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Phase IV
Synopsis
Saul Bass had a fascinating career as an animator and as designer of title sequences for a number of notable films, including Psycho, Vertigo, Anatomy Of A Murder and Seconds. However, Phase IV was his only credit as director of a feature film. A visually inventive science-fiction story, Phase IV concerns a group of research scientists working in the Arizona desert who find themselves confronted by an Army of super-intelligent mutant ants. The results are more intelligent than the description would lead you to believe, and Nigel Davenport and Michael Murphy turn in good performances as the embattled men of science.~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Full Credits
  • Director:
    Saul Bass,
  • Writer:
    Mayo Simon, Simon Mayo,
  • Producer:
    Paul B. Radin,
  • Cinematographer:
    Dick Bush,
  • Editor:
    Willy Kemplen,
  • Cast:
    Michael Murphy, Nigel Davenport, Alan Gifford, Robert Henderson, Lynne Frederick,
  • Camera Operator:
    Dennis C. Lewiston,
  • Location Manager:
    Ivo Nightingale,
  • Sound Editor:
    John Poyner,
  • Sound Recordist:
    Norman Bolland,
  • Production Manager:
    Eva Monley,
  • Construction Manager:
    Bill Welch,
  • Conductor:
    Brian Gascoigne,
  • Original Music Composer:
    Brian Gascoigne,
  • Assistant Art Director:
    Norman Reynolds,
  • Special Effects:
    John Richardson, Rex Neville,
  • Assistant Director:
    William P. Cartlidge,
  • Production Accountant:
    Ron Phipps,
  • Art Direction:
    John Barry,
  • Continuity:
    Pamela Carlton,
  • Musician:
    David Vorhaus,
  • Additional Music:
    Stomu Yamashta,
  • Additional Photography:
    Ken Middleham,
  • Electrician:
    John Swan,
  • Publicist:
    Alan Arnold,
  • Production Secretary:
    Iris Rose,
  • Sound Mixer:
    Bob Jones,
  • Second Unit Cinematographer:
    Jack Mills,
  • Costume Design:
    Verena Coleman,
  • Still Photographer:
    Keith Hamshere,
  • Hairdresser:
    Betty Glasow,
  • Wardrobe Supervisor:
    Rosemary Burrows,
  • Makeup Artist:
    Freddie Williamson,
  • Title Designer:
    Saul Bass,

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