The Deadly Bees

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The Deadly Bees
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Directed by	Freddie Francis
Screenplay by	Robert Bloch Anthony Marriott
Based on	A Taste for Honey by Gerald Heard
Produced by	Max J. Rosenberg Milton Subotsky
Starring	Suzanna Leigh Guy Doleman Frank Finlay
Cinematography	John Wilcox
Edited by	Oswald Hafenrichter
Music by	Wilfred Josephs
Production company	Amicus Productions
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	April 1967 (1967-04)
Running time	83 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The Deadly Bees is a 1967 British horror film based on H. F. Heard's 1941 novel A Taste for Honey.^[1] It was directed by Freddie Francis, and stars Suzanna Leigh, Guy Doleman, and Frank Finlay.^[2] The original screenplay was by Robert Bloch but was rewritten by Anthony Marriott. The film was released theatrically in the United States in 1967 and was featured in a 1998 episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.^[3]

Heard's novel, which was a sort of Sherlock Holmes pastiche, had been previously adapted for television as a 60-minute drama episode of The Elgin Hour: Season 1, Episode 11 under the title "Sting of Death" (22 February 1955), starring Boris Karloff as the detective character from Heard's novel, Mr Mycroft.^[4] According to H. F. Heard's official website, kinescopes of this TV dramatisation survive, and, in 2014, it was made commercially available for home video as one of several features in a DVD, released by Synergy Entertainment, titled Sherlock Holmes: The Archive Collection Vol. 1.^[5][6]