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	The Deadly Mantis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Deadly Mantis is a 1957 science fiction film produced by William Alland for Universal-International Pictures.
		A sudden geologic shift in the Arctic frees a 200-foot-long prehistoric praying mantis from a glacier in which it had become frozen alive.
		The injured mantis takes refuge in the Holland Tunnel, where the military is finally able to finish it off.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Deadly_Mantis (368 words)

	Harun Yahya - The Mantis Shrimp's Deadly Kicking Mechanism
		Mantis shrimps (Stomatopods) are known for the feeding tubes they use to break the shells of their prey and the way they kick as fast as bullets.
		Mantis shrimp are predatory crustaceans that live in shallow regions of tropical and subtropical seas.
		In a similar way, the fact that the seat of the mantis shrimp spring mechanism is saddle shaped prevents collapse by reducing the effect of the forces arising during compressing and extending.
	www.harunyahya.com /articles/science_news/15_mantis_shrimp.php (1114 words)

	A mantis in your tank?
		I agree with many of his arguments, however, you should note that many of the newsgroup posts concerning problems with mantis shrimp have reported BOTH the loss of fish/invertebrates AND the presence of what they take to be mantis shrimps.
		Mantis shrimps have a pair of "winglike" antennal scales along the sides of their head, which you can very clearly see if you look at them face to face.
		The mantis is deadly to others (especially when it's pretty hungry), although one mantis that I have has (so far) left other inhabitants alone when kept amply fed. I've seen pics of gobies and pistols cooperating, while I'm sure the mantis would rather eat the fish than live with it.
	www.blueboard.com /mantis/pest/tell.htm (848 words)

	The Deadly Mantis
		Deadly Mantis wasn't doing too much guessing when he was peeking Nedrick's gal pal photographer and smashing up the military base they were staying at.
		Somehow everyone figures out that Deadly Mantis is headed south back to the tropics where he was most at home ten gazillion years ago before he got frozen.
		Truly, the king of all giant mantis movies, The Deadly Mantis is only marred by the failure to include a scene of a giant female mantis biting the head off of her giant male mantis mate after they're done doing the nasty.
	monsterhunter.coldfusionvideo.com /Deadly_Mantis.html (1025 words)

	Deadly Mantis, the (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		"The Deadly Mantis", begins with a lengthy explanation of the "new" wonder of this period the radar, how it operates and what it is capable of picking up.
		On the way south the Mantis wreaks havoc in Washington where it attacks the Washington Monument before it is finally trapped in the Manhatten Tunnel in New York.
		Performances in "The Deadly Mantis", are of the earnest and sincere kind one expects from this period in Sci Fi film making.
	www.i16.jp /file/ca/6302763916.html (1011 words)

	Praying Mantis DesertUSA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Let another praying mantis wander too near, and the two may join in a savage fight to the death, with the winner eating the loser, utterly undeterred by an act of cannibalism.
		Let the mate of a female praying mantis wander too near, and she, always the larger and stronger of the two, may attack and eat the father of her own children.
		With its worshipful appearance on one hand and bloodthirsty behavior on the other, the praying mantis, widely distributed across the world, has given rise to many myths, as suggested by its very name, “mantis,” which means “prophet” or “seer,” a being with spiritual or mystical powers.
	www.desertusa.com /mag06/feb/mantis.html (1218 words)

	The Video Graveyard: The Deadly Mantis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Agreeable 50's monster movie starts like an educational film (explaining all about radar fences with "knowledgable" narration) before getting down to the business at hand as a gigantic praying mantis travels the World terrorizing, destroying and generally being a nuisance.
		Watchable and endearing B-flick from director Juran (who also helmed the original Attack Of The 50 Ft. Woman) may be a tad talky (like most of this decade's sci-fi giant bug movies) but is so unserious in tone and has enough pleasing monster mayhem to make it recommended fare.
		The obvious "puppet" Mantis isn't that bad actually, but is completely lacking during all the flying sequences.
	www.geocities.com /vidgrave/d/deadlymantis.html (138 words)

	THE DEADLY MANTIS Withstands the Test of Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The praying mantis is one of the more recognizable arthropods, along with the cockroach and the tarantula.
		Despite it's size, their mantis is a mantis is a mantis.
		Where The Deadly Mantis really lucks out is with its cast--Craig Stevens as Col. Joe Parkman, the obligatory military hero; William Hopper as Ned Jackson, the far-from-absentminded professor; and Alix Talton as a feisty museum PR director who doesn't know much about photography but holds her own in the clinches.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/sf_and_fantasy_on_film/78798 (458 words)

	MusicMonolith
		Lava’s contribution is in the form of the 21 seconds of tracked music from The Deadly Mantis that opens the picture, a cue called “Map Of The World.” Stein’s three cues, totaling 1:42, are heard in the scenes when little Ginny Simpson is cured, when Mrs.
		The music for The Deadly Mantis was co-composed relatively equally by Gertz and William Lava, and their thematic material was quite discrete.
		And, while a lot of the cues in The Deadly Mantis were buried under the sound effects of a gigantic roaring and humming insect, the music in The Monolith Monsters is more in the foreground and plays a larger role in the film.
	www.mmmrecordings.com /Music/MusicMonolith/musicmonolith.html (411 words)

