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It Happened at Lakewood Manor (also known by the titles Ants and Panic at Lakewood Manor) [1] is a 1977 American made-for-television horror film starring Lynda Day George, Suzanne Somers, Myrna Loy, Brian Dennehy and Bernie Casey. It was directed by Robert Scheerer and premiered December 2, 1977, on ABC.
- Horror
Directed by Robert Scheerer. With Robert Foxworth, Lynda Day George, Gerald Gordon, Bernie Casey. An old-fashioned, lakeside hotel targeted for purchase by an unsavory gambling casino promoter and situated next to a construction site, is attacked by an army of poisonous ants.
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- Drama, Horror, Thriller
- Robert Scheerer
- 1977-12-02
May 21, 2023 · Attack, suspence. A.k.a. it happened at Lakewood manor. When a colony of ant is disturbed at a renovation site on a hotel, they start to attack guests and staff. It's soon discovered they are immune to most pesticides and are territorial and highly aggressive.
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It Happened at Lakewood Manor (also known by the titles Ants and Panic at Lakewood Manor) is a 1977 television movie. The cast includes Lynda Day George, Suzanne Somers, Myrna Loy, Brian Dennehy and Bernie Casey.
During construction workings at the old, financially hard-pressed Lakewood Hotel resort, two workers accidentally stumble upon a large swarm of ants in a section closed for entry and find out that these insects are unusually aggressive and that their bite is very dangerous. But before they can get the warning out, they are both accidentally buried alive by one of their co-workers.
Shortly after this incident, unscrupulous real estate magnate Anthony Fleming (Gerald Gordon) and his partner and mistress Gloria (Suzanne Somers) arrive at the hotel, which Fleming wishes to convert into a casino, in order to haggle with the elderly and infirm propietor, Ethel Adams (Myrna Loy), and her daughter Valerie (Lynda Day George). In the meantime, foreman Mike Carr (Robert Foxworth), who is in a relationship with Valerie, and his co-worker and friend Vince (Bernie Casey) find their two missing men, but they die in the hospital due to massive poisoning. Unknown to everyone in the hotel, the ants begin encroaching on the hotel, first attacking a young boy as he looks for a bottle inside a dumpster, then killing one of the hotel's cooks, and finally nearly killing Vince as he and Mike investigate the pit in which their men were buried.
Peggy Kenter (Anita Gillette), a Board of Health inspector and an unfavorite acquaintance of Carr's, decides to quarantine the hotel, thinking a virus is at work. But Mike soon discovers that there is an immense ant's nest in the pit, and concludes that these insects are responsible for the toxic attacks on people. Tom (Bruce French), a BOH researcher, finally discovers that the ants are actually highly poisonous, due to being exposed to and eventually having aggressively adapted to man's indiscriminate use of insecticides. But by that time, the ants have already begun swarming the hotel by the millions, killing Gloria and Peggy's assistant White (Steve Franken) and driving Carr, Valerie, Ethel, Fleming, hotel employee Richard (Barry Van Dyke) and his girlfriend Linda (Karen Lamm) into the upstairs rooms. Vince alerts the authorities, who attempt to contain the ants with a trench - to be first filled with water, then with burning gasoline after Tom stresses the habit of army ants of crossing water streams on bridges built on ant corpses - and rescue the trapped people inside the hotel. Attempts by a fire ladder (during which the rescuee, Linda, nearly falls off), and later by helicopter (as the copter's rotors begin spraying the ants all over the area) are soon deemed to risky, so a set of Coast Guard protection suits is sent for.
Carr, Valerie and Fleming, the only people left in the hotel, are eventually cornered by the ants when through a working phone line Tom gives them the advice not to move, in order to give the ants no reason to attack them. As the ants begin crawling all over them, Fleming eventually snaps and launches himself from the room's balcony into the swimming pool below, in a desperate attempt to escape the ants, but misses and dies in the fall. Shortly afterwards, two suited-up rescuers arrive and take Carr and Valerie to safety. When they are taken away by the ambulance, Tom assures Carr that such a case will not likely be recurring, as the unique environmental conditions at the hotel estate were vital for the existence of the ants' nest.
Directed by Robert Scheerer. They’ll Make Your Nightmares Come True. A lakeside resort comes under attack by a seemingly infinite hoard of flesh-eating ants. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
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- Alan Landsburg Productions
- Robert Scheerer
It Happened at Lakewood Manor is a 1977 American made-for-television horror film starring Lynda Day George, Suzanne Somers, Myrna Loy, Brian Dennehy and Bernie Casey. It was directed by Robert Scheerer and premiered December 2, 1977, on ABC.
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Hilarious trailer for the 1977 TV movie "Ants" or "It Happened at Lakewood Manor" starring Suzanne Somers.
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