Gordon Douglas
PLOT - After several people in the New Mexico desert wind up missing or dead, including an F.B.I. agent and most of his family, police Sgt. Ben Peterson teams up with F.B.I. agent Bob Graham to find out what's causing the strange occurrences. They find send a strange print found at one of the crime scenes and it is sent to the Department of Agriculture. Doctor Harold Medford and his daughter Doctor Patricia Medford arrive and ask to be taken to the scene of some of the disappearances. When they get there they are shocked to find gigantic ants, whose mutations were caused by the first atomic bomb explosion nine years earlier. They manage to destroy the nest of ants, but not before two winged queen ants and a couple of drones have hatched and escaped the nest. Now it is a race against time to find the two queen ants before they can establish more nests and hatch more queens.
TAGLINES
The Amazing New Warner Bros. Sensation!
FANTASTIC MONSTERS ATTACK EARTH! (original ad - all caps)
A horror horde of crawl-and-crush giants clawing out of the earth from mile-deep catacombs!
Kill one and two take its place!
This city is under martial law until we annihilate THEM!
An Endless Terror! A Nameless Horror!
The Sci-Fi Classic of the Atomic Age
POSTER/DVD COVER


GLUME
James Whitmore ... Police Sgt. Ben Peterson
Edmund Gwenn ... Dr. Harold Medford
Joan Weldon ... Dr. Patricia 'Pat' Medford
James Arness ... Robert Graham
TRAILER - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AOspwNxjtE

