Country: USA
Year: 1974
Duration: 84'
Something strange is going on in Arizona: ants of different species no longer fight each other but rather seem to have become allies to invade and destroy. A remarkable example of paranoid-humanistic science fiction, set in the desert and a scientific laboratory, it is the only film directed by Saul Bass, who designed many opening credits for Hitchcock and Preminger. No exaggerations, played in a “low” key and increasing the tension with a masterly use of documentary shots by the wildlife photographer Ken Middleton.
Biography
film director
Saul Bass
FILMOGRAFIA
The Searching Eye (cm, 1964), From Here to There (cm, 1964), Why Man Creates (cm, doc., 1968), Phase IV (Fase IV: distruzione Terra, 1974), Notes on the Popular Arts (cm, 1978), The Solar Film (cm, 1980), Quest (cm, 1984).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Saul Bass
soggetto/story
da un romanzo di/from a novel by Barry N. Malzberg
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Mayo Simon
fotografia/cinematography
Dick Bush
montaggio/film editing
Willy Kemplen
scenografia/production design
John Barry
musica/music
Brian Gascoigne
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Michael Murphy (James R. Lesko), Nigel Davenport (Dr Ernest D. Hubbs), Lynne Frederick (Kendra Eldridge), Alan Gifford (Mr Eldridge), Helen Horton (Mildred Eldridge)
produttore/producer
Paul B. Radin
produzione/production
Alced Productions, Paramount Pictures
Saul Bass
soggetto/story
da un romanzo di/from a novel by Barry N. Malzberg
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Mayo Simon
fotografia/cinematography
Dick Bush
montaggio/film editing
Willy Kemplen
scenografia/production design
John Barry
musica/music
Brian Gascoigne
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Michael Murphy (James R. Lesko), Nigel Davenport (Dr Ernest D. Hubbs), Lynne Frederick (Kendra Eldridge), Alan Gifford (Mr Eldridge), Helen Horton (Mildred Eldridge)
produttore/producer
Paul B. Radin
produzione/production
Alced Productions, Paramount Pictures
