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The Deadly MantisThe Deadly Mantis is a 1957 science fiction film from Universal-International. It was directed by Nathan Juran, produced by William Alland, and the screenplay was written by Martin Berkeley. The cast included Craig Stevens, Alix Talton, William Hopper, and Donald Randolph. It was filmed in black & white and runs for 79 minutes. The film was also known as The Giant Mantis and The Incredible Praying Mantis. Deadly Mantis was another in a series of stock, 1950s monster movies, this time based on flesh-eating, giant, 200-foot-long, prehistoric praying mantis that could both fly and exhale fire. The insectoid has been frozen in ice for a million years, but a sudden geologic shift in Alaska has released it. Now, after somehow surviving being frozen alive, the beast is revived and has begun slaying everything it finds. A US early warning radar station, built to detect incoming Russian missiles, has spotted something odd. The radar station is then destroyed after the occupants hear a loud buzzing sound. Colonel Parkman (Craig Stevens) flies to the site to investigate the subsequent lack of contact, only to find the occupants missing and mysterious skid marks in the ground. He also finds a long claw, which is sent to Washington, D. C. for investigation. Paleontologist Dr. Ned Jackson (William Hopper) examines the claw, and determines it came from an insect. He flies north to investigate, taking along his photographer friend Marge Blaine (Alix Talton). There they have an encounter with the bug, but survive (with Marge providing the requisite screams of abject horror.) The insect then heads southeast to Washington D.C., where it lands on the Washington Monument of all places. After being chased off by fighters it heads up to New York. (Perhaps it sensed that Godzilla had been filming in the neighborhood?) The beast is then destroyed by the Army, after undergoing loud, painful death throes. External links Deadly Mantis, The Deadly Mantis, The
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