finished watching Beginning of the End 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑
One of the better Bert I. Gordon outings. Once it settles down into action in the last third of the film it gets a lot more enjoyable. The composite shots with the crickets/locusts/grasshoppers climbing the Wrigley Building in Chicago are not to be missed.
Movie
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Beginning of the End
director:
Bert I. Gordon
actor:
Peter Graves
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Peggie Castle
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other title:
Le Début de la fin
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?