A Look at the Movie Them! (1954) Part 3

[@Thraim.]

"Who would steal sugar? Some kind of giant ant?" Agents: [nervous laughter]

[@schwarzerritter5724]

Points for you resisting making an: "Do you want ants? Because that is how you get ants." joke.

[@thereseember2800]

This was such a great film when I was a kid.

[@hariman7727]

I miss classic movies that take themselves seriously like this one.

[@danieldickson8591]

The genius of this movie is that it took a premise that's physically impossible, but then asked, if it was possible, what would be the realistic, practical consequences?

[@rickpgriffin]

"who would steal sugar?" Immediately brought to mind the Simpsons episode where Homer stole sugar from a turned-over truck The strong must protect the sweeeeeeet.....

[@ravenwilder4099]

In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women.

[@KaizoeAzurum]

I can't live the button-down life like you. I want it all: the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy middles! Sure, I might offend a few of the bluenoses with my cocky stride and musky odors -- oh, I'll never be the darling of the so-called ‘City Fathers’ who cluck their tongues, stroke their beards, and talk about "What's to be done with this Homer Simpson?!"

[@ravenwilder4099]

It's kind of amazing how this final setpiece, with fighting their way through giant ants in the tunnels beneath Los Angeles, feels like an idea straight from the climax of a modern CGI action blockbuster.

[@danieldickson8591]

The only thing those recent movies have added is the CGI. Most of them aren't very original, essentially using the same plots and scenarios from sixty, seventy, eighty years ago.

[@davidlafleche1142]

@@danieldickson8591 Yes, but THEM! had the advantage of being the very first movie of its kind.

[@TF2CrunchyFrog]

Great review, and interesting trivia about the production troubles.

[@scottdecarrillo3082]

Obviously I am reverting back to my 1950's childhood (great time to grow up BTW) by watching this analysis of "Them!"--and damn, I enjoyed every minute of it, especially the pronoun intro and varied musical/political vignettes. Nice job, SFDebris Red!

[@Kink_Shaman]

We can’t let those ants take it, because it took so long to bake it. And I’ll never have that recipe again, oh no!

[@StudioCoqui]

MaCarthur's Park is melting in the dark All the giant ants stomping around Someone left the cake out in the rain I don't think that I can take it Cause all the giant ants just ate it and the poor little girl shouts "It's them!" Oh Nooooooooooo...

[@ArcturusMinsk]

As someone from the Red side of the world, yeah Sugar was a valuable commodity back then and in fact during most of the time that communism rained. It was really difficult to produce it before everyone switched from Sugar Cane to other cheaper sugar sources. This made sugar producing countries like Cuba hotly contested during the cold war. In Russia during the cold war sugar was rationed out to the populace long after sugar was made cheaper, though that might just be because it was a key component in moon shine.

[@davidlafleche1142]

Table sugar has two sources: sugar cane and sugar beets. Both are exactly the same.

[@wardragonprime]

Shades of Starship Troopers!!!😀😀😀

[@davidlafleche1142]

Starship Troopers was written in 1959, five years after this movie.

[@AnthonyMoore-rd7yv]

I saw this movie 🎬 back in the day. It was made before I was born.

[@gortbot7748]

James Arness, Fess Parker, and James Whitmore, an all star lineup.

[@danieldickson8591]

With the beloved Edmund Gwenn to add gravity.

[@tipulsar85]

*humms the pink panther theme*

[@marcherwitch9811]

dad? is that you?

[@18661873]

Jensen was the best character in the movie. I hope they drafted him and made him a sergeant in charge of the booze. "A drunkards dream if I ever did see one."

[@michellenelson6571]

They are hilarious , love these

[@brj_han]

Didja ever see "Beginning of the End"? Peter Graves in 1957. Not giant ants, giant grasshoppers! Best scenes were grasshoppers climbing on pictures of buildings (in Chicago) to make them look huge, lol....

[@danieldickson8591]

It's worth noting that Pat Medford was one of the people in the four jeeps hunting the ants through the LA tunnels. She remained at the forefront of the campaign against the ants throughout the movie.

[@davidlafleche1142]

Look at the scene when they go into the nest. As the surviving ants are digging out, you'll notice Pat Medford is the only one who is NOT trembling.

[@charlietusa6334]

Is there any way to watch the whole movie

[@dianepulley7439]

I do agree with you.I'm glad I have most all of them.The whole movies not part.

[@RobertGoldman-o2p]

In the end when the military burned the underground egg chamber, there was the possibility that there are other egg chambers not discovered yet.

[@davidlafleche1142]

No, because there can be only one egg chamber. As Dr. Medford pointed out, the queen never leaves her nest. She always stays in the same place.

[@TV4Fun2]

You couldn't have given us a few seconds clip of the Wilhelm scream in the movie so we know what you're going on about?

[@kristinaF54]

What's the reason for breaking your video into parts instead of uploading it as one video?

[@sfdebrisred6555]

KZbin bots operate on varying levels of strictness, and the longer the video the stricter it gets. Thus as stupid at it is, while the complete video will be flagged as unacceptable by bots, chopping it into three pieces with no changes at all allows each piece to individually pass muster. I find it irritating, personally.

[@michellenelson6571]

Got Ants?

[@mikebell2112]

What was that, an airplane... for ants?!

[@bradwolf07]

Sugar Black Market? And decades ahead of it's time to!

[@michellenelson6571]

Monster movies rule