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The Deadly Mantis (1957)
Director: Nathan Juran
Starring: Craig Stevens, Alix Talton, William Hopper, Donald Randolph

Plot:
The US Distant Early Warning System in Alaska puzzles over something that is attacking planes and settlements. A fragment of a claw is found and identified by palaentologist Nedrick Jackson as belonging to a prehistoric giant praying mantis, which he theorizes has been kept in suspended animation in the ice. The giant mantis now makes its way south toward to the USA.

Review:
The Deadly Mantis is a standard variant on the 1950s atomic monster/giant bug film. The Deadly Mantis is predictable in most areas, copying the cliches that had been established with The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) and Them! (1954), the two progenitors of this genre. After a Beast-like discovery of the prehistoric central menace in the Arctic, the film follows fairly much the dramatic structure of Them! – buildings destroyed by an unseen creature, clues found to its biology, ending in a Beast-like climax as it heads south toward American civilization, eventually being brought down at a famous landmark – the Holland Tunnel here, Coney Island in The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. The one distinctive difference between The Deadly Mantis and other monster films of the 1950s is the lack of atomic radiation as explain-all – it being one of the few giant monster/bug films not to invoke such. Certainly it uses the Distant Early Warning system as a setting, which does effectively root the film in Cold War sensibility in all essential regards.

Nathan Juran directed a number of monsters movies in the 50s. His work varied considerably between A– and B-budget extremes – the same year as this, Juran also made the fine alien monster film 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957); the same year as Juran made the all-time Ray Harryhausen stop-motion classic The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), he also made Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. Juran’s other films are:– the horror-adventure film The Black Castle (1952), Ray Harryhausen’s 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957), The Brain from the Planet Arous (1958), Jack the Giant Killer (1962), Harryhausen’s The First Men in the Moon (1964) and The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (1973). - The SF, Horror and Fantasy Film Review

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