Beginning of the End
“New thrills! New shocks! New terror!”
1957•NR•1h 13m•4.0•Released
HorrorScience Fiction
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?
Director
Bert I. Gordon
Writer
Lester Gorn, Fred Freiberger
Languages
English
Studio
AB-PT Pictures Corp.
Cast
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
Frank Wilcox
Gen. Short
Douglas Evans
Editor Norman Taggart
Paul Grant
William Summerfield, teen boy
Production
Company
AB-PT Pictures Corp.
Producer
Bert I. Gordon
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