Beginning of the End (1957)
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?
- Released
- 1957-06-28
- Genres
- Horror, Science Fiction
- Runtime
- 73 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Bert I. Gordon, Lester Gorn, Fred Freiberger
- TMDB rating
- 4.0/10 from 41 votes
Cast
- Peter Graves as Dr. Ed Wainwright
- Peggie Castle as Audrey Aimes
- Morris Ankrum as Gen. John Hanson
- Than Wyenn as Frank Johnson
- Thomas Browne Henry as Col. Tom Sturgeon
- Richard Benedict as Cpl. Mathias
- James Seay as Capt. James Barton
- John Close as Maj. Everett
- Don C. Harvey as State Police Car 254 Officer
- Larry J. Blake as Roadblock Sergeant
- Eilene Janssen as William's Date
- Hylton Socher as Frank, grainary platoon soldier