Double Feature
Them!
Man has split the atom and ushered in a new era. But how could he know he would also create Them? Them! is a landmark movie about giant radiation-mutated ants that gets better with age and boasts remarkable, Academy Award-nominated special effects. Starring James Whitmore, James Arness and Edmund Gwenn, Them! begins in New Mexico with a child wandering in shock, a ransacked general store – and a battered corpse full of enough formic acid to kill 20 men. It ends with an epic struggle in the 700 miles of storm drains under Los Angeles, where the insect hordes are beaten. But they’re not conquered, because they spawned a generation of films about radioactive creatures. Some approximate the terror, but few have equaled the artistry of Them! (Warner Bros)
- Director
- Gordon Douglas
- Writer
- Screenplay by Ted Sherdeman, Story by George Worthing Yates, Adaptation by Russell Hughes
- Starring
- James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness, Onslow Stevens
- Year
- 1954
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 94 minutes
The Black Scorpion
When earthquakes release a swarm of giant scorpions from a subterranean cavern in Mexico, the oversized arachnids go on a voracious rampage, slaughtering everyone in their way before the Mexican army stops them all, except for the biggest, meanest and hungriest of the deadly invertebrates – which heads straight for Mexico City with a taste for humans in this 1950s science fiction classic. (Warner Bros)
- Director
- Edward Ludwig
- Writer
- Screenplay by David Duncan and Robert Blees, Story by Paul Yawitz
- Starring
- Richard Denning, Mara Corday, Carlos Rivas
- Year
- 1957
- Country
- USA/Mexico
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 88 minutes