Them (1954 Movie Trailer)

Them! is a 1954 black-and-white science fiction giant monster film starring James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, and James Arness.

Transcript

00:00I tell you, gentlemen, science has agreed that unless something is done and done quickly,

00:17man, as the dominant species of life on Earth, will be extinct within a year.

00:30My direction of the President of the United States, stay in your homes, I repeat, stay

00:59in your homes.

01:01Your personal safety, the safety of the entire city, depends upon your full cooperation with

01:06the military authorities.

01:08Yes, cities, nations, even civilization itself, threatened with annihilation because in one

01:15moment of history-making violence, nature, mad, rampant, wrought its most awesome creation.

01:21For born in that swirling inferno of radioactive dust were things so horrible, so terrifying,

01:28so hideous.

01:30There is no word to describe them.

01:37We may be witnesses to a biblical prophecy come true, and there shall be destruction and

01:46darkness come up in creation, and the beasts shall reign over the Earth.

01:51Yes, the Earth, the skies above and the seas below, infested by swarms of nightmare creatures,

01:58cruel or deadlier than the armored giants of prehistoric eras.

02:01Here is a wild headlong flight into terror, as the desert erupts with a grim battle for surviving.

02:07Here is a fear frenzied moment of suspense, as mankind totters before a thing that multiplies

02:14faster than it can be killed.

02:15Here is a desperate plunge into the black depths of the Earth, where human courage challenges

02:21the brute force, the slashing jaws, the poison fangs that guard the subterranean nest, where

02:26the beast spawns its terrible progeny.

02:29To all units.

02:30To all units.

02:31Condition red.

02:32Drain 267 is the target area.

02:34Repeat.

02:35Condition red.

02:36Drain 267 is the target area.

02:50Is there any type of gas we could use?

02:51No, we can't take a chance.

02:52We can't take a chance.

02:53It might poison the whole city.