Flick Pick: ‘Them!’ (1954)

By KEITH CAMERON

Director: Gordon Douglas

Starring: James Whitmore, Joan Weldon, James Arness

Plot: This tale of the nuclear age claims that splitting the atom makes things grow big. A community in New Mexico is laid to waste as an army of enlarged monster ants rips people apart in their bloodthirsty search for sugar. Who will survive in the battle of man vs. ants? Man, of course, but only with the aid of flamethrowers!