Them [DVD] [1954] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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  • Actor : James Whitmore
  • Actor : Edmund Gwenn
  • Actor : Joan Weldon
  • Actor : James Arness
  • Actor : Onslow Stevens
  • Aspect Ratio : 4:3 - 1.33:1
  • Binding : DVD
  • Creator : James Whitmore
  • Creator : Edmund Gwenn
  • Creator : Sidney Hickox
  • Creator : Thomas Reilly
  • Creator : David Weisbart
  • Creator : George Worthing Yates
  • Creator : Russell S. Hughes
  • Creator : Ted Sherdeman
  • Director : Gordon Douglas
  • EAN : 9780790768076
  • Format : Black & White
  • Format : DVD-Video
  • Format : Full Screen
  • Format : Subtitled
  • Format : NTSC
  • ISBN : 0790768070
  • Label : Warner Home Video
  • Languages : Subtitled: English, Subtitled: Spanish, Subtitled: French, Subtitled: Portuguese, Subtitled: Japanese, Original Language: English
  • Manufacturer : Warner Home Video
  • MPN : WARD11191D
  • Number Of Discs : 1
  • Number Of Items : 1
  • Package Dimensions : 0.60 inches (Height) x 7.40 inches (Length) x 0.20 pounds (Weight) x 5.50 inches (Width)
  • Part Number : WARD11191D
  • Product Group : DVD
  • Publisher : Warner Home Video
  • Region Code : 1
  • Release Date : 2002-08-06
  • Running Time : 94
  • SKU : DS76849
  • Studio : Warner Home Video
  • UPC : 085391119128

An early entry in the 1950s cycle of creature-feature pictures, Them! is the one about hordes of ants mutated to a giant size by the first A-bomb test. An exciting, persuasive exercise in paranoid science fiction, it exhibits an interesting tension between cautious warning about irresponsible tampering with the atom and a Cold War vision of the authorities taking on extraordinary powers to combat a threat to the country. It begins as an eerie desert mystery, with New Mexico cop James Whitmore investigating disappearances and deaths: a mobile-home and a general store are crushed as if tanks have rolled over them, a shopkeeper is found dead of a huge injection of formic acid, quantities of sugar have been stolen (the film's sole straight-faced joke) and a catatonic little girl is shocked into shrieking "them, them!". FBI agent James Arness takes charge and a plaster-cast of a strange imprint summons a father and daughter investigative team from the Department of Agriculture, cherubic Edmond Gwenn and smart-suited Joan Taylor. Law-enforcement, military and scientific experts deduce the nature of the problem and take swift, decisive action to counteract the danger. Director Gordon Douglas stages several great monster-suspense scenes: a first encounter in a sandstorm, a venture into a poisoned nest, a glimpse of horror at sea, and a finale in the Los Angeles storm drains. On the DVD: Them! has the wonderful scarlet-lettered, shrieking title on an otherwise sharp-looking black and white print. An amusing newspaper-style menu uses original artwork from the lurid poster to showcase some interesting snippets of test or outtake footage of the big puppet ants in action, and there's a wonderfully overblown terror-trailer.--Kim Newman

- Amazon.co.uk Review

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