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Sep 2023
49m 35s

Empire Of The Ants | Episode 377

Jim Adams
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Jim discusses a 1977 cult classic from Bert I. Gordon, "Empire Of The Ants," starring Joan Collins, Robert Lansing, John David Carson, Albert Salmi, Jacqueline Scott, Pamela Susan Shoop, Robert Pine, Edward Power, Brooke Palance, Tom Fadden, Harry Holcombe and Irene Tedrow. A group of people encounter giant ants while on a tour of a proposed real estate development. But there is more to the story than that. Find out on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

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