As a boy, read a novel by this name by Alistair Maclean but this says 'based on the novel by Ian Stuart' (1:28). Wikipedia says the film's based on Mr Maclean's novel.
steve read ,I've been a fan of master story teller Alistair McLean since mid 1960s.. Night Without End ,Fear is the Key, Ice Station Zebra, Where Eagles Dare, Puppet on a Chain, etc. He was an incredible author. And he would usually put a "who done it" twist to his stories.
This entire movie was filmed where i grew up in PS... But it was filmed a few years before I was born... Filmed at the creek in Palm Canyon, the Desert Air Resort Hotel, and the house used was the home of Bing Crosby. The abandoned gas station was in N. Palm Springs and was actually standing til the mid 80s when i was bulldozed to make room for progress.
Great old film, they had dangerous stuff for real in their labs back in the day, but imagine what we all have nowadays in labs all over the world. it's a scary thought,that's why war today is even more frightening who knows what could be released!
Vast stunning gorgeous onlocation color photography throughout this severely underrated film, one of my favorites, deserves cinematic cult status. >>>>>>>> 47:20
One of the two G Men that died from the flask thrown by Lou Grant was the great great great great grandpappy of Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott of the Starship USS Enterprise!
Continuity problem at 38:30, Maharis talks about what happened at the lab, as not good. Anne Francis responds by talking about eating at a Mexican Restaurant. Next scene is at Dana Andrews house and Ann Francis says to Maharis sit down ill get you breakfast. Somebody messed up there on the editing. Nevertheless a cool movie that oozes 60's charm. Great soundtrack, too, especially the jazzy part in the motel when Anne meets George and the theme music.
Thank you I watched it as a little girl on Tv and it was such a scary movie because of it being realistic and like someone said the desert I lived there so it made even scarrier for me.
... Interesting posting. CZcams's auto-recc kicked it up for me. Ebola is on the loose in Africa again, and this full-format, no-ads feature film just ... shows up, 100% copyright-infringement free. Nahhh, I don't feel primed, socially engineered or predictively programmed at all. It *was* a hoot to get to see again all those All-American Lead Sled Land Yacht 1960's cars. I particularly enjoyed that quick shot of one of those Plymouths that looked like the love child of an aircraft carrier and a UFO ;)
Great movie.. But the concept is impossible. A virus or bacteria needs days inside a body to replicate enough to kill someone. Even a nerve gas takes minutes.
Why did the gate guard at Station 3 have to stand in the open for his entire shift in a fucking desert? He'd die of heatstroke. And why not armed with machine gun? And why only one guy? And why was the perimeter fence so near the complex?
I don't know why the G men gave up, they could have blown off their heads before the flasks were out. Failing that, they should have just backed off rather than surrender, its the only other alternative.
Just ask nCov-19 that. It's equivalent (stealth) is sufficient to make it appear as if it is nearly immediate. The above movie was made in my hometown, in Palm Springs. I was a youngster at the time and little did I know as I watched it that it would mean as much as it does now to me. Very fond of Mr. Maharis, Mr. Basehart, Miss Francis, Mr. Asner, Mr. Sutton, Mr. Doohan under Mr. Sturges direction. The top film on the subject of what we are now going through due to the Chinese Communist Party and People's Liberation Army of China against which we should declare formal Act of War and get guns-up/kinetic against them IMMEDIATELY.
Glad I got to see this movie but never was the phrase "the book was better" so true. Not on par with Where Eagles Dare, Bear Island, or The Guns of Navarone books to movies .
Great film BUT shame about this fuzzy, low-resolution picture version here...when the YT mafia removed the blu-ray version up for a few months a while back.
Terrible adaptation of a great book. Of all Alistair McLean’s books adapted to movies, this and The Last Frontier (The Secret Ways) are by far the worst, while Ice station Zebra, Where Eagles Dare and Guns of Navarone are the best.
The scenes and the takes of this movie are incredible awesome. Much better than nowadays movies.
