Atomic Attack - PT6
Atomic Attack - PT6
Atomic Attack - PT6: Great 1950's melodrama about what an atomic bomb attack could do to a typical middle-class American family. Taking its cue from "Duck and Cover", this film suggests that not only can an atomic bomb attack on 12 major cities in the US be fought and survived, but that the quiet New York suburb where this story takes place (only 70 miles from ground zero), can be almost totally unaffected and back to normal within days after such an attack.
Atomic Attack - PT6
Title card reading: "The Fifth Day". MS woman standing in her living room, leaning over portable radio set on table, listing to broadcast, air raid sirens being to blare, the frightened woman turns & raises her hand to her mouth while looking in an upward direction, the crabby drunk woman (bomb refugee) who has been boarding in her home stumbles into the room, the women have a few words & the drunk retreats back to her bedroom, pulling at her hair & slamming the door. MS woman standing in hallway as her panicked teenage daughter runs down the stairs, frightened by the sight of unfamiliar men at the back door, mother & daughter move to the kitchen to investigate.
Atomic Attack - PT6
MS mother & daughter entering the kitchen. MS door with chain lock rattling back & forth as men outside try to break in. MS mother & daughter shouting for the men to go away. MS door as mother & daughter get closer, an older man comes out of the basement and yells for the men to leave. MS as teenage girl comes out of the basement with a rifle, the old man takes the gun & warns the intruders once again, man moves his way to window, points & shoots. MS frightened mother & daughter holding each other tightly, the intruders retreat.
Atomic Attack - PT6
MS/MCU older man standing in kitchen with riffle as a thankful teenage girl approaches, there are various exchanges between man, woman & daughter as dialog explains why the man has been hiding in the basement, he is a wanted man due to his role in the development of the bomb, the girl has been hiding him in the cellar to evade capture.
Atomic Attack - PT6
MS mother exiting kitchen to see who is knocking at the front door, her teenage daughter pleads with her to let the old man she's been hiding in the basement stay, woman meets civil service man in jumpsuit in the living room, he asks about the gunshots, she suggests that she was the one who fired, woman quickly escorts the man out the front door as she thanks him for stopping by. MS daughter & old man standing in the kitchen doorway, waiting to hear if mother had turned him in. MS woman at door stating that she hadn't. MS daughter & old man joining woman in the living room, MCU as they discuss how to keep the identity of the old man a secret.