Giant locusts are attacking Chicago!

That’s the plot of this 1957 film from director Bert I. Gordon.  Chicago-haters will love this film, especially the scene where General Morris Ankrum announces that he has no  choice but to nuke the entire city.  If you don’t hate Chicago, you can still enjoy watching Peter Graves somehow retaining his dignity while dealing with the threat of giant locusts.

For the record, I’m enough of a country girl that I fully understand just destructive locusts can be.  That said, when it comes to their appearance, they’re not the most intimidating creatures out there.  The worst that can be said about them is that they look like really ugly grasshoppers.  A giant grasshopper still looks like a giant grasshopper.  And, needless to say, locusts do not attack humans.

(I’m also enough of a Southern girl that I can remember collecting the locust exo-skeletons that would always show up in the fall and winter.)

Here is the ludicrous and entertaining Beginning of the End!