Great cast and Maharis and Basehart are exceptional-"Then we're right back where we started from!" Best last line ever!
Thank you so much, as I was cleaning I found a note to myself to find this movie, Amazon prime 5.99, CZcams free 😇, great quality💖, Thank You
Loaded with talent. A great cast. Can't go wrong with this one.
Always liked this film - very disturbing !! I think the desert landscape also gave the film a feeling of starkness
Steve McQueen's house,Frank Sinatra's compound,this movie is epic shot in Palm springs California, a great film.
Extremely relevant in these COVID times. Alistair Maclean seems to have been prescient!
As a boy, read a novel by this name by Alistair Maclean but this says 'based on the novel by Ian Stuart' (1:28).
Wikipedia says the film's based on Mr Maclean's novel.
Thanks so much for this movie Denny!
i saw this movie after reading the book. Awesome 👍
Great old movie
From india
Based on the novel by Ian Stewart .. better known as Alistair McLean, he of Guns of Navarone fame among others.
That's what brought me here.
steve read didn’t realise he wrote it .. no wonder it was a better than average Hollywood script 👍👍
One silly line in the whole thing ... he s floating at the bottom of the pool , you don’t float at the bottom 🙈
It's a good film and I even have the DVD somewhere, but I do wonder what it would have been like if it had followed the book more closely.
steve read ,I've been a fan of master story teller Alistair McLean since mid 1960s..
Night Without End ,Fear is the Key, Ice Station Zebra, Where Eagles Dare, Puppet on a Chain, etc. He was an incredible author.
And he would usually put a "who done it" twist to his stories.
Good to see Richard Basehart got some shore leave away from the Seaview, to make this movie........:)
This entire movie was filmed where i grew up in PS...
But it was filmed a few years before I was born...
Filmed at the creek in Palm Canyon,
the Desert Air Resort Hotel, and the house used was the home of Bing Crosby.
The abandoned gas station was in N. Palm Springs and was actually standing til the mid 80s when i was bulldozed to make room for progress.
Scary but good film on the horrors around us we don't talk about.
Wild to watch Lou Grant conspiring with Sgt. Carter.
I believe that's what got me to wanting to watch it, Sgt Carter and Lou Grant....oops just gave away my age 😱😬😂
Shaazzam !
The novel was very involved but excellent!
Great old film, they had dangerous stuff for real in their labs back in the day, but imagine what we all have nowadays in labs all over the world. it's a scary thought,that's why war today is even more frightening who knows what could be released!
You mean things like Lyme disease, Covid variants, AIDS and ebola? They do get released. And they are good for profits.
One of the very few movies, that managed to scare me as a kid. Love it
Vast stunning gorgeous onlocation color photography throughout this severely underrated film, one of my favorites,
deserves cinematic cult status.
>>>>>>>> 47:20
Bob Surtees, ASC was the cinematographer.
thank you saw satan bug many years ago when i was in the army
AWESOME film
Major coup uploading this, thank you, Tango.
One of the two G Men that died from the flask thrown by Lou Grant was the great great great great grandpappy of Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott of the Starship USS Enterprise!
A part of our world we don't want to think about.
Basehart is in all of these kinds of stories. Good way to get type-cast, Richie !
R.I.P George Maharis.
The novel was so much more tense and in a British setting, not an American one.
I agree. Having said that I just love the cars and buildings in this version.
I agree. A very chilling tale. Somewhat surprised they haven't made a modern film update of it.
Agree. Read the novel when I was 20 and in the USMC in Vietnam.
Great espionage film ... the pacing and mystery are brilliantly handled...
Continuity problem at 38:30, Maharis talks about what happened at the lab, as not good. Anne Francis responds by talking about eating at a Mexican Restaurant. Next scene is at Dana Andrews house and Ann Francis says to Maharis sit down ill get you breakfast. Somebody messed up there on the editing. Nevertheless a cool movie that oozes 60's charm. Great soundtrack, too, especially the jazzy part in the motel when Anne meets George and the theme music.
