While on a fishing trip, Harry Baldwin and his family hear an explosion and realize that Los Angeles has been leveled by a nuclear attack. Looters and killers are everywhere. Escaping to the hills with his family, he sets about the business of surviving in a world where, he knows, the old ideals of humanity will be the first casualties.
Acting
Ray Milland's unhinged everyman descent
Direction
Milland directing himself into paranoid fury
Production
Gritty low-budget apocalypse on LA's actual roads
Director
Ray Milland
Ray Milland
Harry Baldwin
Jean Hagen
Ann Baldwin
Frankie Avalon
Rick Baldwin
Mary Mitchel
Karen Baldwin
Joan Freeman
Marilyn Hayes
Richard Bakalyan
Carl
Richard Garland
Ed Johnson
Willis Bouchey
Dr. Powell Strong
Neil Burstyn
Andy
O.Z. Whitehead
Hogan
Russ Bender
Harkness
Shary Marshall
Bobbie Johnson
Byron Morrow
Evacuee from Newhall
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in just two weeks on a $300,000 budget, using real locations around Los Angeles that would be evacuated during a real attack.
Released during the Cuban Missile Crisis, audiences genuinely feared this was their near future; some drive-ins reportedly had Civil Defense pamphlets handed out.
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