Frankie Avalon,
Jean Hagen,
Joan Freeman,
Mary Mitchell,
Ray Milland
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While on a fishing trip, Harry Baldwin (Ray Milland) 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...( read more
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DVD Release Date: November 29, 2005
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August 16, 2009For a movie about the apocalypse, Panic in Year Zero came across as claustrophobic. It's reasonably groundbreaking for its time on a gruesomeness level with a rape scene and by actually showing dead bodies. This movie reminded me of a modern zombie movie without the zombies. Alth...( read more)
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July 11, 2009The Grapes of Wrath meets Xenophon's Persian Expedition, with healthy amounts of Cold-War propaganda mixed in, and diluted down into a campy 1950's morality tale about what it means to be civilized.
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March 26, 2009Have to give this one 4 1/2 stars, its a great survival movie. And they snuck Frankie Avalon in there on me. And with actors with the first name of Rex, Willis, O.Z., How can a movie be that bad. This movie came out right around the time of the Cuban Missile crisis, and I am su...( read more)
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September 4, 2009This was really pretty good for an old '62 black and white about a family who does what they have to do to survive after a nuclear bombing in the U.S. It was interesting enough to keep my attention and was pretty good except for some of the musical score which didn't seem to fit...( read more)
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January 26, 2009A family during his week-end trip has to face an 'extreme' situation: there's the beginning of nuclear bombing ! Society and Order are collapsing. Other humans (young teddy boys are a main danger ,for sure) they are a continous obstacle in the race for survival of the Family. ...( read more)
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September 29, 2008Nuclear war causes society's morals to disentegrate quickly. It's a post apocolyptic world in "year zero" when everyone is still supposed to be civilized. Lots of looting and raping. Fathers teaching their sons to use guns to their advantage - gas stations raising their prices...( read more)
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April 1, 2008Aside from the Lex Baxter score, Panic in Year Zero is top notch. Watching this it was a bit of a shocker seeing the adult themes it presented. It was a shocker because your not used to seeing this type of 1962 fare with rape in it. And thats were the score fails. Lex Baxter uses...( read more)
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November 16, 2007"Panic" is a great post-apocalyptic paranoid nuclear fantasy. You can't beat a nuclear war flick that's got Frankie Avalon in it! It's actually a pretty tense story, or at least it would be if they didn't daddy-o beach party music playing during all the action sequences. Were ...( read more)
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