The Crazies

The military attempts to contain a manmade virus causing death and permanent insanity in those infected, as it overtakes a small Pennsylvania town.

Cast

Lane Carroll

as Judy

Will MacMillan

as David

Harold Wayne Jones

as Clank

Lynn Lowry

as Kathy

Lloyd Hollar

as Col. Peckem

Richard Liberty

as Artie

Richard France

as Dr. Watts

Harry Spillman

as Maj. Ryder

Bill Thunhurst

as Brubaker

Stephen Liska

as Soldier

Reviews

CinemaSerf

I suppose this might resonate more now in the wake of the recent global lockdown, but I'm afraid I found it all rather tame and predictable. A devastating virus is accidentally released in a small Pennsylvania town and the military have to contain it before the gradual, but irreversible, insanity it...

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