Very well done
RIP guys. Thank you
Thank you I watched it as a little girl on Tv and it was such a scary movie because of it being realistic and like someone said the desert I lived there so it made even scarrier for me.
Thanks for Posting!!
that s lee remick doing a cameo in the bar scene
47:32 - 2203 Southridge Drive, Palm Springs, CA 92264 (Steve McQueen's house)
Trippy
... Interesting posting. CZcams's auto-recc kicked it up for me. Ebola is on the loose in Africa again, and this full-format, no-ads feature film just ... shows up, 100% copyright-infringement free. Nahhh, I don't feel primed, socially engineered or predictively programmed at all.
It *was* a hoot to get to see again all those All-American Lead Sled Land Yacht 1960's cars. I particularly enjoyed that quick shot of one of those Plymouths that looked like the love child of an aircraft carrier and a UFO ;)
This is not the way my brothers
Great movie.. But the concept is impossible. A virus or bacteria needs days inside a body to replicate enough to kill someone. Even a nerve gas takes minutes.
Not this one. It goes to eleven.
I kept thinking of "Stingray" rewatching this. George Maharis = Troy Tempest.
Before "The Stand", there WAS "The Satan Bug"!
Why did the gate guard at Station 3 have to stand in the open for his entire shift in a fucking desert? He'd die of heatstroke. And why not armed with machine gun? And why only one guy? And why was the perimeter fence so near the complex?
FICTION
Jesus Loves Yall...
great film, well before Covid
I don't know why the G men gave up, they could have blown off their heads before the flasks were out. Failing that, they should have just backed off rather than surrender, its the only other alternative.
Now compare this one with the Andromeda Strain.....
Just ask nCov-19 that. It's equivalent (stealth) is sufficient to make it appear as if it is nearly immediate. The above movie was made in my hometown, in Palm Springs. I was a youngster at the time and little did I know as I watched it that it would mean as much as it does now to me. Very fond of Mr. Maharis, Mr. Basehart, Miss Francis, Mr. Asner, Mr. Sutton, Mr. Doohan under Mr. Sturges direction. The top film on the subject of what we are now going through due to the Chinese Communist Party and People's Liberation Army of China against which we should declare formal Act of War and get guns-up/kinetic against them IMMEDIATELY.
Oh shut up and watch the bloody film !. No place for your warped politics here..We are all trying to relax and enjoy a film.
Needs a Ryan Reynolds reboot as a comedy
A lab in China developing the Corona virus looks something like this
I there . I can believe it .........
Except that it was actually made and released right here in the CSA... in one of China's "sister cities."
Glad I got to see this movie but never was the phrase "the book was better" so true. Not on par with Where Eagles Dare, Bear Island, or The Guns of Navarone books to movies
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Great film BUT shame about this fuzzy, low-resolution picture version here...when the YT mafia removed the blu-ray version up for a few months a while back.
yes....
Yes...
Yes!
YEEEEEESS!!!!!!🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
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"You cannot know the way if you do not have Ebola"
George maharis
Low-res, and 4:29 was cut out. Find the copy that's 1:54:37 long.
Hmmm. Ripped out of today's headlines 55 years ago.
Bio war at its worst.
how can anyone watch this movie. the picture is so blurry and the sound is of low quality?
2020 Will we survive the Novel CoronaVirus?
Good film all round but would guard dogs really be trained not to bark? What would be the point?
With music by Jerry Goldsmith of planet of the apes fame….
Shame about the missing pixels - there is a better version available on CZcams.
too bad its a bit blurry -
It's a awesome movie but would have been done like the book
So THAT'S where the COVID virus came from. 😐🤔
The Wuhan Bug
1:46:53
resolution is bad
Terrible adaptation of a great book. Of all Alistair McLean’s books adapted to movies, this and The Last Frontier (The Secret Ways) are by far the worst, while Ice station Zebra, Where Eagles Dare and Guns of Navarone are the best.
resolution sucks
Can't walk with Jesus holding hands with the devil. I'm outta here..
Crappy video quality.
Nah