{"product_id":"atomic-attack-motorola-television-hour","title":"Atomic Attack (Motorola Television Hour)","description":"On May 18, 1954, \u003ci\u003eThe Motorola Television Hour\u003c\/i\u003e presented \u003ci\u003eAtomic Attack\u003c\/i\u003e, a gripping portrayal of a suburban family struggling to survive after a nuclear bomb is dropped on U.S. soil. Fifty miles away from a decimated New York City, the Mitchell family are trapped inside their house, with looters and poisonous radioactive fallout right outside their door. As the hours drag on, their nerves are stretched to the breaking point...as they realize that not all of them will survive this holocaust. \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eAtomic Attack\u003c\/i\u003e was produced in conjunction with the Office of Civil Defense, and opens with the disclaimer, \"The happenings that will now follow on your screen \u003ci\u003emight\u003c\/i\u003e be taking place in a suburban community some 50 miles from New York...but are entirely fictitious, of course.\" It is directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Ralph Nelson (\u003ci\u003eRequiem for a Heavyweight\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLilies of the Field\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCharly\u003c\/i\u003e) and features an all-star cast. Versatile actress Phyllis Thaxter had a long career, beginning opposite Spencer Tracy in the WWII picture \u003ci\u003eThirty Seconds Over Tokyo\u003c\/i\u003e (1944) and ending as Clark Kent's adopted mother in \u003ci\u003eSuperman: The Movie\u003c\/i\u003e (1978). Patty McCormack is best known as the homicidal child in Mervyn LeRoy's \u003ci\u003eThe Bad Seed\u003c\/i\u003e (1956). Character actor Robert Keith was in two of Marlon Brando's standout pictures, \u003ci\u003eThe Wild One\u003c\/i\u003e (1953) and \u003ci\u003eGuys and Dolls\u003c\/i\u003e (1955), and had a memorable role in one of the most popular episodes of \u003ci\u003eThe Twilight Zone\u003c\/i\u003e, \"The Masks\" (1964). A young Walter Matthau appears a year before his film debut in \u003ci\u003eThe Kentuckian\u003c\/i\u003e (1955). A decade later, he would star in another film about a nuclear crisis, \u003ci\u003eFail Safe\u003c\/i\u003e (1964).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003ePLUS BONUS SHORTS:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eOPERATION DOORSTEP (1953):\u003c\/b\u003e A haunting Civil Defense film in which two houses in Yucca Flats, NV (populated entirely by frighteningly lifelike mannequins from J.C. Penny) are subjected to an open-air atomic blast. The parts of the houses most affected are emphasized in order to get viewers to avoid those rooms in the event of an attack -- but the complete disregard for the dangers of radioactive fallout meant the government declared this film obsolete in 1959, recalling all copies from schools. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eTHE ATOM AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE (1953):\u003c\/b\u003e An Encyclopedia Britannica film on the (seemingly benign) effects that radioactivity has on plants and animals. A rat is fed radioactive table sugar, and doesn't seem to mind. You might want to avoid that nuclear-saturated corn, however.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alpha Video","offers":[{"title":"DVD","offer_id":45802751590550,"sku":"089218807298","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0703\/9621\/5446\/files\/089218807298.jpg?v=1762202303","url":"https:\/\/moviezyng.com\/products\/atomic-attack-motorola-television-hour","provider":"Movie Zyng","version":"1.0","type":"link"}