The Deadly Mantis is a 1957 American science fiction monster film produced by William Alland for Universal-International. The film was directed by Nathan...
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Mantises are an order (Mantodea) of insects that contains over 2,400 species in about 460 genera in 33 families. The largest family is the Mantidae ("mantids")...
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Shaolin Mantis (Chinese: 螳螂; Jyutping: tong4 long4; lit. 'praying mantis'), also released as The Deadly Mantis, is a 1978 Shaw Brothers film directed by...
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William Hopper (category People of the Office of Strategic Services)
in The Bad Seed (1956). He starred in the science-fiction films 20 Million Miles to Earth and The Deadly Mantis, released in 1957. In 1956 Hopper guest-starred...
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toured the country in a musical Plain and Fancy. They later appeared in King of Hearts. Stevens had the lead in the sci-fi classic The Deadly Mantis (1957)...
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1950, he appeared in The Desert Hawk. In 1957, he appeared as General Mark Ford in the science fiction classic, The Deadly Mantis. With his resonant voice...
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the template for giant monster and kaiju in films, including: Them! (1954), Godzilla (1954), The Deadly Mantis (1957), 20 Million Miles to Earth, The...
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an uncredited role in The Deadly Mantis (1957). Several other minor roles followed including small roles in Blake Edwards' The Perfect Furlough (1958)...
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Space, Tarantula!, The Deadly Mantis, The Mole People, The Colossus of New York, The Space Children, and the three Creature from the Black Lagoon films...
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Mantis (Chinese: 螳螂拳; pinyin: tánglángquán; lit. 'praying mantis fist') is a style of Chinese martial arts, sometimes called Shandong Praying Mantis after...
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Matinee (1993 film) (category Films about the Cuban Missile Crisis)
disastrous results, and the films Them! (1954); The Beast with a Million Eyes (1955) The Deadly Mantis (1957); The Black Scorpion (1957); The Amazing Colossal...
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Harris The Ford Television Theatre (1957, TV Series) as Lieutenant Young The Silent Service (1957, TV Series) as Lieutenant Jackson The Deadly Mantis (1957)...
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Mantis shrimp are carnivorous marine crustaceans of the order Stomatopoda (from Ancient Greek στόμα (stóma) 'mouth' and ποδός (podós) 'foot'). Stomatopods...
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Incident, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Cha-Cha-Cha Boom!, The Deadly Mantis, Romanoff and Juliet and The Devil's Brigade, among others. From 1953 to 1955, Talton...
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King of the Monsters! (1956), routinely used world disasters as plot elements. This trend would continue with The Deadly Mantis (1957), The Day the Earth...
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from the Black Lagoon (1954) This Island Earth (1955) To Catch a Thief (1955) Tarantula! (1955) The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) The Deadly Mantis (1957)...
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juxtaposed with the familiar, as in The Deadly Mantis, when a giant praying mantis is shown climbing the Washington Monument. Cultural theorist Scott Bukatman...
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part of the box set The Classic Sci-Fi Ultimate Collection Vol. 2, which also includes Dr. Cyclops, The Land Unknown, The Deadly Mantis, and The Leech Woman...
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Human uses of animals (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
including the pioneering 1954 Them!, featuring giant ants mutated by radiation, and the 1957 films The Deadly Mantis and Beginning of the End, this last...
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the screenplay effective, especially the beginning: "As in Deadly Mantis, the complete disappearance of the victims is especially chilling, as is the...
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Chloroharpax (redirect from Nigerian Flower Mantis)
Archived from the original on 2012-05-04. Retrieved 2012-08-12. "Deadly Mantis". Archived from the original on 2012-03-09. Retrieved 2013-05-13. "Data for specimen...
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video". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016. Retrieved 2011-01-06. "Lovely but Deadly (1983) - David Sheldon | Synopsis, Characteristics...
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Dread Central". www.dreadcentral.com. 27 February 2015. "The Deadly Mantis (1957)". Archived from the original on June 9, 2016. Retrieved April 12, 2017. "Dear...
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1993 in film (redirect from 1993 in the cinema)
The year 1993 in film involved many significant films, including the blockbuster hits Jurassic Park, The Fugitive, and The Firm. (For more about films...
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Tarantula! (1955), The Deadly Mantis (1957) and 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957). The Giant Behemoth (1959) was an unacknowledged remake of The Beast from 20...
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Daimajin. Mill Creek Entertainment. 2012. ASIN B008L0YMSW. "The Deadly Mantis (1957)". Archived from the original on June 9, 2016. Retrieved April 12, 2017. Bardini...
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(1957) The Deadly Mantis (1957) Tammy and the Bachelor (1957) Night Passage (1957) Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) The Land Unknown (1957) The Tarnished...
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(1957) The Deadly Mantis (1957) The Giant Claw (1957) Beginning of the End (1957) The Cyclops (1957) From Hell It Came (1957) The Amazing Colossal Man...
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The Blob (1982) The Deadly Mantis (1982) It Came from Outer Space (1982) Frankenstein Meets Wolfman (1981) Creature from the Black Lagoon (1981) The Mummy...
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Handlock The Deadly Mantis a.k.a. Shaolin Mantis Legends of the Bat a.k.a. U.S. title: Bat Island Adventure Cunning Hustler Five Deadly Venoms a.k.a. Five...
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