Directed by Nathan Juran from a screenplay by Martin Berkeley based on a story by producer William Alland, The Deadly Mantis was made with a monstrous papier mâché model of the mantis that measured 200 feet long and 40 feet high with a wingspan of 150 feet. There are some smaller models and actual footage of a praying mantis.
As for the mantis, it escapes from a volcano and starts flying toward Washington, D. C. Nothing can seem to stop this thing, not machine guns or flamethrowers. Col. Joe Parkman (Craig Stevens) and his men are on trying to stop it and they're joined by Marge Blaine (Alix Talton), a magazine reporter who every army guy wants to get with.
How do you kill a gigantic mantis? You throw a bomb in its face. Good old fashioned U. S. ingenuity wins the day, as always.
As for the mantis, it escapes from a volcano and starts flying toward Washington, D. C. Nothing can seem to stop this thing, not machine guns or flamethrowers. Col. Joe Parkman (Craig Stevens) and his men are on trying to stop it and they're joined by Marge Blaine (Alix Talton), a magazine reporter who every army guy wants to get with.
How do you kill a gigantic mantis? You throw a bomb in its face. Good old fashioned U. S. ingenuity wins the day, as always.