Beginning of the End(1957)
movie - first aired/released 1957-06-28 - 73 min - audience 4.0
Horror, Science Fiction
Directed by Bert I. Gordon
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?
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Cast
Peter GravesDr. Ed Wainwright
Peggie CastleAudrey Aimes
Morris AnkrumGen. John Hanson
Than WyennFrank Johnson
Thomas Browne HenryCol. Tom Sturgeon
Richard BenedictCpl. Mathias
James SeayCapt. James Barton- John CloseMaj. Everett
Don C. HarveyState Police Car 254 Officer
Larry J. BlakeRoadblock Sergeant
Eilene JanssenWilliam's Date- Hylton SocherFrank, grainary platoon soldier
Frank WilcoxGen. Short
Douglas EvansEditor Norman Taggart- Paul GrantWilliam Summerfield, teen boy
- Richard EmoryLieutenant
Hank PattersonDave- Steve WarrenObservation Post #3 Soldier
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- Frank ConnorObservation Post #1 Soldier
- Don EitnerObservation Post #2 Soldier
Rayford BarnesChuck, granary platoon soldier
Kirk AlynBomber Pilot
Bill BaldwinTV Announcer (uncredited)
Frank ChaseHelicopter Pilot (uncredited)
Joe CranstonSoldier (uncredited)- Patricia DeanRed Cross Representative
James DouglasArmy Sentry (uncredited)
Paul FreesHelicopter Pilot (voice)
Lyle LatellPolice Lt. MacKenzie (uncredited)
Dennis MoorePolice Dispatcher KLP646
Zon MurrayRoadblock Sentry Confiscating Camera- Alan ReynoldsAgricultural Agent
Ralph SanfordMan with Red Cross Representative [extra]- Bert StevensCol. Hill [bit]
- Alan WellsHeadquarters Sergeant
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