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The Swarm is a 1978 American disaster–horror film directed and produced by Irwin Allen, who was a producer of the previous disaster movies of The Poseidon Adventure, and The Towering Inferno. It was adapted from a novel of the same name by Arthur Herzog. The cast features Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia de Havilland, Ben Johnson, Lee Grant, José Ferrer, Patty Duke, Slim Pickens, Bradford Dillman, Fred MacMurray, and Henry Fonda. In this film, Dr. Bradford Crane and a group of soldiers teams up to stop a huge swarm of killer bees from reaching and destroying their city with venom around the state of Texas. This was MacMurray's final film appearance before his death.

The film was released on December 15, 1978, to positive reviews, and it was a box-office sucess.