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Them! (1954)
Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1954
Running Times: 94m
Length:
Format:
Colour Format: black and white
Ratio:
Sound: mono
DIRECTION
Directed by: Gordon Douglas
CREW
 PRODUCTION
Copyright: MCMLIV [1954] by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
Production Companies: Warner Bros. Pictures presents A Warner Bros.-First
National picture
Produced by: David Weisbart
SCRIPT
Screen Play by: Ted Sherdeman
Adaptation by: Russell Hughes
Story by: George Worthing Yates
DIRECTION
Assistant Director: Russ Saunders
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Sid Hickox
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Thomas Reilly
MUSIC
Music by: Bronislau Kaper
Musical Direction by: Ray Heindorf
Orchestrations by: Robert Franklyn
SOUND
Sound by: Francis J. Scheid
RCA Sound System
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Wardrobe by: Moss Mabry
Makeup Artist: Gordon Bau
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Giant Ant Models: Dick Smith (uncredited)
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Stanley Fleischer
Set Decorator: G.W Berntsen
CAST
Starring
James Whitmore (Sergeant Ben Peterson)
Edmund Gwenn (Dr Harold Medford)
Joan Weldon (Dr Patricia "Pat" Medford)
James Arness (Robert Graham)
with
Onslow Stevens (Brigadier General O'Brien)
Sean McClory (Major Kibbee)
Chris Drake (Trooper Ed Blackburn)
Sandy Descher (the Ellison girl)
Mary Alan Hokanson (Mrs Thomas Lodge)
Don Shelton (Trooper Captain Fred Edwards)
Fess Parker (Alan Crotty)
Olin Howlin (Jensen)
UNCREDITED CAST
Richard Bellis (Mike)
John Beradino (LAPD Patrolman Ryan)
Robert Berger (Sutton)
Oscar Blanke (inmate)
Willis Bouchey, Alexander Campbell (officials)
Richard Boyer (uncredited)
Waldron Boyle (doctor)
Marshall Bradford (Crotty's psychiatrist)
Richard Deacon (reporter at LA news conference)
Eddie Dew (officer)
Lawrence Dobkin (Los Angeles city engineer)
Ann Doran (child psychiatrist)
Wally Duffy (airman)
Cliff Ferre (Cliff the police lab man)
Norman Field (General)
Joseph Forte (Coroner Putnam)
Dean Fredericks (Detective Curtis)
Otis Garth (Admiral at 2nd conference)
Dorothy Green (matron)
Kenner G. Kemp
John Maxwell (Dr Grant)
Matthew McCue (Grampe)
Leonard Nimoy (staff sergeant Telex operator)
Joe Sawyer (Captain O'Connell)
William Schallert (ambulance attendant)
Fred Shellac
Joel Smith (Ben's driver)
Ken Smith
Douglas Spencer (reporter)
Janet Stewart (WAVE)
Dub Taylor (railroad yard watchman)
Harry Tyler, Harry Wilson (inmates)
Dick Wessel (railroad detective at boxcar)
Russell Gaige (bit part)
Liz Patten (double for Sandy Descher)
PLOT SUMMARY
In the deserts of the American South West, an army of gigantic ants
have been spawned as the result of pollution from nuclear testing. A
group of scientists and troops try to contain the menace, but when some
of the ants arrive in Los Angeles, the stage is set for the ultimate
showdown between Man and Nature.
AVAILABILITY
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Warner Brothers
Video Distributors: Cinema Classics; Warner Brothers Home Video
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Australia
Rating: PG
Finland
Rating: K-12
Germany
Rating: 12
USA
MPAA: 16752
AWARDS
1955
Academy Awards, USA
Best Effects, Special Effects - nomination
TIMELINE
1954
June
Day Unknown: USA - theatrical release
November
5: Finland - theatrical release
1985
September
16: UK - certified PG by the BBFC
POSTER TAGS
A horror horde of crawl-and-crush giants clawing out of
the earth from mile-deep catacombs!
Kill one and two take its place!
This city is under martial law until we annihilate THEM!
An Endless Terror! A Nameless Horror!
LINKS
SEE ALSO
Aliens (1986)
Matinee (1993)
Starship Troopers (1997)
Dogma (1999)
Bats (1999)
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Invasion Earth: The Aliens Are Here (1987)
REFERENCES
PERIODICALS
Filmfax 45 pp.26, 97 (USA)
review
Starlog no.258 (January 1999) (USA)
illustrated interview with Joan Weldon (A Human's Life by Tom Weaver)
BOOKS
Aurum Encyclopedia of Film: Science Fiction pp.148-149
review, credits
OTHER SOURCES
screen
credits
KEYWORDS
ants, children, deserts, FBI, flame throwers, giant insects, helicopters,
insects, military, police, scientists, sewers
Last Updated:
26 January, 2010
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