Beginning of the End
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A 1950s atomic-age creature feature that blends Cold War anxieties with B-movie spectacle, following a reporter and scientist racing to stop giant radiation-mutated grasshoppers from destroying Chicago.
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?
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