{"id":30319,"date":"2022-08-05T18:18:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T22:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30319"},"modified":"2022-08-05T18:18:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T22:18:58","slug":"the-satan-bug-1965-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30319","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Satan Bug&#8221;\u00a0(1965) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z080522zview_satanbug.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Satan Bug<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(1965)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>John Sturges<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay by: \u00a0<strong>James Clavell <\/strong>and<strong> Edward Anhalt <\/strong>based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3d7cO6X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Satan Bug <\/strong><\/a>novel by <strong>Alistair MacLean<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring:\u00a0 <strong>George Maharis, Richard Basehart, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews, Frank Sutton, Edward Asner, Simon Oakland, John Anderson <\/strong>and <strong>James Hong<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: \u00a0<em>The price for uncovering the secret of the satan bug comes high &#8211; YOUR LIFE!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of spoilers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When a newly developed virus known as <em>The Satan Bug<\/em> is stolen from a research lab, Lee Barrett (Maharis), a former intelligence agent is brought back to track down the thieves before the bug is released to kill everyone in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Satan Bug<\/em> story was ahead of it&#8217;s time.\u00a0 The idea of a lab-created virus that gets loose seems commonplace today, but in 1965, this was first rate science fiction!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The cast consists of several familiar faces from popular television shows of the era.\u00a0 George Maharis was the co-star of <em>Route 66<\/em>.\u00a0 Richard Basehart starred on <em>Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea<\/em>.\u00a0 Anne Francis was the star of <em>Honey West<\/em>.\u00a0 Frank Sutton would soon play Sgt. Carter on <em>Gomer Pyle<\/em>.\u00a0 Ed Asner would go on to play Lou Grant on <em>The Mary Tyler Moore Show<\/em> and <em>Lou Grant<\/em> spin-off series.\u00a0 \u00a0If you&#8217;re a child of the era, it adds a bit of charm to <em>The Satan Bug<\/em>, but if you&#8217;re not of the right age, the cast won&#8217;t give you the same joy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Satan Bug<\/em> has a great plot, but there&#8217;s more talk than action.\u00a0 Then when the action comes, it doesn&#8217;t live up to the expectation.\u00a0 For these reasons <em>The Satan Bug<\/em> earns 2 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z080522zview_satanbug2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Satan Bug\u00a0(1965) Director:\u00a0 John Sturges Screenplay by: \u00a0James Clavell and Edward Anhalt based on The Satan Bug novel by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,17,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30320,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30319\/revisions\/30320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}