And You Call Yourself a Scientist! Synopsis: Two teenagers are necking in a car. Ludlow, Illinois, when the girl sees something coming towards them. A passing patrol car sees a wrecked car, but there is no sign of any. A wallet found at the site indicates that the car may have belonged to a resident. Ludlow. One of the policemen goes to check out the address, while the other calls for. The police officer sent to Ludlow reports in a panic: the town has been. Reporter Audrey Aimes (Peggie Castle) is on. Illinois. National Guard. Unable to get any information out of the soldiers, Audrey turns into a. Ludlow. What she sees horrifies her. Audrey drives. into the town of Paxton, where she speaks to Captain Barton (James Seay). Recognising. Audrey from her coverage of the Korean conflict, Barton allows her in on the investigation. Ludlow, on the proviso that she does not release her story without clearance. Barton. and Audrey listen as Colonel Sturgeon (Thomas Browne Henry) interrogates witnesses. Beginning of the End (1957) Directed by Bert I. Written by Fred Freiberger. Tagline: 'New thrills! New terror!' Run Time: 76 min. Beginning of the End is a 1957 American science fiction film directed by Bert I. Gordon and starring Peter Graves and Peggie Castle. The film is about an. Beginning Of The End 1957 - download at 4shared. Beginning Of The End 1957 is hosted at free file sharing service 4shared. Refused permission to enter Ludlow, Audrey phones. Norman Taggart (Paul Grant), asking him to check on a plane that flew over. Ludlow the night before, and also whether there are any atomic instillations in the area. The plane was a commercial. Department of. Agriculture. Audrey drives to the Illinois Experimental Station, where she meets. Ed Wainwright (Peter Graves) and his colleague Frank Johnson (Than Wyenn), a. Frank. is a deaf- mute after an accident with the material. 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The Beginning or the End (1947) is an American docudrama film about the development of the atomic bomb in World War II, directed by Norman Taurog, starring Brian. Sturgeon to let Barton take her through Ludlow, where the two gaze in horror at the. Barton mentions a warehouse that was destroyed under similar circumstances. Audrey goes back to the research station, and asks Ed to take her to. Both Ed and Frank go with her. At the site, Ed explains that it was a storage. Frank points out that the ground is completely barren, the grass eaten down to the. While Audrey and Ed go back to the car for Audrey’s camera, a strange noise. Suddenly, a giant locust looms up, and bears down upon the unfortunate. Frank. Gordon. B- movies’ Mr BIG. ![]() Many a creature was embiggened and/or de- bigulated over the course. Bert’s glorious career – people, spiders, ants, rats; even, perhaps most. Beginning Of The End it’s locusts (aka. Not only did Bert. Texas to California, by the end of the shoot. Frankly, Beginning Of The End. Although it’s only 7. Still, as I hope you’ll. Well, since you can’t guess. I’ll tell you: a couple of teenagers necking in a car. Cue. opening credits. We are immediately reassured about the ultimate fate of mankind, as two. Peter Graves and Morris Ankrum. Although the. drivers of those cars have seen nothing (or at least, not cared enough to stop), the. Champaign County police are more sharp- eyed, and pull up near a wrecked car. At the scene. they find a wallet, the driver’s license inside indicating that the owner lived in. Ludlow. One of the officers is dispatched to the town, from where he soon sends in. In keeping with the film’s gallant, if futile, attempt. Illinois (Ludlow and Paxton are real towns; I wonder how Fred Freiberger and. Lester Gorn came to pick on them?), Audrey is on her way to the Chanute Air Force Base. A roadblock stops her just short. Ludlow. Curious and suspicious, Audrey tries to find out what’s going on, first. National Guardsman barring her way, then producing. Not so easily. thwarted, Audrey finds a side road that offers a view of Ludlow, and is shocked at what. Demanding to know who’s in charge, Audrey learns that the National Guard. Paxton. There, she meets Captain James Barton, who reacts instantly to. Her pro- military credentials thus. Audrey is invited into the Ludlow investigation, on the condition that she. Audrey. accepts without hesitation. The first is an old geezer more. The second is your traditional small- town spinster, who. Either the. experience of collaborating with Bert I. Gordon aged Ms Johnson rather considerably, or. IMDb has made one of its, uh, rare errors. Two interesting things here: Audrey has a car- phone! Boy, you’d think for such a. Anyway, after. breaking the glad tidings that they can’t print her story anyway, Audrey asks about. Ludlow. And so Audrey sets off to do a bit. At the Illinois Experimental Station, Audrey enters a shed, its door. Why would you want to keep your experimental plants in an. This remarkable. vegetation is being tended by a man who takes no notice at all of Audrey’s presence. Ed chuckles over this, describing it. Just a suggestion, bro’ – why don’t you put up some. Or at least shut the door!! Audrey then tries to get things back on topic, telling Ed her theory about. Ludlow, that . In fact, the plants would grow much. But alas, she has only Ludlow on her mind, and excuses herself. Ed