Thursday, 24 May 2018

Them! (1954)****.

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During an atomic test, giant monsters wreak havoc across New Mexico. Brid. Gen. Robert O'Brien, (Onslow Stevens); and Maj. Kibbee, (Sean McCory), struggle to get rid of the menace, leaving Doctor Harold Medford, (Edmund Gwenn), and his wife, Doctor Patricia Medford, (Joan Weldon), to help them find out how to get rid of creatures.
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The science fiction classic "Them!", (1954), is about America being scared of the Atomic Age, as the creatures depicted in the movie destroy America, (New Mexico), in the mid-1950's.
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The rest of the cast include: Robert Graham, (James Arness)-from "The Thing (From Another World)", 1951; Police Sgt. Ben Peterson, (James Whitmore); Alan Crotty, (Fess Parker); and a scared girl, (Sandy Descher).
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The mutant bugs from Gordon Douglas's "Them!", (1954).
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Directed by Gordon Douglas, and written by Ted Sherdeman and Russell Hughes, the movie remains a great science fiction movie.
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