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Onslow Stevens as General Robert O'Brien

Son of character actor Houseley Stevenson, brother of designer Edward Stevenson and actor Houseley Stevenson Jr., Onslow Stevens was highly active from mid-1920s at the Pasadena Community Playhouse, where his entire family worked frequently as performers, directors and teachers.

He scored a major success on Broadway in "Stage Door" in 1936. He played many leading roles and even more character parts over the years. Although at first a stalwart and reliable figure in films, in later years his career was adversely affected by alcohol.

Nevertheless, he was a familiar and respected performer for many years. His final months were spent in a Van Nuys, California, nursing home where, in November 1976, he suffered a broken hip under unclear circumstances. Pneumonia set in and he died in January 1977. A coroner's inquest ruled that the broken hip had occurred "at the hands of another, not an accident."







The next day, they are searching the desert for any signs of a mound. Peterson and Harold in one helicopter piloted by Brig. General Robert O'Brien. Graham and Patricia are in another helicopter piloted by Major Kibbee.

O'BRIEN: Doctor, this nest we're looking for. How many giant ants do you think will be in it?

H. MEDFORD: Well General, I really don't know. If they follow the usual pattern of their species, the nest, depending on it's age, may contain from several hundreds to several thousands.

PETERSON: Several thousands, Doctor?

H. MEDFORD: It's possible.

O'BRIEN: Look Doctor, if we run into several thousand of the thing you killed yesterday, it will take a bomber squadron plus an infantry regiment to mop up after us. How do you propose to keep that a secret?


H. MEDFORD: You're jumping to conclusions, General O'Brien. There may not be nearly so many of these creatures as you suppose.

O'BRIEN: I'm not supposing anything after looking at that carcus. What I can't understand is, why no one has seem them till now.

H. MEDFORD: Well for one reason, I don't believe these creatures developed recently. For another, for there being here, in these hundreds of thousands of square miles of desert . . .

He pauses, Harold thinks he sees a mound.

H. MEDFORD: No, that isn't it. . . . Could I speak to my daughter please, General.

O'BRIEN: Of course.

H. MEDFORD: Thank you.

PETERSON: Talk right in there

H. MEDFORD: Hello . . . Pat. Pat, are you there?

PETERSON: That's not the way to put in a call, Doctor. We're Search Able - call Search Baker, right General?

O'BRIEN: Right.

H. MEDFORD: Oh . . . Search Able to search Baker.

PETERSON: Say over. Then say over.

H. MEDFORD: Over.


P. MEDFORD: Medford and Baker to Medford and Able. Go ahead Dad. Over.

H. MEDFORD: Have you found anything yet?

PETERSON: Say over.

H. MEDFORD: I just said it.

PETERSON: I know, say it again.

H. MEDFORD: Over.

P. MEDFORD: Baker to Able. Not yet. We're about three quarters of the way across our sector. We're now at coordinates Charlie-six. Over.

H. MEDFORD: Well don't pass up any possibilities. Let me know the moment you find anything.


PETERSON: If you're finished, say over and out.

H. MEDFORD: But she knows I'm through talking.

PETERSON: I know she does, Doctor, but it's a rule, you got to say it. Ain't that right, General?

O'BRIEN: Right, Sargeant.

H. MEDFORD: Oh this is ridiculous! Lot of good your rules are going to do us if we don't locate . . . .

Peterson grabs the headphone form Harold and finishes the call.

PETERSON: Over and out.

H. MEDFORD: Oh, now you're happy!


KIBBEE: Real calm fellow, isn't he.

GRAHAM: Worried about him?

P. MEDFORD: Oh a little. He's not a young man, he really shouldn't of made this trip. But he's a scientist and this is a scientist's dream come true.








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