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Movie Review: Them! A Science Fiction Classic.
Summary: 5 Stars
Released in 1954 in glorious black and white, this movie was a major success. It is beautifully written and directed. Sometimes it's hard to separate science from fiction giving that radiation played a part in mutating a natural product of the earth known to us as the ant species. But it happened in New Mexico as the story begins. A child wandering alone in the desert carrying her doll is in shock. She has a look of horror in her face that will forever be etched in your mind. And the final scene with the heroic struggle of James Arness (The Thing From Another World) and the Army trying to destroy the insects is epic to say the least. This is the movie that paved the way for so many movies dealing with Atomic Radiation and it's effects on humans and animals past and present. Could it happen? Giving all that I know the question is when.
Brief Summary:
Actors James Arness and Edmund Gwenn.
Academy Nominated Special Effects.
A Landmark film about radiation mutated ants.
Released by Warner Brother Studios.
Directed by Gordon Douglas.
Movie Review: A movie worth the ant-icipation.
Summary: 5 Stars
The formula is Big Bugs, Flame throwers and screaming women. What happened as an aftereffect of the first atomic bombs?
This is a movie about taller-ants.
Fess Parker almost gets cough with his pants down.
This is not a fly-by-night movie. It is an ant-by-night movie.
William Schallert "Colossus - The Forbid Project" ASIN: 6300987531, gets to be the Ambulance Attendant.
Leonard Nimoy is the Telex operator. If this keeps up, he may find himself on a starship, where he can deal with ant-imatter.
James Arness only wants to help Joan Weldon out of a plane and into the ant-ichamber.
I watched this several times with my wife. The ants make a noise similar to a loose fan belt. So every time we pass a car with a loose fan belt she says, "Get the other antenna."
This movie also makes a good background movie. Don't wait for this to go on clear-ants.
Bamboo Saucer [VHS] ~ Lois Nettleton
Movie Review: The killers are on the loose..... Stop Them !
Summary: 5 Stars
"Them" is the perfect example of a great Science-Fiction B-movie ! I saw this film for the first time when I was a kid and since I saw it again and again with always the same pleasure. The story starts like a crime movie. Several people are disappeared. What's going on ? Step by step we are introduced to the incredibly truth.... the terrible killers on the loose are giant ANTS ! There are plenty of thrilling moments, for instance the girl (the great little Sandy Descher) wandering in the desert with her eyes wide open full of terror ! The charming Joan Weldon is perfect in her part as Dr. Medfords daughter, also James Arness ("The Thing") and James Whitmore ("Asphalt jungle"). Don't forget Edmund Gwenn who gives here a great performance as Dr. Medford with some delicious notes of humor. The quality of the DVD is OK. Of course it would have been great to give us a "making of" for this kind of movie or a documentary about big Monsters on the screen ("Tarantula" ; "The deadly mantis"...). Well it will be for the next time !Movie Review: Just a wonderful movie
Summary: 5 Stars
THEM is, in my opinion, a wonderful movie. It was made in the fifties when everyone's mind was on Russia and the cold war, not to mention flying saucers. The paranoia in fifties science fiction movies was thick. This movie made no bones about nuclear testing being the culprit. It seems that man, due to his desire to build and test new weapons, twisted nature to the point where even innocent ants became monsters. Great stuff. James Arness is his usual manly, rugged self in this picture, and James Whitmore was great as the hard-nosed cop. I may be wrong about this, but wasn't the pilot in the asylum a very young Fess Parker?
Oh well, never mind that the ants were a little cheesy looking and the sound they made sounded like a loose fan belt, I loved it! The discovery of the wandering girl and the car and trailer in the isolated desert was just creepy and made the movie that much more fun. So..rent this, buy this, or watch it on TV, just get yourself into this wonderful Si Fi picture, and enjoy!
Movie Review: Simply the best of the genre'
Summary: 5 Stars
There are so many excellant reviews on this movie that I hesitated to add mine, but there are a few interesting side notes:
1. there was absoloutely no sex or inuendo in this movie although there was a mild love interest.
2. believe it or not there was a total of about one minute of actual violence.
3. the monster(s) were on screen for maybe a total of five minutes
Never-the-less, I saw this movie in the theater in 1954 at age 9 and didn't sleep for a week! LOL ;)
Interesting is that this was originally to be a big budget picture.. In color, longer, with more special effects. But, money pressure cut it back to what it is (Probably a better flick). Also interesting is that the monster was nominated for an Academy Award in 1954 but was beaten out by the giant squid in 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea!
It's great... Enjoy! ;)