Beginning of the End (Special Edition)
by Bert I. Gordon
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Actor: Morris Ankrum, Peggie Castle, Peter Graves, Than Wyenn, Thomas Browne HenryDirector: Bert I. Gordon
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Unknown
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 73 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-03-25
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Beginning of the End (Special Edition)
Movie Review: One of the funniest MST3K's
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is great and Mike and the bots rip it apart. I think the reason it was discontinued was because it has Joel on the cover, the back, and even the DVD menu screen, when the episode actually has Mike in it. Weird. But it's awesome!
Summary of Beginning of the End (Special Edition)
A small town demolished to the ground. Dozens of innocent people mysteriously missing. A monstrous secret covered up by the military. Lovely reporter Audrey Aimes (Peggy Castle) smells a scoop, and with the aid of Dr. Ed Wainwright (Peter Graves), the truth behind a titanic terror growing in the Illinois heartland is soon uncovered! Department of Agriculture experiments with radiation have created giant, man-eating grasshoppers, and now the oversized horrors are hopping their way to Chicago! Can this menace be stopped before the Windy City becomes another casualty? Or is this the Beginning of the End for mankind? This atomic drive-in favorite from mutant monster expert Bert I. Gordon (Village of the Giants, Earth vs. the Spider) delivers non-stop entertainment packed with creepy-crawly critters. Newly transferred from the original negative, this beautifully restored presentation brings all the big bug action bursting off your television screen like you've never seen it before!Leapin' locusts! It's giant-insect time again, only this time the radiation from an agricultural experiment has turned Chicago into a breeding ground for gargantuan grasshoppers. It's all courtesy of '50s sci-fi schlockmeister Bert I. Gordon of The Amazing Colossal Man fame, and with Peter Graves as the nominal bug-busting hero, it's no wonder the guys at MST3K decided to roast this 1957 turkey on their popular TV show. But which is funnier, the movie itself or the skewering it gets from the snickering silhouettes of Joel, Crow, and Tom Servo? No matter, because you can have it both ways on this dubious DVD--plain or nutty! Some of the MST3K gags are cleverly twisted for trivia buffs (as when a cop approaches a wrecked car and Tom Servo says, "Uh... Miss Mansfield?" or when the sight of falling grasshoppers yields the ad-lib "Carry on our businesssssss..."). There are more hits than misses, and the movie's every bit as awful... er, great... as it sounds! --Jeff Shannon
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