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IN YEAR ZERO |
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| Italian Title: IL GIORNO DOPO LA FINE DEL MONDO | ||||
| Produced: 1962 - USA, AIP, b/w, 95 min. | ||||
| Director: Ray Milland | ||||
| Screenplay: Jay Simms and John Morton | ||||
| Special Effects: Larry Butler, Pat Dinga | ||||
| Music: Les Baxter | ||||
| Cast: Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon, Mary Mitchel, Richard Bakalyan, Neil Nephew, Rex Holman, Joan Freeman, Richard Garland, O.Z. Whitehead, Willis Bouchey, Russ Bender, Kelton Crawford, Andrea Wools, Shary Marshall, Byron Morrow, Scott Peters, Hugh Sanders, Bud Slater | ||||
| On their way to a camping vacation, the Baldwin family miraculously escapes a nuclear attack on Los Angeles. They must now organize themselves, to survive in anarchy, and where violence has taken over. Ray Milland, who directed the film and played the role of Harry Baldwin, tells a tale of individualism, where it can seem acceptable to respond to violence with violence. The family is forced to steal in order to eat, and to isolate themselves from others, for their own safety. | ||||
| The violence comes to a climax, when the Baldwin son (Frankie Avalon) is shot and badly wounded, and the Baldwins must leave the protection and safety of the cave they have found, to get medical attention for their son. Help comes, when they meet an Army unit. The film poses interesting and deep psychological, ethical and moral dilemmas for the family and attempts to describe how most families might respond in these difficult situations. |
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| © | English version by Vince Mattaliano | |||
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