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Empire of the Ants

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Empire of the Ants
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PG,1hr 29min
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1977
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MGM
Synopsis: In the '50s, Bert I. Gordon made a career out of sci-fi movies about gigantic mutated insects (Beginning of the End, Earth vs. the Spider), lizards (King Dinosaur, Serpent Island), and even people (The Amazing Colossal Man), and in 1977, he was still up to his old tricks with this picture, loosely adapted from a story by H.G. Wells. Marilyn Fryser (Joan Collins) is a less than scrupulous businesswoman who is trying to sell shares in a worthless Florida housing development to a group of naive souls. ... Full Synopsis
Critics' Reviews
Bert I. Gordon followed up on the success of Food Of The Gods with this equally goofball monster movie. The script refines the formula of Food Of The Gods, pitting a gaggle of diverse soap-opera stereotype characters against a menace straight out of 1950's nuclear-fear monster mash (in this case, Empire Of The Ants borrows directly from classic Them for its giant mutant ants). The dialogue is corny, ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Marilyn Fryser
Dan Stokely
Joe Morrison
Sheriff Kincade
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