"I'm going to TRANSFORM him, and unleash the savage instincts that lie hidden within... and then I'll be judged the benefactor. Mankind is on the verge of destroying itself. The only hope for the human race is to hurl it back into its primitive norm, to start all over again. What's one life compared to such a triumph?"

"In all the kingdom of the living, there is no more deadly or voracious creature than the praying mantis."

"Helen Jay — Mrs. Farley"

"Paul Campbell — Lt. Fred Pizar"

"Floyd Simmons — Army Sergeant"

"Phil Harvey — Lou, Radar Man"

"Paul Smith — Corporal, Parkman's Clerk"

"Florenz Ames — Prof. Anton Gunther"

"Pat Conway — Sgt. Pete Allen"

"Donald Randolph — Gen. Mark Ford"

"Alix Talton — Marge Blaine"

"William Hopper — Dr. Nedrick 'Ned' Jackson"

"Craig Stevens — Col. Joe Parkman"

"Out of a million years ago ... a thousand tons of horror!"

"This Was the Day That Engulfed the World in Terror!"

"The most dangerous monster that ever lived!"

"A Thousand Tons of Horror! From A Million Years Ago ..."

"Narrator: [a volcano near Antarctic erupts, causing an ice flow in the Arctic, which releases the Deadly Mantis] For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."

"Maybe there's an ordinary explanation to what happened, but I wouldn't take any bets."

"The female is larger than the male and invariably destroys her mate when he's fulfilled his function in life."

"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... it's doing the best that it can."

"Bud Abbott — Bud Alexander"

"AS PRIVATE EYES...they're getting an Eyeful!"

"Nancy Walters — Sylvia Lockwood"

"Judson Pratt — Lt. Mike Stevens"

"Joanna Moore — Madeline Howard"

"Eddie Parker — Prof. Donald Blake as a Monster"

"Arthur Franz — Prof. Donald Blake"

"Chills! Thrills!"

"Co-ed beauty captive of man-monster! Campus terror! Students victims of terror-beast!"

"Ah, the human female in the perfect state - helpless and silent."

"Nancy Guild — Helen Gray"

"Arthur Franz — Tommy Nelson"