Peter Graves (way before "Mission:Impossible") doing battle with giant mutated grasshoppers! [5][43][44] It played as part of a double feature with The Unearthly (a film based loosely on 1932's Island of Lost Souls and 1956's The Black Sleep), another AB-PT production.
The other tagline used was "The screen's first full-length science-fiction feature with real-live creatures! Also, the infamous "suburbs of Paxton."
2 offers from $14.78. [20] The studio also said that Pat Dean, its "sexboat" discovery (and a former dancer at the El Rancho Vegas hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada) would also appear in the picture. "[57] Leonard Maltin summed up his review in one word: "awful". James Seay.
[6], Beginning of the End went into production in 1956, the first of the "boom years" for science fiction films in the United States. A monstrous secret covered up by the military. Frank Johnson. And at no time are there more than a half-dozen of the things shown at once, although the script avers that there are thousands about and more coming. Please try again. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Cpl. If the story is good, I'm happy. Or is this the Beginning of the End for mankind?
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Beginning of the End Mike Nelson. And back then - you screamed your head off. Thomas Browne Henry. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. And I like this giant creature movie. The lighthouse keeper, newly widowed and estranged from the town folk, has been ... See full summary », Audrey Ames, an enterprising journalist, tries to get the scoop on giant grasshoppers accidentally created at the Illinois State experimental farm. [56] The reviewer felt the screenplay was "ludicrous" and cliché-ridden. (uncredited), Extra beside Red Cross Representative [10] However, the final screenplay is credited to Fred Frieberger (a veteran writer of B movies) and Lester Gorn. Wainwright reports that there have been a number of mysterious incidents nearby, and that locusts have eaten all the radioactive wheat stored in a nearby grain silo. [15], Beginning of the End premiered in Chicago on June 16, 1957. This is confirmed by at least modern source as well.
", The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth, Vieira, "Don't Step on It! [24] Gordon had already used Glasser to score his 1957 monster movie The Cyclops. [12][13] Glasser worked in the same office building where Gordon had his offices, and Gordon admired his score for the 1956 war film Huk! All 150 people in the town are missing, and the evidence indicates they are dead. 4.8 out of 5 stars 925. It's a beautiful thing and hard to find anywhere. ", Scheuer, Philip K. "John Beal Back in Film. Unable to add item to List.
[12][13] Marta had shot close to 150 B movies for Republic Pictures by this time,[23] which is probably why he was hired (given AB-PT's relationship with that studio and Marta's fast-and-quick shooting style). Scientists become trapped on a shrinking island with intelligent, murderous giant crabs. "Paramount, A.BC. And that is the charm. Beginning of the End.
"[33], Beginning of the End has become somewhat infamous because of its notoriously poor production values and unrealistic plot. See: Hardy and Gifford, "ABPT Plans Shift to 'Quality' Prod's; $1,000,000 Budgets,", Tinee, "2 Local Boys Now in Films Revist City,", Parla, and Mitchell, "Talking Eye To Eye With Duncan 'Dean' Parkin (1993 Interview),", Tinee, "Full Summer of Film Fare on Its Way,", Tinee, "'Beginning of the End' Is Both Wild and Weird,", The studio owned about 500 theaters at the time. Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2016. Check out the movies and shows we're excited about this month, including "Star Trek: Discovery" and After We Collided. Albert Glasser composed the musical score. The film opens with newspaper photojournalist Audrey Aimes (Peggie Castle) accidentally stumbling upon a small town (Ludlow, Illinois) which has been inexplicably destroyed. [15][39][40] When the monsters are supposed to be wounded or killed by gunfire, Gordon merely tipped the photograph and the grasshoppers slid down it. New shocks! [10] The company said it had hired 34-year-old Bert I. Gordon to direct and produce. ", Tinee, Mae. With Trace Beaulieu, Michael J. Nelson, Jim Mallon, Kevin Murphy. [56] The magazine believed Peter Graves had turned in a decent performance, but described Peggie Castle's performance as "unconvincing" and Morris Ankrum's as "artificial". "[46] This tagline is depicted on the film poster (see the infobox, above). Audrey Ames, an enterprising journalist, tries to get the scoop on giant grasshoppers accidentally created at the Illinois State experimental farm. 4.0 out of 5 stars 41. This aspect is like something out of Lovecraft, although it is not exploited as well as it could have been. DVD. [19], Casting was complete within two weeks of the start of production. Mathias. There, the cold water will incapacitate them, and they will drown. Primitive, sure, but effective nonetheless. Can this menace be stopped before the Windy City becomes another casualty? The monster, which looks like a snarling "Creature from the Black Lagoon," invades a sleepy seaside town. Incredibly, the local fields are also barren, as if a swarm of locusts had eaten all the crops. This page was last edited on 24 September 2020, at 19:42.
Was this review helpful to you? [14][15][16], The story was already set, according to press reports,[10] with Variety claiming that Bert I. Gordon had already completed the script. 4 of 6 people found this review helpful.
In that episode, Homer Simpson grows giant vegetables using radioactive materials, and automatically assumes that any animal eating the food will become monstrous.
