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Giant Creatures and Pirates Peril Shipwrecked Survivors on Jules Verne's "Mysterious Island" – Tonight!

With all the news lately about murder hornets invading- and the fact that many of us feel like we’re being kept on ice due to the quarantine- it seems like the time to bring back the man-eating mantis menace that defrosted and created a one-bug infestation- it's "The Deadly Mantis!"

Like so many of these 1950s films, this one starts out with a sort of documentary to set up the story ( and maybe give it the air of scientific credibility?) We hear the narrator present the fact that “for every action, there is a reaction”-and, as proof, we first see a volcano erupting in the South Seas , followed by the reaction-the energy it releases heading across the globe, as far as t...

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