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I've always been curious as to the story's timeline, as, from the time of the bug's theft from station three on a friday night to the climax (seemingly two days later), nobody seems to get a night's sleep . . . or change their clothes.
I've also never quite figured out just what Anne Francis's relationship with Maharis is. Is she an estranged wife,hence her line, "you need a wife's influence"? (He is set-up as living alone on his sailboat at a marina.) Or, is she a girlfriend who never pried a commitment out of him? You just know that she is "the general's" daughter and she and Maharis seem to have some kind of history.
Nevertheless, I always get sucked in by the great Goldsmith main title over the animated title graphics whose last image is match-dissolved into the opening helicopter shot; Sturges' wonderful sense of composition with wide open spaces; and the terse professionalism of the whole cast. As I've mentioned before, this film really brought Goldsmith to the forefront of film music for me back in '65.
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Sep 7, 2015 - 7:28 AM
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RoryR
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I've never seen SATAN BUG....is it worth buying?
For a movie from 1965, it's a better-than-average thriller, but not the kind of gripping one it should be. It just never builds the kind of tension that something like THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN did, and the movie needed that kind of edge-of-your-seat/holding-your-breath tension, if only for a few minutes. It's also one of those kind of contemporary movies that started dating from the very moment it was released, so that even by the late sixties, it screams mid-sixties, and now can come across like a made-for-TV movie shot in Panavision. Still, it has its worth, and one of its big worths is a Jerry Goldsmith score very worth remembering.
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