Beginning of the End [66918] Released: 1957-06-28 Revenue: $0 Budget: $0 Profit: $0 Runtime: 73 mins Popularity: 1.0901 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 Wainwrigh Peggie CastleAudrey Aimes Morris AnkrumGen. John Hanson Than WyennFrank Johnson Thomas Browne HenryCol. Tom Sturgeo Richard BenedictCpl. Mathias James SeayCapt. James Bart John CloseMaj. Everett Don C. HarveyState Police Car Larry J. BlakeRoadblock Sergea Eilene JanssenWilliam's Date Hyllton SocherFrank, grainary Frank WilcoxGen. Short Douglas EvansEditor Norman Ta Paul GrantWilliam Summerfi Richard EmoryLieutenant Hank PattersonDave Steve WarrenObservation Post Frank ConnorObservation Post Don EitnerObservation Post Rayford BarnesChuck, granary p Kirk AlynBomber Pilot Bill BaldwinTV Announcer Frank ChaseHelicopter Pilot Joe CranstonSoldier Patricia DeanRed Cross Repres James DouglasArmy Sentry Paul FreesHelicopter Pilot Lyle LatellPolice Lt. MacKe Dennis MoorePolice Dispatche Zon MurrayRoadblock Sentry Alan ReynoldsAgricultural Age Ralph SanfordMan with Red Cro Bert StevensCol. Hill [bit] Alan WellsHeadquarters Ser Trailers John Sayles on BEGINNING OF THE END Beginning of the End movie trailer