TARANTULAS: THE DEADLY CARGO - BLU-KL STUDIO CLASSICS

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• Release Year: 1977
• Genre: Horror, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: Nominated for two Emmy® Awards, 'Tarantulas' is a white-knuckle thrill-ride, full of fearsome furry arachnids and hair-raising horror. Fred (Howard Hesseman) and Buddy (Tom Atkins) fly down to South America to pick up a cargo of premium coffee beans, which they plan to turn into a huge profit back home in San Francisco. But unbeknownst to the two men, their plane is carrying some deadly stowaways in the form of a colony of deadly, gigantic tarantulas. Flying over a small California town, the pilot is attacked and killed by the tarantulas and the plane goes down in a fiery crash. The tarantulas flee the crash site unnoticed and begin to reek havoc on the townspeople. Creepy, hairy spiders are taking over, and they have infested the town's orange plantation. Risking their lives to stave off a national epidemic, a group of renegade townspeople desperately attempt to stop the venomous vermin before it's too late.
• Cast: Claude Akins, Charles Frank, Deborah Winters, Bert Remsen, Sandy McPeak, Pat Hingle, Tom Atkins, Howard Hesseman, John Harkins, Charles Siebert, Penelope Windust, Edwin Owens, Alex Colon, Lanny Horn, Jerome Guardino, Jorge Cervera Jr., Noelle North, Bill Striglos, Steve Bonino, Nancy Burnett, Bill Erwin, Anita Keith, Iris Korn, Matthew Labyorteaux, John Medici, Ruben Moreno, Joseph Reale, Laird Williamson, Pepe Serna, Stuart Hagmann, John Groves, Guerdon Trueblood
• Director: Stuart Hagmann
• Runtime: 1:36
• Company: Fremantle Media
• Media Format: Movie