The Deadly Mantis (1957)
William Hopper: Dr. Nedrick Jackson
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Quotes
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[the officers are all staring at Marge]
Dr. Ned Jackson : It looks like you don't have too many women up here, Colonel.
Col. Joe Parkman : Well, we have a little joke up here. The boys say there's a girl behind every tree. Only try and find a tree.
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Dr. Ned Jackson : 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.
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Dr. Ned Jackson : In all the kingdom of the living, there is no more deadly or voracious creature than the Preying Mantis.
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Dr. Ned Jackson : The female is larger than the male and invariably destroys her mate when he's fulfilled his function in life.