Jim Davis stars as Dr. Quent Brady, who, along with Dan Morgan (Robert Griffin) are experimenting with sending test animals and insects into space and seeing what radiation will do.
One of their rockets gets lost and crashes in the African jungle. Soon they begin hearing about strange monsters terrorizing the locals and so they go to investigate.
They find that the wasps in the crashed rocket have been exposed to 40 hours of radiation and grown to enormous size. An expidition is formed to find the nest and wipe it out. After a lot of footage from the 1939 film "Stanley and Livingston" Quent and party find a jungle home of Dr. Lorentz (Vladimir Sokoloff).
The doctor has been killed by the monsters, but his daughter Lorna (Barbara Turner) welcomes Quent and Dan anyway. A second party is formed after the original safari bearers leave in the middle of the night.
When the small group locates the nest they are shocked by how many monsters there are, and they use explosives to try and stop them, but to no avail. A volcano erupts and that puts an end to the menace.
The very fun film was directed by Kenneth Crane who also co-directed "The Manster". Music was provided by Albert Glasser and the producer was Al Zimbalist, the man who gave us "Cat Women Of The Moon" and the immortal "Robot Monster".
I just love seeing these kinds of films come out on Blu-ray and Film Detective has done their usual beautiful job. This film is the version with the color ending which I have been searching for for almost 40 years!
This is a top release of 2022, and FD has more planned. The rest of the cast for this gem includes Eduardo Ciannelli, Joel Fluellen and Tim Huntley.
If you love 50's sci-fi like I do, this is a no brainer to buy. Coming next from FD in June will be the 1957 all time classic "Brain From Planet Arous" and that is one I am VERY excited to see coming out.
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