The swarm michael caine role

Sometimes it's not the best idea to take on a movie without reading the script. Michael Caine learned this the hard way when he secured a role in 1978's The Swarm. The actor recently reflected on his long career in a new interview and revealed that he and the rest of the cast of The Swarm were pooped on by bees while filming. In the end, the movie was torn apart by critics, who at the time called it disappointing.

When asked if he could go back in time and tell his younger self not to do a movie, Michael Caine immediately said The Swarm, and admitted that he said yes to the project because of the actors involved. Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, and Jose Ferrer also star in the movie, which is about killer bees. However, things were less than great on the set. Caine explains.

"One day we were all having a conversation with live bees above us, and suddenly we noticed all these little black dots on our shirts. The bees were sh*tting on us. And so the first review was in, but we didn't know it at the time."

The Swarm has been named one of the 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made by Golden Raspberry Award founder John J.B. Wilson. While the movie itself gets defecated on by critics, it has also been called one of the ultimate B Movies about killer bees. As with most things, given enough time, different art can gain a cult audience, which is certainly the case for The Swarm, though many people only watch it because it's so bad.

Elsewhere in the new interview, Michael Caine doesn't have a lot that he regrets, only some pretty good stories about hanging out with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in the 1960s. When asked about drug use, 85-year old Caine admitted to trying marijuana once, and said that he couldn't stop laughing for five hours. That was the only time he felt he needed to experiment. John Wayne once told him to never wear suede shoes due to accidents

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1978 US natural horror film by Irwin Allen

The Swarm is a 1978 American natural horror film directed and produced by Irwin Allen and based on Arthur Herzog's 1974 novel of the same name. It stars an ensemble cast, including Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia de Havilland, Ben Johnson, Lee Grant, José Ferrer, Patty Duke, Slim Pickens, Bradford Dillman, Henry Fonda and Fred MacMurray in his final film role. It follows a scientist and a military task force who try to prevent a large swarm of killer bees from invading Texas.

The film received overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics and was a box-office bomb, although praise was given to the costume design. It has been considered to be one of the worst films ever made.

Plot

In south Texas, a top-security United States Air ForceICBM command bunker is invaded and neutralized by an unknown force. An Air Force unit, led by Major Baker, investigates and comes across an unauthorized scientist at the secured base, Dr. Bradford Crane, who was tracking a large swarm of killer bees when they attacked the Air Force bunker. General Slater orders two helicopters to check the area, whereupon the helicopters are destroyed by the swarm of bees. Crane insists to Slater that the base was attacked by the same African killer bees that destroyed the helicopters. Helena Anderson, one of the base's doctors, supports Crane's story.

Meanwhile, in the nearby countryside, the Durant family is attacked by the swarm of the bees. The mother and father die from the bee stings, but Paul, their son, escapes in their car. Although he is stung, Paul manages to make it into town and crashes into the Marysville town square, where the citizens are preparing for the annual flower festival. The boy is brought into the hands of military personnel, where, due to the aftereffects of the bee sting, he hallucinates a vision of giant bees attacking him.

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