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'''Beginning of the End''' is a 1957 science fiction film starring Peter Graves and Peggie Castle. In it, gigantic grasshoppers created at the Illinois State Experimental Farm attack Chicago. The film was featured on ''Mystery Science Theater 3000''.

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★ Elements from the end of this film were "borrowed" for the killer-bee disaster flick ''The Swarm''.

★ Director Bert I. Gordon used rear projection, a common special effect at the time, to present the giant grasshoppers "interacting" with the characters. He also included close-up shots of grasshoppers crawling on photographs of Chicago buildings for ultra-low-budget establishment and action scenes.

★ The quote "You can't drop an atom bomb on Chicago" was later used in the film ''Matinee'' with John Goodman.

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