	Deadly Mantis
		n paper, 'Deadly Mantis' seems to have all of the vital ingredients of another Shaw Brothers' classic.
		Although 'Deadly Mantis' is a well made and above average, it undoubtedly disappoints when compared with Liu Chia Liang's best work.
		'Deadly Mantis' flounders here though as it also does in sketching the other important players in the drama.
	www.dragonsdenuk.com /reviews/deadly_mantis.htm (549 words)

	Civil War Interactive: Civil War VHS: Deadly Mantis (1957) / Movie
		Unlike "Tarantula," however, part of the appeal of "The Deadly Mantis" is that it doesn't confine itself to the stuffiness of a small town, and as a result, may generate more excitement for some viewers.
		The mantis causes quit a stir when it attacks a huge jet and the accident is unexplained, and when a huge hook like object is found in the wreckage.
		As the Paleontologist and his assistant are at a military hanger in the Artic, the mantis attacks them, and is soon made to flee by flame throwers, and then goes to the states, where the real fun begins...
	www.civilwarinteractive.com /shop.php?mode=VHS&item=6302763916 (1777 words)

	The Deadly Mantis
		In this case, instead of not-so-cheep stop motion or just grafting a regular mantis into the frame, enlarged to giant proportions, the Deadly Mantis is a puppet manipulated around miniature buildings.
		Mantis goes to Washington D.C. where it settles on the Washington Monument and is chased away by US fighter plains.
		Sadly, The Deadly Mantis shares a characteristic with Up From the Depths in that it recycles the same scene over and over again.
	chosis.coldfusionvideo.com /dmantis.htm (897 words)

	Shaolin Mantis (1978)
		Enter the praying mantis that becomes his inspiration for the kung fu style to defeat the Shadowy Fist.
		Part of Norman's deadly sword technique is to frequently perform rolls on the ground.
		Chiang's Mantis style, with its own locking moves and counters is the perfect foil.
	www.kungfucinema.com /reviews/shaolinmantis.htm (1272 words)

	THE DEADLY MANTIS - movie review
		But since the Mantis in the movie immediately heads for the tropics it’s clear that it didn’t live in an environment where being frozen was something to worry about.
		The big bug rumors reach the media after an Eskimo village is terrorized, although you mostly don’t see the Mantis.
		The concept here is interesting — a praying mantis is in fact a vicious carnivore and a giant one would be a great monster, but the writers failed story telling 101.
	www.feoamante.com /Movies/DEF/deadly_mantis.html (878 words)

	TRN - May 1999 - Graying Mantis
		She reported the "Praying Mantis type" alien is ancient and a rare branch of the Grays.
		Huggins has drawings of a mantis encounter that he said took place when he was eight years old – and, by inference, in the 1950s.
		The genealogy of the mantis alien so clearly points to the effects of cultural factors I don’t feel it is even necessary to recycle my warnings about space insects and big bugs being a uniquely modern Western creation.
	www.reall.org /newsletter/v07/n05/graying-mantis.html (3055 words)

	The Nitpickers Site: Movie Nitpick - Deadly Mantis, The - 1957Nitpickers.com - Movie Mistakes - Post and review ...
		The paleontology/biology expert, Dr. Ned Jackson, employed by the military to help identify the creature says as the mantis hovers outside his window: "I'm convinced that we're dealing with a Mantis in whose geological world the smallest insects were as large as man, and now failing to find those insects as food, well...
		Maybe that is what this "expert" was referring to, was the time period that this Mantis existed in.
		The nitpick's correct: referring to the deadly mantis's "geological" world in the context of this film is nitpick-worthy.
	www.nitpickers.com /movies/nitpick.cgi?np=79208 (260 words)

	MST3K Review
		This movie really isn’t that bad when compared to some of the other monster films of the era but the effects of the Mantis flying are very cheesy.
		Eventually, the Mantis gets to Washington D.C. where it is wounded by a jet fighter and retreat inside a highway tunnel.
		Come on, sure they’re goofy, but the Star Wars reference by Crow was worth it all: "It was as though millions of monkeys cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced." Bill Corbett is getting better and better as Crow, and Trace will soon meet his match.
	crow-t-robot.home.mindspring.com /reviews_s08_ep804.html (336 words)

	The Deadly Mantis
		Anyway, next up is a close-up on a praying mantis, frozen in what appears to be a perfectly ordinary (if slightly larger than usual) ice cube, with The Deadly Mantis superimposed on the image in big block capitals.
		It is to Marge that Jackson first reveals his ultimate identification of the mystery appendage-- that it is a spur from the foreleg of a praying mantis, a monster mantis which Jackson believes somehow found itself trapped in ice millions of years ago.
		I also found amusing the extent to which The Deadly Mantis is a commercial for the Civilian Observer Corps, the volunteer organization whose job it was to monitor the skies for Russian bombers on their days off.
	www.1000misspenthours.com /reviews/reviewsa-d/deadlymantis.htm (1297 words)

