Beginning of the End(1957)
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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?
Movie: Beginning of the End
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Dr. Ed Wainwright
Audrey Aimes
Gen. John Hanson
Frank Johnson
Col. Tom Sturgeon
Cpl. Mathias
Capt. James Barton
State Police Car 254 Officer
Roadblock Sergeant
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