Beginning of the End [66918] Released: 1957-06-28 Revenue: $0 Budget: $0 Profit: $0 Runtime: 73 mins Popularity: 0.8896 Vote Average: 3.8 Vote Count: 36 Overview: An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a secret government laboratory conducting radiation experiments on vegetables. The lead scientist is eager to help find out what happened. Together they discover that giant grasshoppers are behind the devastation. Worse yet, thousands of them are headed toward Chicago! Can they be stopped... or is this the BEGINNING OF THE END? Cast [35] Peter GravesDr. Ed Wainwright Peggie CastleAudrey Aimes Morris AnkrumGen. John Hanson Than WyennFrank Johnson Thomas Browne HenryCol. Tom Sturgeon Richard BenedictCpl. Mathias James SeayCapt. James Barton John CloseMaj. Everett Don C. HarveyState Police Car 254 Larry J. BlakeRoadblock Sergeant Eilene JanssenWilliam's Date Hyllton SocherFrank, grainary plat Frank WilcoxGen. Short Douglas EvansEditor Norman Taggar Paul GrantWilliam Summerfield, Richard EmoryLieutenant Hank PattersonDave Steve WarrenObservation Post #3 Frank ConnorObservation Post #1 Don EitnerObservation Post #2 Rayford BarnesChuck, granary plato Kirk AlynBomber Pilot Bill BaldwinTV Announcer Frank ChaseHelicopter Pilot Joe CranstonSoldier Patricia DeanRed Cross Representa James DouglasArmy Sentry Paul FreesHelicopter Pilot Lyle LatellPolice Lt. MacKenzie Dennis MoorePolice Dispatcher KL Zon MurrayRoadblock Sentry Con Alan ReynoldsAgricultural Agent Ralph SanfordMan with Red Cross R Bert StevensCol. Hill [bit] Alan WellsHeadquarters Sergean Trailers John Sayles on BEGINNING OF THE END Beginning of the End movie trailer