watches her go. And Frank goes back to picking snails off the. You know, Mr BIG really dropped the ball with this one. Whatever happened. Beginning Of The End? Back in Paxton, she bails up. Colonel Sturgeon and talks him into allowing her into Ludlow. Nothing daunted, she heads off with Barton, and. Audrey takes no notice, as the devastation she has witnessed has caused. I could use ruins to count. We learn that. she was twenty- five when she went into Seoul after it was bombed (yup, there goes Familiar. Light Car!), and twenty when she went into Berlin and Cologne. Not quite getting the. Barton says cheerfully, . She doesn’t even hear this overture, being too fixated upon Ludlow. Barton. shrugs, accepting his dismissal, and tells her about a warehouse that, a couple of months. At this point in the film, it looks as if we’re headed for a. Audrey caught between Science and The Military; but it never pans. Pity, because frankly, I like Barton a lot better than Ed. Although upon reflection. Audrey: she never lets him drive her. But she lets Ed drive her car! Ed sees her, and that big. Knock it off, will ya? Audrey announces that she wants Ed to do her a favour: to. Ed protests, saying he has. This line works like a charm, as always: Ed’s big dopey grin gets. At this point, Frank the expert lip- reader butts in with. Ed. translates, and to our surprise, given events soon to transpire, Frank wasn’t. Rather, Frank thinks Audrey’s got a good idea, and he wants to. Ed as a child was always . We then learn that, like the entire Illinois National. Guard, Ed is familiar with Audrey’s career, observing that her reports made him. Frank points out some barren ground, and Ed explains. Audrey that the grass has been cropped right to the roots. Audrey decides to take some. Ed go back to her car. At that moment, a weird. As Ed and Audrey give each other puzzled looks, we cut. Frank, who truly has no peripheral vision whatsoever, and doesn’t. Audrey. has been set up as a strong, resourceful, independent woman, but from here on in –. Ed seizes the wheel of her car, in fact . The inference seems to be not just that being helpless. Yecchh!)Back at National Guard HQ, Sturgeon is finding out that. In the middle of. Ed bursts in, announcing that he knows what was: ! Giant. locusts! Ed then draws an analogy. Sturgeon demands to know if he’s saying he bred the. Sturgeon is still sceptical, provoking a. Ed, in which he babbles about the plant food accelerating the. Despite this aural warning, one guardsman. Frank or me, by. failing to see the truck- sized locust standing right beside him! And then the. locusts attack! And we see a great deal of hilariously unconvincing superimposition! The. soldiers fall back, firing all the time – or as well as they can, considering their. One poor SOB has his gun jam three times running – and. We get one of my favourite shots. Kind of. Back at HQ, the chastened Sturgeon rallies his forces. Ed intervenes. insisting that Sturgeon doesn’t have enough men or firepower. The locusts’. screech has convinced him that there are . The. regular army must be called in. Sturgeon scoffs at the notion of needing the army. In. despair, Ed turns to Audrey (who’s just hanging around, doing nothing), and she. Ed then. delivers his most deathless line of dialogue: ? What way would that be? The way. you and Frank left your lab open, and your radioactive plant food lying around? Yeesh! Grimly, Ed voices his opinion that what they are seeing might be the. He decides to go over Sturgeon’s head, and appeal to Washington. Actually, glad. as I am to see him, I have to say that this isn’t one of Morrie’s better. While ordinarily we can rely on him for enthusiastic table- thumping and. Has there ever been footage of a natural disaster in a. General Short, oozing smugness, tells. Ed he has all the faith in the world in the . And we all know what that means. Sure enough, the phone rings, and we. Short’s reaction is swift and to the point: he puts Morrie in charge. Soon we learn that more towns have been destroyed, among them Peoria (thus. Meanwhile, Ed is at his . Ed has already ordered a massive insecticide strike (ah, the. Ed picks up a local newspaper that bears the huge. Ed is aghast, knowing that she was ordered. New York because of the danger. Then begins a ridiculously extended section of stock. Hilariously, we then cut to a soldier on the phone, who. Cut to Ed and his Conical Flasks. An ominous sound is. Cut back to the soldiers, and yup, here come the locusts! Gee, I hope the. army guys haven’t used up all their shells! More stock footage, more guns jamming. Yeah, right.) And I guess they did use up all their. As the soldiers are cut down (in. Take shelter in basements! Just to add insult to injury, we also see the. One of the film’s comic highlights follows, as. Chicago who followed The Authorities’ advice. On the contrary, this Sweet Young Thing has just climbed out of a. This idyll is rudely interrupted when a giant locust appears outside. The locusts, we learn, are huddled in alleys, reacting to the cold of the. Ed dashes Morrie’s faint hopes, telling him they’re still dangerous. The other two are horrified, with Audrey. Audrey then makes her sole contribution to the proceedings; and. Lightbulb Moment. Ed begins to plot a way of using.
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