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Overview

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Director:
Gordon Douglas
Writers:
Ted Sherdeman (screenplay)
Russell S. Hughes (adaptation)
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Release Date:
19 June 1954 (USA) more
Genre:
Sci-Fi | Horror more
Tagline:
The Amazing New Warner Bros. Sensation! more
Plot:
The earliest atomic tests in New Mexico cause common ants to mutate into giant man-eating monsters that threaten civilization. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win more
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THE ORIGINAL, THE BEST!!! more (163 total)

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Also Known As:
Them (USA) (poster title)
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Runtime:
94 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.75 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
Norway:16 (1954) | West Germany:16 (nf) | Australia:PG | Canada:PG | Finland:K-12 | Sweden:11 (1969) | UK:PG | USA:Approved (PCA #16752, General Audience)

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Unique script that begins as a standard police murder mystery and ends as a science fiction classic. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: While the Army is searching the storm drains of Los Angeles for the new nest of giant ants, they are seen to be using radios for communication. Radios do not work underground - especially in reinforced concrete tunnels. more
Quotes:
Dr. Harold Medford: [addressing a group of government officials] That, gentlemen, is why you are here - to consider this problem and, I hope, solve it. Because unless you solve it, unless these queens are located and destroyed before they've established thriving colonies and can produce, heaven alone knows, how many more queen ants, man, as the dominant species of life on earth, will probably be extinct within...
[looking at another scientist]
Dr. Harold Medford: a year, Doc?
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Featured in Encounters at the End of the World (2007) more

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40 out of 54 people found the following comment useful.
THE ORIGINAL, THE BEST!!!, 12 October 2002
Author: Brian Washington (Sargebri@att.net) from Los Angeles, California

"Them" is simply one of the most influential films of all time. This was the first film to deal with our fears of the atomic age and the what if scenario of what our continued testing and use of nuclear arms and how they would affect mother nature. Within the next few years we were bombarded with giant locusts, lizards and mutated humans of all sorts. In fact, this film was the inspiration for "Godzlla" (or "Gojira" as he is known in Japan). In fact, the giant insects in "Rodan" were a directly inspired by "Them". This film also works as a murder mystery as well. In the first half hour, the viewer thinks that he is looking at a whodunnit until the appearance of the giant ants. This film works on so many different levels that it still holds up well nearly fifty years after it was first released.

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