

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
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.