Beginning of the End (1957)

1957 · 73 min · Horror, Science Fiction

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?

Directed by Bert I. Gordon. Starring Peter Graves, Peggie Castle, Morris Ankrum, Than Wyenn and Thomas Browne Henry.

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