Atomic Attack - PT7
Atomic Attack - PT7
Atomic Attack - PT7: 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 - PT7
Title card reading: "The Sixth Day". MS two grade school aged girls dressed in mother's over-sized hats & dresses giggling & dancing around the living room as teen aged sister shakes her hips to the up-beat music playing on the radio, the crabby drunk woman (bomb refugee) who has been boarding in their home walks into the scene yelling at the girls for being too loud, the children's mother comes in defending their actions. MS mother & drunk woman yelling at each other in the hallway, high stress & cabin fever are getting the best of them. MS inside bedroom as woman of the house enters to have words with the second female refugee border in her home, a woman who is severely depressed and can't get out of bed "And you, lying there all day like a stone...", the three release their frustration & calm down a bit, there is surprise on the women s faces as the telephone (which has been out of service) begins to ring.
Atomic Attack - PT7
MS woman running down hallway to answer ringing telephone, her two female borders & teen aged daughter stand by intensely, waiting to hear the news of the caller, the look on the woman's face tells it all, bad news as she hangs up the receiver walks like a grief stricken Zombie to take a seat on the couch. MCU woman's face as she tells her audience that the city has been destroyed by the bomb. MS pan as elderly man walks the grief stricken woman to her room, there is realization by everyone (her daughters included) that her husband is dead. Fade to black as dramatic plays.