Beginning of the End

Beginning of the End (1957, USA) is an Eco-Terror film directed by Bert I. Gordon.

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• Featured in: It Came From Hollywood

Main Details

• Released on June 28, 1957
• B&W
• Running time: 76 minutes
• Production Co.: AB-PT Pictures Corp.
• Distribution Co.: Republic Pictures
• Directed by Bert I. Gordon
• Written by Fred Freiberger and Lester Gorn
• Starring: Peter Graves, Peggie Castle, Morris Ankrum

Plot Summary

• Audrey Ames, an enterprising journalist, tries to get the scoop on giant grasshoppers accidentally created at the Illinois State experimental farm. She endeavors to save Chicago, despite a military cover-up.

Taglines

• Filmed in New Horrorscope!
• So Big...we had to coin a new word for it...NEWMENDOUS!
• Never Before ...anything to compare it for THRILLS!
• You'll be ROCKED Out of Your Seat...SHOCKED Out of Your Skin!
• New thrills! New shocks! New terror!
• The screen's first full-length science-fiction thriller with real live creatures!