Rattlers
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| director = [[John McCauley (director)|John McCauley]]
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| writer = [[Jerry Golding]]<br />[[John McCauley (director)|John McCauley]]
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| released = [[1975 in film|1975]]
| runtime = 82 min.
| country = [[U.S.A.]]
| language = [[English language|English]]
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| imdb_id = 0073609
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'''''Rattlers''''' is a 1975 [[horror film]] starring Sam Chew, Elisabeth Chauvet, Tony Ballen, Dan Priest, Ron Gold, [[Darwin Joston]], and Gary Van Ormand. The film was produced and directed by John McCauley. [[Harry Novak]] was the executive producer.
==Plot==
When two young boys are savagely attacked and killed by a legion of [[rattlesnake]]s in a small California desert town, the local sheriff (Tony Ballen) calls upon [[herpetologist]] Dr. Tom Parkinson (Sam Chew), a [[Los Angeles]] college professor, to discover why the snakes are displaying abnormal aggression and [[swarming]] behavior. The sheriff teams Parkinson with war photographer Ann Bradley (Elisabeth Chauvet).
As more people in the desert town are killed by the vicious rattlesnakes, Parkinson's and Bradley's investigation leads them to a nearby army base, where the commanding officer, Colonel Stroud (Dan Priest), seems strangely reluctant to help them. Parkinson and Bradley are, however, assisted by the base's chief medical officer, Captain Delaney (Ron Gold).
Shortly afterward, Palmer ([[Darwin Joston]]) and Woodley (Gary Van Ormand), two soldiers on night patrol, stop to change a flat tire on their [[Bantam GP|jeep]] and are killed by a horde of rattlesnakes. Delaney then summons Parkinson and Bradley back to the base, without Stroud's knowledge, so they can investigate the soldiers' strange deaths.
Eventually, Parkinson discovers that the colonel ordered, and then covered up, the illegal disposal of an experimental nerve gas called "CT3" in one of the local desert caves. The exposure of the snakes to the nerve gas had made them unusually aggressive. When Delaney confronts Stroud and threatens to expose his crime, Stroud kills him. Stroud then engages the local sheriff's department in a gun battle and is killed.
==External links==
* {{imdb title|id=0073609|title=Rattlers}}
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[[Category:1975 films]]
[[Category:American films]]
[[Category:English-language films]]
[[Category:Natural horror films]]