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THE DEADLY MANTIS

Craig Stevens
William Hopper
Directed by: Nathan Juran

A gigantic flying, praying Mantis is terrorising the world, can it be destroyed?

Great entertainment for lovers of 50's horror movies, and with virtually all the plot gone it's action all the way.

Listen out for the interesting score by Joseph Gershenson*, it's highly effective and strongly reminiscent of Gyorgy Ligeti's brilliant music used in 2001.

Print quality is basically good, being sharp and well graded.

The overall effect however, is slightly let down by some poor quality library footage.

*A correction to the original review

The author refers to the great score by Joseph Gershenson. Gershenson was just the conductor. The music was composed by my friend Irving Gertz and William Lava.

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Distributed in the UK by: Derann Films.
Distributed World Wide by: Universal 8
Produced in 1957.
Format: Super 8mm.
Supplied on: 1 reel (200ft).
Approximate Running Time: 7 minutes.
Black & White & Sound.
Reviewer: GRAHAM WALKER.
Reviewers rating: Print A/B Sound A

The above review was printed in Super Eight Film Review issue 9.
Reproduced by the kind permission of Derek Simmonds.
Long out of print if you want a copy of this film it would be secondhand.

This page was last updated 19 Jan 2003