Turkey or treasure, there will always be a special place for this film in my heart, as it was the first sci-fi I was able to sit through without getting scared. [19] For example, in its first week playing in San Francisco, California, it made $16,000—just behind the top-ranked movie of the week for the area, the reissue of Bambi (which grossed $18,500). Unfortunately, the vegetables are eaten by locusts (the swarming phase of short-horned grasshoppers), which quickly grow to a gigantic size and attack the nearby city of Chicago. While the special effects are not totally convincing, there is a good story which allows me to forgive them. [2][48][53][54][55] However, Beginning of the End had very little of the metaphorical creativity of films such as Godzilla or Them! [19][35][36][37][38] But when he attempted to bring them into California for filming, state agricultural officials required that every single one of the animals be inspected and sexed. The giant bugs begin chowing down on (postcards of) the Illinois countryside and work their way toward Chicago while Dr. Wainwright tries to figure out how to stop them. [10][11][12][13] Gordon had gotten his start as a supervising producer for televised commercials and network TV shows, had produced his first feature film (Serpent Island) in 1954, and directed his first feature film (King Dinosaur) in 1955.
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[19] The week Beginning of the End opened, Gordon began shooting his next feature film, The Amazing Colossal Man, for AIP. "2 Local Boys Now in Films Revist City.". Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2002.
Written by [15][19] Gordon purchased 200 non-hopping, non-flying live grasshoppers in Texas (which had recently seen an outbreak of a species of exceptionally large locusts) for the film. [10][17] Three days later, AB-PT announced that Don C. Harvey, Morris Ankrum, Pierre Watkin, Ralph Sanford, and Richard Benedict had also been cast.
Beginning of the End was financed by American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres (AB-PT). ", Tinee, Mae. They might have meant it was "the suburb of Paxton", but even this would be wrong because Paxton is a standalone town. New Shocks! "The film obviously was made on a shoestring budget, and the people in it are no more than props for the magnified insects. [5][6][13][42][45] As planned, it was distributed by Republic Pictures. "Don't Step on It! He concludes that he might be able to lure the locusts into Lake Michigan. At that time there had been almost a plague of locusts in Texas and I saw them in the paper. When a small Illinois town vanishes off the map in a single night, Intrepid Reporter Audrey Aimes (Peggie Castle) swoops in smelling a scoop. But the monsters quickly invade Chicago, and begin to feast on human flesh as well as several buildings.
Yes, I like all these old, cheesy sci-fi movies from the 1950's. Soon Chicago is in danger from film of grasshoppers with army men running around in front of it. Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume II Joel Hodgson. Rest of cast listed alphabetically: Richard Abbott ... Danish Underground Leader (uncredited) Philip Ahlm ... Armed Guard (uncredited) John Albright ... Quaker Scientist (uncredited) She endeavors to save Chicago, despite a military cover-up. Adventure. The lure itself will be a decoy locust mating call, generated electronically with test-tone oscillators. [12][13] The screen story bears a striking resemblance to the 1904 H. G. Wells novel The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth[19] (Gordon would adapt this novel twice more, once for Embassy Pictures in 1965's Village of the Giants and again for American International Pictures in 1976's The Food of the Gods). The Bridge on the River Kwai, British American war film (1957) directed by David Lean that won seven Academy ... At the end of the day, the officers are imprisoned, and Nicholson is thrown into “the oven”—a small box made of corrugated metal. A series of decapitations on a Swiss mountainside appear to be connected to a mysterious radioactive cloud. There's a problem loading this menu right now. [19][37][38] He later described his efforts:[36], Gordon kept the grasshoppers in a box for only a few days, but during that time the grasshoppers devoured one another and only 12 were left when Gordon finally got around to shooting them. [19] But his most important effort was one he had used in King Dinosaur: placing live creatures on still photographs, and blowing air at them to encourage the creatures to move. 12 Movie Maneater DVD Set: CROC / SEA BEAST / SHARK SWARM / SWAMP DEVIL / EYE OF THE BEAST / BLACK SWARM / WYVERN / SAND SERPENTS / CARNY / MANEATER / IN THE SPIDER'S WEB / BLOOD MONKEY, The Day the Earth Caught Fire (Special Edition), Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The Wild World of Batwoman, Red Zone Cuba (Mystery Science Theater 3000), Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Singles Collection. "[40] Another modern reviewer found the screenplay effective, especially the beginning: "As in Deadly Mantis, the complete disappearance of the victims is especially chilling, as is the notion of 150 men, women and children being devoured overnight while in their beds. Somehow I missed this one back in the day. Killer Bugs, Babes, and Beasts in 1950s Drive-in Cinema,", Vieira, Mark A.
"[12] There is some discrepancy as to how long the film ran. ", Pryor, Thomas M. "6 Films Planned by Am-Par Corp.", "Reissued 'Bambi' Out-Pulls New Product On Frisco 1st-Run Front.
DVD. But the state of California said no, you can’t bring them into the state. Beginning of the End is generally known for its "atrocious" special effects, "and yet," writes reviewer Bill Warren, "there is something almost compellingly watchable about this goofy little movie".[2].
Certificate: Passed Peggy Castle was also on Warner Brothers TV western, Lawman, and is a personal favorite.
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