- [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.
- 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.
- Col. Joe Parkman: Maybe there's an ordinary explanation to what happened, but I wouldn't take any bets.
- Dr. Ned Jackson: In all the kingdom of the living, there is no more deadly or voracious creature than the Praying Mantis.
- [a volcano near Antarctic erupts, causing an ice flow in the Arctic, which releases the Deadly Mantis]
- Opening Narration: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
- Dr. Ned Jackson: The female is larger than the male and invariably destroys her mate when he's fulfilled his function in life.
- bus passenger: [Exiting bus in fog] You know, it's good to get home safely with all the strange things going on around here.
- bus driver: Oh, there's nothing to worry about, ma'am. You just be careful out there in that fog!
- bus passenger: [Uncertainly] Thank you.
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By what name was La chose surgit des ténèbres (1957) officially released in India in English?
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