Another "radiation-created-giant-monster" and "big bug" movie, Monster From Green Hell, following Godzilla (1954), Them! (1954), and Tarantula (1955), was released in the US, May 17, 1957. It starred Jim Davis, who would go on to find bigger fame as Jock Ewing in Dallas in the 1970s and 1980s, and directed by Kenneth Crane.
The film tells of the creation of giant wasps in the African wilderness by a atomic satellite, launched from the US and crashed into Africa. Most of the film is stock footage from Stanley and Livingstone from 1939. In fact, the confrontation with the giant wasps takes place only ten minutes from the end of the movie. A very slow build-up with little suspense.
It was not received warmly by critics or audiences.
