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Fer-de-Lance

Fer-de-Lance

19745.21h 40m

Overview

An American submarine leaves Tierra Del Fuego, and one of its crew has secretly brought aboard a container full of poisonous snakes which escape storage and bite key personnel on the submarine, causing an accident that cripples the vehicle so that it drops to the bottom of the Southern Ocean. Worse still, the snakes are still at large on the submarine and complicate the efforts of the crew to escape the sunken vessel.

Directed by Russ Mayberry
Written by Leslie Stevens
Produced by Elaine Michea
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Top Cast

David Janssen

David Janssen

Russ Bogan

Hope Lange

Hope Lange

Elaine Wedell

Ivan Dixon

Ivan Dixon

Joe Voit

Jason Evers

Jason Evers

Commander Kirk

Charles Robinson

Charles Robinson

Lieutenant Nicholson

Ben Piazza

Ben Piazza

Lieutenant Whitehead

G

George Pan Andreas

Torquale

S

Sherry Boucher

Liz McCord

Robert Ito

Robert Ito

Masai Ikeda

W

William Mims

Mayne Bradley

Themes & Keywords

killer snake

About Fer-de-Lance

Fer-de-Lance is a horror, adventure, tv movie film released in 1974 exploring themes of killer snake. Directed by Russ Mayberry, it stars David Janssen, Hope Lange, Ivan Dixon. An American submarine leaves Tierra Del Fuego, and one of its crew has secretly brought aboard a container full of poisonous snakes which escape storage and bite key personnel on the submarine, causing an accident that cripples the vehicle so that it drops to the bottom of the Southern Ocean. Worse still, the snakes are still at large on the submarine and complicate the efforts of the crew to escape the sunken vessel.

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