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Released
1977 · FILM

Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo

Terror has 8 legs.

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Runtime
100 min
AdventureHorrorThrillerTV MovieAction

Synopsis

An airplane carrying coffee beans from South America encounters an unexpected and dangerous situation when a group of tarantulas stow away and overpower the pilots while the plane is flying over an orange-producing town in California. The plane crashes, and the local residents, in their efforts to deal with the aftermath, inadvertently release the venomous spiders into the area. As the town's officials begin to realize that the tarantulas are responsible for multiple deaths, the arachnids have already infiltrated the town's only orange-processing factory. The townspeople attempt to remove the tarantulas from the factory, while the spiders are temporarily immobilized by the sound of buzzing bees that is transmitted to them.

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Principal cast & crew: 18

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Craft leads on file

Edited by Corky EhlersShot by Robert L MorrisonScored by Mundell Lowe

Also known as

  • Taranteln - Sie kommen um zu tötende
  • Tödliche Frachtde
  • Carga mortales
  • Tarantula: Le cargo de la mortfr
  • Tarantulas: il volo della morteit

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