Pop singer Vicki Robbins collapses from exhaustion while shooting the 1960s equivalent of a music video, and her physician prescribes a respite on Seagull Island with colleague and beekeeper Ralph Hargrove. When a mysterious swarm of specially-bred attack bees starts killing island residents, Vicki fights for her survival.
Production Details
An Amicus Production
Produced at Twickenham Film Studios
84 Mins
Stills from film
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Hammer Connections
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Hidden | Death | Age | Hammer Productions |
Art Director | Bill Constable | 1 | |||||
Associate Art Director | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/don-mingaye/# | 38 | 1929 | 8 Nov 2017 | 88 | 43 | |
Boom Operator | Ken Nightingall | 37 | 21 Apr 1929 | 19 May 2020 | 91 | 3 | |
Camera Operator | Alan Hall | 38 | 1929 | 2012 | 83 | 1 | |
Conductor / Musical Director | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/philip-martell/# | 59 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 105 | |
Continuity | Pamela Davies | 5 Jan 1986 | 1 | ||||
Director | Freddie Francis | 49 | 22 Dec 1917 | 17 Mar 2007 | 89 | 6 | |
Director of Photography | John Wilcox BSc | 61 | 7 May 1905 | 31 May 1979 | 74 | 7 | |
Focus Puller | Kenneth J Warren | 37 | 25 Sep 1929 | 27 Aug 1973 | 43 | 2 | |
Focus Puller: Second Unit | Geoff Glover | 33 | 1934 | 01.01.1934 | 90 | 3 | |
Hairdresser | Bobbie Smith | 1 | |||||
Make-up Artist | Jill Carpenter | 4 Mar 2015 | 3 | ||||
Music | Wilfred Josephs | 39 | 24 Jul 1927 | 17 Nov 1997 | 70 | 3 | |
Musical Director | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/philip-martell/# | 59 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 105 | |
Producer | Max Rosenberg | 52 | 13 Sep 1914 | 14 Jun 2004 | 89 | 1 | |
Production Buyer | Eric Hillier | 47 | 1920 | 1975 | 55 | 17 | |
Props | Peter Allchorne | 42 | 1925 | 01.01.1925 | 99 | 9 | |
Publicist | Dora Dobson | 49 | 1918 | 30 Dec 2011 | 93 | 1 | |
Screenplay | Robert Bloch | 49 | 5 Apr 1917 | 23 Sep 1994 | 77 | 2 | |
Set Decoration | Andrew Low | 5 | |||||
Sound Recordist | Ken Rawkins | 49 | 1 Jan 1918 | 1971 | 53 | 18 | |
Special Effects | Michael Collins | 2 | |||||
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |
Agent | Maurice Good | 34 | 8 Jun 1932 | 10 May 2013 | 80 | 1 | |
Coroner | James Cossins | 33 | 4 Dec 1933 | 12 Feb 1997 | 63 | 5 | |
David Hawkins | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/michael-ripper/# | 54 | 27 Jan 1913 | 28 Jun 2000 | 87 | 36 | |
Doctor | Frank Forsyth | 61 | 19 Dec 1905 | 2 May 1984 | 78 | 6 | |
Doris Hawkins | Katy Wild | 26 | 23 Apr 1940 | 23.04.1940 | 84 | 1 | |
Dr. George Lang | Michael Gwynn | 50 | 30 Nov 1916 | 29 Jan 1976 | 59 | 4 | |
Harcourt | Tim Barrett | 37 | 31 May 1929 | 20 Aug 1990 | 61 | 1 | |
Inspector | Alister Williamson | 48 | 17 Jun 1918 | 19 May 1999 | 80 | 4 | |
Manager's Secretary | Caron Gardner | 26 | 9 Jan 1941 | 09.01.1941 | 83 | 3 | |
Mary Hargrove | Catherine Finn | 52 | 7 Feb 1915 | 1 Mar 1980 | 65 | 2 | |
Thompson | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/john-harvey/# | 55 | 27 Sep 1911 | 19 Jul 1982 | 70 | 13 | |
Vicki Robbins | Suzanna Leigh | 21 | 26 Jul 1945 | 11 Dec 2017 | 72 | 3 |
Original Poster
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Footnotes
At the start of the film, the group The Birds features guitarist Ronnie Wood – later of The Faces and The Rolling Stones fame. He’s on the far right of the screen.