Them!

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Joan Weldon and James Arness face a giant mutant ant in a desert landscape in a scene from the 1954 science fiction film Them! directed by Gordon Douglas.

Them!

film by Douglas [1954]

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Gordon Douglas
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…foray into science fiction with Them!, a critical and commercial success. Arguably the best of the “giant atomic-mutant creature” movies of the 1950s, it became a sci-fi classic and is widely considered Douglas’s best work.
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…foray into science fiction with Them!, a critical and commercial success. Arguably the best of the “giant atomic-mutant creature” movies of the 1950s, it became a sci-fi classic and is widely considered Douglas’s best work.
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horror film
…mutations of ordinary animals (Them!, 1954). Japanese studios released monster films, such as Gojira (1954; Godzilla) and Radon (1956; Rodan), while British companies such as Hammer Films shifted the emphasis from atmospheric terror to scenes of bloody violence in motion pictures such as The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and…
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…mutations of ordinary animals (Them!, 1954). Japanese studios released monster films, such as Gojira (1954; Godzilla) and Radon (1956; Rodan), while British companies such as Hammer Films shifted the emphasis from atmospheric terror to scenes of bloody violence in motion pictures such as The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and…
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