Beginning of the End (film)

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Peter Graves — Dr. Ed Wainwright
• Peggie Castle — Audrey Aimes
• Morris Ankrum — Gen. John Hanson
• Than Wyenn — Frank Johnson

External links

• Beginning of the End quotes at the Internet Movie Database