{"id":30185,"date":"2022-07-12T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30185"},"modified":"2022-07-11T14:50:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T18:50:26","slug":"the-deadly-mantis-1957-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30185","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Deadly Mantis&#8221; (1957) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z071222zview_deadly mantis.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Deadly Mantis <\/strong><\/em>(1957)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Nathan Juran<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay by:\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>Martin Berkeley<\/strong> based on a story by <strong>William Alland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring:\u00a0 <strong>Craig Stevens, William Hopper <\/strong>and <strong>Alix Talton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> The most dangerous monster that ever lived!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of spoilers<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When volcanic eruptions set a gigantic prehistoric preying mantis free, the world becomes his buffet.\u00a0 It is up to Col. Joe Parkman (Stevens), Dr. Nedrick Jackson (Hopper) and Marge Blaine (Talton) to find a way to stop this giant insect.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Documentary footage of Eskimos and jets taking off make poor filler footage.\u00a0 The giant praying mantis looks good in scenes where it is busting into a building, but not so good when flying.\u00a0 This viewing didn&#8217;t rate as high as the first time I saw <em>The Deadly Mantis.<\/em>\u00a0 Of course I&#8217;m no longer eight.\u00a0<em> The Deadly Mantis<\/em> rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z071222zview_deadly mantis2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Deadly Mantis (1957) Director:\u00a0 Nathan Juran Screenplay by:\u00a0 \u00a0Martin Berkeley based on a story by William Alland Starring:\u00a0 Craig<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30186,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30185\/revisions\/30186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}