Beginning of the End (1957)
Beginning of the End (1957)

Plot.
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Cast & Crew.

Peter Graves
Dr. Ed Wainwright

Peggie Castle
Audrey Aimes

Morris Ankrum
Gen. John Hanson

Than Wyenn
Frank Johnson

Thomas Browne Henry
Col. Tom Sturgeon

Richard Benedict
Cpl. Mathias

James Seay
Capt. James Barton

John Close
Maj. Everett

Don C. Harvey
State Police Car 254 Officer

Larry J. Blake
Roadblock Sergeant

Eilene Janssen
William's Date

Hyllton Socher
Frank, grainary platoon soldier

Frank Wilcox
Gen. Short

Douglas Evans
Editor Norman Taggart

Paul Grant
William Summerfield, teen boy

Richard Emory
Lieutenant

Hank Patterson
Dave

Steve Warren
Observation Post #3 Soldier

Frank Connor
Observation Post #1 Soldier

Don Eitner
Observation Post #2 Soldier

Rayford Barnes
Chuck, granary platoon soldier

Kirk Alyn
Bomber Pilot

Bill Baldwin
TV Announcer (uncredited)

Frank Chase
Helicopter Pilot (uncredited)

Joe Cranston
Soldier (uncredited)

Patricia Dean
Red Cross Representative

James Douglas
Army Sentry (uncredited)

Paul Frees
Helicopter Pilot (voice)

Lyle Latell
Police Lt. MacKenzie (uncredited)

Dennis Moore
Police Dispatcher KLP646

Zon Murray
Roadblock Sentry Confiscating Camera

Alan Reynolds
Agricultural Agent

Ralph Sanford
Man with Red Cross Representative [extra]

Bert Stevens
Col. Hill [bit]

Alan Wells
Headquarters Sergeant

Bert I. Gordon
Director / Special Effects / Producer

Flora M. Gordon
Special Effects Assistant

Lester Gorn
Screenplay

Walter E. Keller
Art Direction

Fred Freiberger
Screenplay

Jack A. Marta
Director of Photography

Steve Drumm
Makeup Artist

Albert Glasser
Original Music Composer / Music Director

Aaron Stell
Editor

Wilson Shyer
Second Assistant Director

Austin Herrick
Electrician

Morris J. McNaughton
Music Editor

Douglas Stewart
Sound Effects

Richard E. Tyler
Sound Mixer

George Milo
Set Decoration

George J. Eppich
Sound Effects

Melville Shyer
Assistant Director

Nels Mathias
Key Grip

James Harris
Property Master
Media.





Details.
Release DateJune 28, 1957
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 13m
Content RatingNR
Filming LocationsChicago, United States
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
Beginning of the End is a 1957 American science fiction film produced and directed by Bert I. Gordon. It stars Peter Graves, Peggie Castle, and Morris Ankrum. An agricultural scientist, played by Graves, successfully grows gigantic vegetables using radiation. 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. 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".
Beginning of the End is the most popular film at the Insect Fear Film Festival at UIUC, according to the National Wildlife Federation's magazine in 1995.
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