skippercollecto
June 12th, 2004, 08:54 PM
As a child in the early 70s, I started watching an old black-and-white movie on the local channel one evening, and my mother said it was too scary and made me turn it off. It was about a family driving in the desert when they got the announcement over the radio that there was a nuclear attack. You heard the air raid sirens in the background. The family continued driving around for a while, trying to find out more, at which point my mother intervened and I went to bed.
So of course this movie has haunted me for 30 years. I suspect that if I'd been able to watch the thing in its entirety I'd have forgotten about it.
I know what this movie ISN'T: It's not "Panic in the Year Zero," with Ray Milland and Frankie Avalon, because that was on TCM several months ago and I watched it. It did not have the scenes that I remember.
I just purchased a DVD of a 1962 film called "This is Not a Test" (which didn't have any actors I'd ever heard of). The synopsis of the film sounded like a possibility, but again, after I watched it, it wasn't what I was looking for.
So what DID I start to watch that night?
Mary
P.S. I know it wasn't an episode of Twilight Zone or Outer Limits, because I remember it being a movie.
So of course this movie has haunted me for 30 years. I suspect that if I'd been able to watch the thing in its entirety I'd have forgotten about it.
I know what this movie ISN'T: It's not "Panic in the Year Zero," with Ray Milland and Frankie Avalon, because that was on TCM several months ago and I watched it. It did not have the scenes that I remember.
I just purchased a DVD of a 1962 film called "This is Not a Test" (which didn't have any actors I'd ever heard of). The synopsis of the film sounded like a possibility, but again, after I watched it, it wasn't what I was looking for.
So what DID I start to watch that night?
Mary
P.S. I know it wasn't an episode of Twilight Zone or Outer Limits, because I remember it being a movie.