Beginning of the End (1957)
New thrills! New shocks! New terror!
An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a secret government laboratory conducting radiation experiments on vegetables. The lead scientist is eager to help find out what happened. Together they discover that giant grasshoppers are behind the devastation. Worse yet, thousands of them are headed toward Chicago! Can they be stopped... or is this the BEGINNING OF THE END?
- Date of release
- 1957-06-28
- TMDB
- 4.0 / 10 (41)
- Runtime
- 1h 13m
- Genres
- Horror, Science Fiction
- Director
- Bert I. Gordon
Casting
- Peter Graves — Dr. Ed Wainwright
- Peggie Castle — Audrey Aimes
- Morris Ankrum — Gen. John Hanson
- Than Wyenn — Frank Johnson
- Thomas Browne Henry — Col. Tom Sturgeon
- Richard Benedict — Cpl. Mathias
- James Seay — Capt. James Barton
- John Close — Maj. Everett
- Don C. Harvey — State Police Car 254 Officer
- Larry J. Blake — Roadblock Sergeant
- Eilene Janssen — William's Date
- Hylton Socher — Frank, grainary platoon soldier
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