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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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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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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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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(1954), The Deadly Mantis (1957), 20 Million Miles to Earth, The Giant Claw (both 1957), The Giant Behemoth (1959), Gorgo (1961), and Gamera, the Giant...
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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collection of material previously seen in Deadly 60. 1 – Fastest: (10) Black mamba, (9) Star-nosed mole, (8) Mantis shrimp, (7) Dragonfly nymph Vs. dragonfly...
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2013. The other episodes in the four-disc set include The Slime People (episode #108), Rocket Attack U.S.A. (episode #205), and The Deadly Mantis (episode...
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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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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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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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27 February 2015. "The Deadly Mantis (1957)". Archived from the original on June 9, 2016. Retrieved April 12, 2017. "The Deadly Spawn (1983) - Douglas...
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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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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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inhabited the seas. The evening featured animated shorts The Deadly Mantis (1957), where a giant mantis is freed by nuclear testing, and Monster on the Campus...
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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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of the Amazon (1956) The Mole People (1956) The Creature Walks Among Us (1956) The Deadly Mantis (1957) The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) Psycho (1960)...
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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) 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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