Posted on 06/23/2023 6:47:00 AM PDT by hardspunned
As the Baldwin family heads on vacation, their hometown of Los Angeles falls victim to a nuclear attack. Harry (Ray Milland), his wife, Ann (Jean Hagen), and their two teens head to their fishing retreat in the mountains, hoping to regroup and get more information. But they can't escape the frantic and irrational citizens, most of whom are dangerously deranged.
Self pin for this afternoon
Good movie.
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Directed by Ray Milland, one of my favorite ham actors. Take a #2 ✏️ and paper into this classic. The hambone lines come fast and furious 🤣
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A very good movie but Youtube requires sign-in for age restrictions.
Youtube uses that age restriction sign-in a lot.
Starring and directed by Ray Milland.
Sounds good. I would have been about three when this film was made, so I probably have NOT seen it.
I like the sound of that. Friday show for my smart tv and youtube
I saw this flick back in the day. Ray Milland was a good actor …. Won the Academy Award In Billy Wilder’s The Lost Weekend before he started turning up in all these AIP cheapies. The Man with the X-Ray Eyes?!
The Man with the X-Ray Eyes 👀 It’s free on Tubi 😆👍
“Youtube uses that age restriction sign-in a lot.”
You tube is about tracking you. If there is no sign in then all they may have is an IP of your machine.
Once you login they tie everything that happens from that IP to you.
TO YOU.
Very good edgey movie from 1962.
Thanks for posting. The movie brings to mind another
‘awful’ movie, “This is Not A Test”; a movie with no-names
such as Ray Miland and Frankie Avalon. Still remember Miland
in the film “Frogs” (another ‘awful’ movie). However, did
enjoy the actor on screen and will never hold him accountable for ‘awfulness’. Afterall, he was in an all-time favorite, “The Uninvited” (1944).
Ya think?
Yep saw it in the theater as a kid. Have seen it a couple of times since over the next 60 plus years. Ouch!
Regardless of all the variations of how things would play out in an apocalyptic situation, the one thing you can be sure of is it will never play out the way you expect.
Interesting that the movie never mentioned which country nuked the U.S.........Lithuania?
“Starring and directed by Ray Milland.”
One of my favorite “B” movies.
I have read that Milland was drunk during much of the filming.
In the novel “On The Beach” with a similar theme, WWIII begins in 1963/64 with a nuclear attack by Albania on Italy, and then escalated with the bombing of the United States and the United Kingdom by Egypt. Because the aircraft used in these attacks were obtained from the Soviet Union, the Soviets were mistakenly blamed, triggering a retaliatory strike on the Soviet Union by NATO.
There is also an attack by the Soviets on the People's Republic of China, which may have been a response to a Chinese attack aimed at occupying Soviet industrial areas near the Chinese border. Most, if not all, of the bombs included cobalt to enhance their radioactive properties.
In the movie version, unlike the novel, no one is assigned blame for starting the war, which attributes global annihilation to fear compounded by accident or misjudgment.
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