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Beginning of the End is a 1957 American science fiction film directed by Bert I. Gordon starring Peter Graves, Peggie Castle and Morris Ankrum. 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.
Original Release
06/28/1957
US Release
06/28/1957
Cast
Name | Character |
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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 | Illinois Highway Patrolman / State Police Car 254 Officer |
Larry J. Blake | Illinois Highway Patrolman / Roadblock Sergeant |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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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 | Illinois Highway Patrolman / State Police Car 254 Officer |
Larry J. Blake | Illinois Highway Patrolman / Roadblock Sergeant |
Eilene Janssen | Teenage Girl in Car / William's Date |
Hylton Socher | Frank - Soldier / Frank, grainary platoon soldier |
Frank Wilcox | Gen. John T. Short / Gen. Short |
Douglas Evans | Norman Taggart - News Editor / Editor Norman Taggart |
Paul Grant | Teenage Boy in Car / William Summerfield, teen boy |
Richard Emory | Lieutenant |
Hank Patterson | Dave |
Steve Warren | Soldier at Observation Post #3 / Observation Post #3 Soldier |
Frank Connor | Soldier at Observation Post #1 / Observation Post #1 Soldier |
Don Eitner | Soldier at Observation Post #2 / Observation Post #2 Soldier |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Bert I. Gordon | Producer |