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Title: The Deadly Mantis


Date: 1957
Type: Sci-Fi / Horror
Rating: 3 Stars 3/5
Colour: Black and White
Director: Nathan Juran
Producer: Willian Alland

Comment
A giant mantis is released from an arctic iceberg and starts eating people as it migrates south with the military trying different ways of killing it. This is one of the better Universal creature features from the 1950's. Entertaining even if the science may be questionable.

Actors

Craig StevensCraig Stevens
William HopperWilliam Hopper
Alix Talton
Donald Randolph
Pat Conway
Florenz Ames

Oscars

None
Production

Universal