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Them! (1954) starring character actor favorites of mine, James Whitmore & Edmund Gwenn. We also have lovely Joan Weldon for the men of taste in the audience & a young James Arness for the ladies who have appreciative taste for a 6'7" giant of a stud-muffin.
Found in New Mexico a pajama clad 7 year old girl wandering alone in the desert. Police Sgt. Ben Peterson (Whitmore) picks her up. Next her parent's car & trailer are discovered. The side of the trailer's broken out. Then Peterson & his partner discover the general store owner is dead in his destroyed business. Again the store wall is torn out. So, F.B.I. Agent Bob Graham (Arness) is called in to help discover what the heck is going on.
The one "animal" print they find is sent to F.B.I. Headquarters. It isn't recognized there. Off it goes to the Agricultural Dept. Doctors Harold & (daughter) Pat Medford (who turn out to be Gwenn & Weldon). They fly to New Mexico obviously carrying more information then they are willing to share at the moment.
Dr. Harold insists on seeing every "scene of the crime". Then he wants to see the little Ellinson girl who remains in a catatonic state. He uses the smell of the chemical ants carry to snap her out of it. Her first words screamed at the top of her lungs? "Them! Them! Them!" over & over again. Now the doctors know what she saw & what happened. Giant mutant ants, created from atomic bomb fallout, are out in the desert hunting humans as food for the queens.
The ants manage to easily travel from New Mexico to Los Angeles & they must be stopped even if it takes an army & many lives to do it! There is so much more to the story & I hope if you haven't seen it you will.
Them! (1954) starring character actor favorites of mine, James Whitmore & Edmund Gwenn. We also have lovely Joan Weldon for the men of taste in the audience & a young James Arness for the ladies who have appreciative taste for a 6'7" giant of a stud-muffin.
Found in New Mexico a pajama clad 7 year old girl wandering alone in the desert. Police Sgt. Ben Peterson (Whitmore) picks her up. Next her parent's car & trailer are discovered. The side of the trailer's broken out. Then Peterson & his partner discover the general store owner is dead in his destroyed business. Again the store wall is torn out. So, F.B.I. Agent Bob Graham (Arness) is called in to help discover what the heck is going on.
The one "animal" print they find is sent to F.B.I. Headquarters. It isn't recognized there. Off it goes to the Agricultural Dept. Doctors Harold & (daughter) Pat Medford (who turn out to be Gwenn & Weldon). They fly to New Mexico obviously carrying more information then they are willing to share at the moment.
Dr. Harold insists on seeing every "scene of the crime". Then he wants to see the little Ellinson girl who remains in a catatonic state. He uses the smell of the chemical ants carry to snap her out of it. Her first words screamed at the top of her lungs? "Them! Them! Them!" over & over again. Now the doctors know what she saw & what happened. Giant mutant ants, created from atomic bomb fallout, are out in the desert hunting humans as food for the queens.
The ants manage to easily travel from New Mexico to Los Angeles & they must be stopped even if it takes an army & many lives to do it! There is so much more to the story & I hope if you haven't seen it you will.