Helen Horton

A colonial African country is the backdrop for this Sidney Poitier classic about a man trying to keep his people and the British Colonists from war.

The story concerns two scientists who install themselves in an ant-proof dome full of computer equipment that interprets the ants' communications. When the men spread yellow poison over the area, annihilating millions of ants, the surviving ants find an antidote to the poison and, even stronger, they strike back.