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Name: Them!
Released: 1954-6-19
Cast: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness, Onslow Stevens

Them!

UR
1h 33m
1954

93%

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An Endless Terror! A Nameless Horror! ... Kill one and two take its place! Ten years after atomic bomb tests, a little girl wanders alone out of the New Mexico desert. Investigators discover a string of brutal murders. But the traumatized girl, the sole witness to the killings, can only scream one word ... Them! The investigation leads to a nest of atomically mutated giant ants that threaten to destroy mankind. After a ferocious battle the humans gain the upper hand, destroying the nest--but not before a queen and drones escape. After a desperate search, a thriving new nest is found, and the fateful, final battle between man and monster rages beneath the city of Los Angeles as a horror horde of giants claws out of the earth from mile-deep catacombs!

Director:

Gordon Douglas

Producer:

David Weisbart

Writer:

Ted Sherdeman, Russell S. Hughes, George Worthing Yates

Cast:

James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness, Onslow Stevens, Sean McClory, Chris Drake, Sandy Descher, Mary Alan Hokanson, Don Shelton, Fess Parker, Olin Howlin

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

93%

Critics Consensus: One of the best creature features of the early atomic age, Them! features effectively menacing special effects and avoids the self-parody that would taint later monster movies.

Reviews

Keith & the Movies

Keith Garlington

The genre holds a special place in my heart, and “THEM!” was the quintessential big bug movie.

Views of the creatures which had the youngsters screeching delightedly are plenty scary -- in fact the blown-up scenes of actual ants, such as everyone in the hot country knows, are enough to make you squirm.

There is added conviction in performance and dialogue, both of which are particularly good for a production largely designed for chilling spines.

Edmund Gwenn is such a convincing old actor that he and his scientific calculations have you actually believing in the 8-feet-high ants bringing terror and destruction in Them!

It moves fast and is superbly silly.

September 28, 2021

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