--- title: 'Beginning of the End (1957)' type: 'film' director: 'Bert Ira Gordon' released: '1957-01-01' runtime_minutes: 76 genres: - 'Science Fiction' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/beginning-of-the-end-1957' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050177/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Beginning of the End (1957) 1957 · 76 min · Science Fiction · United States ## Synopsis Beginning of the End is a 1957 American science fiction film produced and directed by Bert I. Gordon. It stars Peter Graves, Peggie Castle, and Morris Ankrum. Dr. Ed Wainwright, an agricultural scientist, played by Graves, successfully grows gigantic vegetables using radiation. Unfortunately, the vegetables are eaten by locusts, which quickly grow to a gigantic size and attack the nearby city of Chicago. Beginning of the End is generally known for its "atrocious" special effects, "and yet," writes reviewer Bill Warren, "there is something almost compellingly watchable about this goofy little movie". ## Credits - **Director:** [Bert Ira Gordon](https://cinepixo.com/people/bert-ira-gordon) - **Screenplay:** [Fred Freiberger](https://cinepixo.com/people/fred-freiberger) - **Producer:** [Bert Ira Gordon](https://cinepixo.com/people/bert-ira-gordon) - **Original Music Composer:** [Albert Glasser](https://cinepixo.com/people/albert-glasser) - **Director of Photography:** [Jack A. Marta](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-a-marta) - **Editor:** [Aaron Stell](https://cinepixo.com/people/aaron-stell) ## Cast - [Peter Graves](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-graves-2) - [Frank Wilcox](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-wilcox) - [Peggie Castle](https://cinepixo.com/people/peggie-castle) - [Morris Ankrum](https://cinepixo.com/people/morris-ankrum) - [Richard Benedict](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-benedict) - [Paul Frees](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-frees) - [Larry J. Blake](https://cinepixo.com/people/larry-j-blake) - [Hank Patterson](https://cinepixo.com/people/hank-patterson) - [Ralph Sanford](https://cinepixo.com/people/ralph-sanford) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/beginning-of-the-end-1957 Film facts: Wikidata (Q2313963); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.