Worker (uncredited)