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Beginning of the End is a american film of genre Science fiction directed by Bert I. Gordon released in USA on 28 june 1957 with Peter Graves
Beginning of the End (1957)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 28 june 1957
Length 1h16
Directed by Bert I. Gordon
OriginUSA
Themes Films about animals, Films about music and musicians, Natural horror films, Films about insects, Giant monster films, Musical films, Disaster films
Rating39%
For the 1947 docudrama, see The Beginning or the End
Beginning of the End is a 1957 American science fiction film directed by Bert I. Gordon and starring Peter Graves and Peggie Castle. The film is about an agricultural scientist (Graves) who has successfully grown gigantic vegetables using radiation. Unfortunately, the vegetables are then eaten by locusts (the swarming phase of short-horned grasshoppers), which grow to gigantic size and attack the nearby city of Chicago. The film is generally recognized for its "atrocious" special effects and considered to be one of the most poorly written and acted science fiction motion pictures of the 1950s.
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The film opens with newspaper photojournalist Audrey Aimes (Castle) accidentally stumbling upon a small town in Illinois which has been inexplicably destroyed. All 150 people in the town are missing, and the evidence indicates they are dead. Incredibly, the local fields are also barren, as if a swarm of locusts had eaten all the crops. Aimes suspects that the military is covering something up, and travels to a nearby United States Department of Agriculture experimental farm to learn what creature might have caused the agricultural destruction. She meets Dr. Ed Wainwright (Graves), who is experimenting with radiation as a means of growing gigantic fruits and vegetables to end world hunger. Dr. 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.Actors
Peter Graves
(Dr. Ed Wainwright)
Peggie Castle
(Audrey Aimes)
Morris Ankrum
(Gen. John Hanson)
Richard Benedict
(Cpl. Mathias)
James Seay
(Capt. James Barton)
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