	The Nitpickers Site: Movie Nitpick - Deadly Mantis, The - 1957Nitpickers.com - Movie Mistakes - Post and review ...
		The mantis stands outside a remote military station, in which the only second-story lit window is far from the Mantis.
		This is while the paleontology/biology expert, Dr. Ned Jackson, says "I'm convinced that we're dealing with a Mantis in whose geological world the smallest insects were as large as man, and now failing to find those insects as food, well...
		The nitpick is that in the window behind Dr. Jackson, the mantis can cleary be seen looking directly into the window.
	www.nitpickers.com /movies/nitpick.cgi?np=79209 (211 words)

	Monster Shack: The Deadly Mantis (1957)
		Incredibly enough, the mantis special effects were done by Fred Knoth: the man responsible for the nice effects done the same year in sci-fi classic (in my eyes) The Incredible Shrinking Man.
		Suddenly, out of the smoke, the mantis rears its head and lets out a ferocious roar...which is quite a feat given that insects don't have vocal cords.
		By the late 1950's movies like "The Deadly Mantis", "Beginning of the End", and its pathetic brethren were busy putting the last nails in the "bug bug" movie's coffin.
	www.monstershack.net /reviews/full/deadlymantis.htm (2671 words)

	deadlymantis
		In this case it's an oversized praying mantis becoming unfrozen as a volcano erupts in the Arctic and after millions of years is now making humans vanish because it is devouring them, as it heads south to where it feels more comfortable.
		A weather shack has been crushed and two occupants have vanished, as General Ford (Randolph) in Washington DC is perplexed by all the explanations he has heard about the mystery and takes Prof.
		He discovers that we are dealing with a creature we didn't know existed, an oversized praying mantis.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/deadlymantis.htm (450 words)

	#804 - The Deadly Mantis
		So, there's a giant deadly mantis, but no one figures that out for a really long time.
		It's painfully obvious that the thing doing all the destruction in this film is a giant deadly mantis, but these people are kinda vague.
		Tom has made a set of guidelines, even though the others don't think the day is neccessary.
	www.angelfire.com /ca3/mstie804/eps/804.html (406 words)

	Video : Deadly Mantis (1957) / Movie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Although I've seen many movies worse than this one, there is no way I can possibly call the Deadly Mantis good in any way.
		From the golden age of Universal Pictures, "The Deadly Mantis" (1957) is an above-average giant insect film directed by Nathan Juran in glorious fl and white.
		A giant prehistoric mantis thaws out in the arctic, aggravating air force personnel and eating civilians along its way as it buzzes through the skies to New York.
	www.investcom.com /cgi-bin/bookstore/bookstore.cgi?input_item=6302763916&input_search_type=AsinSearch (529 words)

	The Deadly Mantis (1957) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A fragment of a claw is identified by palaentologist Nedrick Jackson as belonging to a prehistoric giant praying mantis which he theorizes has been kept in suspended animation in the ice.
		The giant mantis now makes its way south toward to the USA.
		The scenes of the mantis flying and blended with stock footage of fighter planes is really quite eerie.
	www.moria.co.nz /sf/deadlymantis.htm (438 words)

	The Deadly Mantis (1957) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Something awakens and the men at the base are attacked, and no one can figure out by whom or by what.
		Pretty soon Dr. Ned and Col. Joe are on the case and discover that the culprit is a deadly giant mantis, which soon leaves the arctic to terrorize the good ol' US of A. Pretty good effects and a good story make this movie quite fun and enjoyable.
		Actors are all good, but the characters played by Stevens and Hopper are quite the pair of nincompoops and not the brightest stars in the sky.
	www.hillcity-comics.com /movie_reviews/movie0508.htm (174 words)

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	MST3000 Movie Review for 804, The Deadly Mantis
		He brings along his photographer lady friend, she falls in love with the guy in charge of the army base, and they all get attacked by said giant - and deadly - mantis.
		Anyhoo, the deadly - and giant - mantis gets trapped in a tunnel in New York and is killed.
		The last time I checked, The Deadly Mantis is still available on video.
	www.angelfire.com /mt/3000/804.html (546 words)

	Jad Fair and Jason Willett - The Deadly Mantis – Music at Last.fm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Pick a Word When more people add tags for The Deadly Mantis, a tag cloud will appear here.
		Music Journals on Last.fm You can be the first person to write a journal about The Deadly Mantis.
		Jad Fair and Jason Willett – The Deadly Mantis’s shoutbox is empty.
	www.last.fm /music/Jad+Fair+and+Jason+Willett/_/The+Deadly+Mantis (119 words)

	The Deadly Mantis movie posters and memorabilia at MovieGoods
		In 1997, Bette Davis became the first female film star to be honored with the prestigious Life Achievement Award of the American Film Institute (AFI).
		A gigantic praying mantis lies in a million-year-old sleep in the frozen reaches of the Arctic.
		Review: A gigantic praying mantis lies in a million-year-old sleep in the frozen reaches of the Arctic.
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