The Deadly Mantis
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| Directed by | Nathan H. Juran |
| Produced by | William Alland |
| Written by | William Alland, Martin Berkeley |
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Craig Stevens William Hopper Alix Talton Pat Conway |
| Music by | Irving Gerts, William Lava (both uncredited) |
| Cinematography | Ellis W. Carter |
| Edited by | Chester Schaeffer |
| Distributed by | Universal-International |
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79 min |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Deadly Mantis is a 1957 science-fiction monster film produced by William Alland for Universal-International. It was directed by Nathan Juran from a screenplay by Martin Berkeley, and starred Craig Stevens, William Hopper, Alix Talton, and Pat Conway.
The film was released in 1957 as a double feature with the spy film The Girl in the Kremlin. In February 1997, The Deadly Mantis was featured as an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
In the South Seas, a volcano explodes, eventually causing North Pole icebergs to shift. Below the melting polar ice caps, a 200-foot-long praying mantis, trapped in the ice for millions of years, begins to stir. Soon after, the military personnel at Red Eagle One, a military station in northern Canada that monitors information gathered from the Distant Early Warning Line, realize that the men at one of their outposts are not responding to calls. Commanding officer Col. Joe Parkman flies there to investigate, and finds the post destroyed, its men disappeared and giant slashes left in the snow outside.
When a blip on the outpost's radar screen is soon sighted, Joe sends his pilots out but their intended target disappears. Soon An Air Force plane is attacked by the deadly mantis. Joe searches the wreckage, and this time, in addition to the huge slashes, finds a five-foot-long pointed object in the snow. He takes it to General Mark Ford at the Continental Air Defense (CONAD) in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Ford gathers top scientists, including Professor Anton Gunther, to examine the object, but after they fail to identify it, Gunther recommends calling in Dr. Nedrick Jackson, a paleontologist at the Museum of Natural History.
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