Beginning of the End (film)
1957 science fiction film directed by Bert I. Gordon
Beginning of the End is a 1957 film about mutated grasshoppers that attack Chicago.
- Directed by Bert I. Gordon. Written by Fred Freiberger.
New thrills! New shocks! New terror! (taglines)
Other edit
- Col. Tom Sturgeon: Where do I get off asking the Regular Army for help with a bunch of oversize grasshoppers?
- Gen. John T. Short: Dr. Wainright, you're a scientist, you know what grasshoppers can do. I'm a soldier, I know what guns can do.
- Dr. Ed Wainwright: You can't drop an atom bomb on Chicago!
Taglines edit
- New thrills! New shocks! New terror!
- Filmed in New Horrorscope!
- So Big...we had to coin a new word for it...NEWMENDOUS!
- The screen's first full-length science-fiction thriller with real live creatures!
About edit
- When we needed grasshoppers, I didn’t want to use the ones we had in California. At that time there had been almost a plague of locusts in Texas and I saw them in the paper. They were perfect….just the kind I wanted. I thought I would contact an entomologist there and have him ship me a bunch. But the state of California said no, you can’t bring them into the state. They were afraid they would mate and create another plague.
- Bert I. Gordon, Interview with Bert I. Gordon (March 17, 2011)
Cast edit
- Peter Graves — Dr. Ed Wainwright
- Peggie Castle — Audrey Aimes
- Morris Ankrum — Gen. John Hanson
- Than Wyenn — Frank Johnson
External links edit
- Beginning of the End quotes at the Internet Movie Database
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