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This awful and awesome scene is shown in full color in Robert Snyder's The Hidden World, a beautiful movie in which one sees a female praying mantis ten feet tall, a sight to shake the stoutest heart.
- ↑ "The 31st Academy Awards (1959) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved May 31, 2019.
