Product Details

• Actors: Claude Akins, Charles Frank, Deborah Winters, Bert Remsen, Sandy McPeak
• Directors: Stuart Hagmann
• Writers: Guerdon Trueblood, John Groves
• Producers: Alan Landsburg, Paul Freeman
• Format: NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Star Classics
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00019G3C4
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #387,115 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

A cargo plane inadvertently brings terror to a small town when deadly tarantulas crawl out of its hold. Made for TV.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Sure it's a cheap T.V. movie, but at 10 years old it sacred the ........, April 5, 2007

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John D. Page "movie fan" (usa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo (DVD)

This is yet another of those late night movies that I watched growing up(with every light that I could turned on and feet firmly on the couch) and when I found this one for a dollar I grabed it up. I must say that it's not as good as I thought it was, but I had fun watching it again and yes I kept my feet on the couch.

4.0 out of 5 stars Hairy Eight-legged Thrills & Chills From The 1970's, August 25, 2011

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Isobel Poe "isobelpoe" (Prison of the Pines) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo (DVD)

When I was a kid, all I ever wanted to be was a "spider scientist". Luckily for me, there were tv movies on fairly regularly in the vein of Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo. I remember watching this movie on tv, even the specific scenes with the spiders in the burlap coffee bags (and I always look twice at bags of un-ground coffee too) on the plane and the ending. The combination of television stars, action writing, and hairy-legged spiders actually is quite satisfying for me, even as a grown-up. I love having this dvd as a creepy little reminder of television in the 70s.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Multitude Of Tiny Fangs To Invenomate You..., May 19, 2008

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Bindy Sue Frønkünschtein "bigfootsalienbaby" (under the rubble) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo (DVD)

Our story opens w/ two guys in Ecuador trying to get a cargo-plane full of coffee back to the states. These two would-be coffee bean barons are played by Howard Hesseman (Dr. Johnny Fever from WKRP) and Tom Atkins (The Fog, Halloween 3, Maniac Cop, Night Of The Creeps). They end up smuggling 3 men out of the country in exchange for cash to pay off the Ecuadorian military. What the pair doesn't know is that they've also taken on a host of other tiny, deadly stow-aways! This leads to death and destruction when the venomous beasties bite everyone on board. The plane crashes in the vicinity of a small american town. The "deadly cargo" is unleashed, and panic ensues when the local yay-hoos start biting the dust. Claude Akins (The Curse, "The Night Stalker", Monster In The Closet) is in charge of the fire dept. and Pat Hingle (Commissioner Gordon from Tim Burton's Batman movies) is the town doctor. Together, they must find a way to stop the onslaught of thousands of fuzzy feet! TARANTULAS: THE DEADLY CARGO is another 70s made-for-tv-movie that remains watchable to me, but then I'm a sucker for killer bug movies! While not as good as say, ARACHNOPHOBIA, KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS, CREEPY CRAWLERS, or PHASE 4 (the original 70s version), it is far superior to doglogs like THE SWARM any day! So, if you enjoy bugs that kill and the humans who must survive them, then T:TDC will certainly satisfy...