before jim davis get his last and career part a jock ewing in dallas and he have one torture path to hollywood success . he have a much publicize debut a bette davis lead man in winter meeting which be one of her bad film . his portrayal of a war hero about to enter the priesthood meet with a ton of critical guffaw . still davis persist and take any kind of work . the monster from green hell qualifies a any kind of work . a wasp be send up in space to see the effect . unfortunately on re entry the space capsule crash in the region of west africa and the wasp have grow to the size of a panzer tank . to top it all off the genius send up the rocket send up a pregnant queen so we have get all kind of those panzer wasps run around africa . jim davis be send to clean up the mess and run into a medical missionary play by vladimir sokoloff . albert schweitzer be very much alive at the time and run his mission in west africa . no one in 1958 mistook who sokoloff be portray . the wasp set up a colony in the shadow of a volcano . you can figure out the rest . this be typical fifty science fiction when all kind of radiation be the explanation for these creature . in this case it be the radiation from cosmic ray and presumably from the newly discover van allen belt around the earth . tepid acting and chintzy special effect make the monster from green hell great cult stuff . one thing though that be timely . an arab character play by eduardo ciannelli join force with davis and one of the native joel fluellen to combat the danger the giant wasp present . amaze how religious difference can suddenly melt away in time of crisis .