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Movie, 1962 ... Ray Milland, Frankie Avalon

A sort of interesting tale. Family leaves early AM
on a mountain-country vacation, trailer in tow. A
couple hours later and the big bright flashes start
coming from the LA area.

This is not really a 'big movie' - but in this case
they didn't really pull any punches. The All-American
fam is quickly reduced to deception, robbery, assault,
paranoia, killings, just to survive the immediate
aftermath of WW3. They WANT to be honest and straight-up,
but the circumstances prevent it. It's a kinda grim tale.

In 1962 the USSR didn't have THAT many nukes - despite
pretending otherwise. This quickly changed, but '62
was '62. The film does not assert massive destruction
of all cities/infrastructure, just "key" cities, enough
to badly hurt and dust fallout over wide areas.

Oh, according to a later-appearing character, the USA
"wins" the war - but he doesn't seem very thrilled
about it - too much damage done, nobody really won.

There were many movies made about nuke war in the
latter 50s and through the 60s. Most were crap.
THIS one was a bit different.

Oh, NOT so different as to the role of women - Momma
only wants to drive straight back into the fallout
cloud to be "home" and look for Granny. She is NOT
portrayed as very savvy. Not a wimp, just not smart.

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