IN CELEBRATION OF THE END OF THE WORLD, TCM will run a block of films tomorrow:
7:00 AM 71 min
TV-PG horror Lost Missile, The (1958)
Scientists try to stop a mysterious missile from destroying the Earth.
Dir: William Berke Cast: Robert Loggia , Ellen Parker , Philip Pine .
71 min, TV-PG CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW: D: Lester Berke. Robert Loggia, Ellen Parker, Larry Kerr, Philip Pine. Super-hot alien missile circles Earth, setting fires and melting cities. Loggia races against time to destroy it before it reaches N.Y.C. Too cheap for its ideas, but Loggia is good. Ending is surprisingly downbeat.
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8:30 AM 1356096600 suspense Satan Bug, The (1965) buy dvd EXPAND
8:30 AM C- 115 min
TV-PG suspense Satan Bug, The (1965)
A mad millionaire bribes a scientist to steal a deadly virus.
Dir: John Sturges Cast: George Maharis , Richard Basehart , Anne Francis .
C- 115 min, TV-PG CLOSE widescreen Buy The DVD
John Sturges directed this sizzling suspenser about a nerve-racking chase to recover flasks of a lethal virus which were stolen from a government lab by a deranged and dangerous... more
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10:30 AM 1356103800 horror Last Man On Earth, The (1964) buy dvd EXPAND
10:30 AM 87 min
TV-PG horror Last Man On Earth, The (1964)
A deadly virus turns most of the world's population into blood-drinking ghouls.
Dir: Sidney Salkow Cast: Vincent Price , Franca Bettoja , Emma Danieli .
87 min, TV-PG CLOSE
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12:00 PM C- 91 min
TV-PG comedy Bed Sitting Room, The (1969)
A pregnant woman searches for love amidst the ruins of nuclear war.
Dir: Richard Lester Cast: Rita Tushingham , Ralph Richardson , Peter Cook .
C- 91 min, TV-PG , CC CLOSE
This one is rather weird!
2:00 PM 91 min
TV-PG horror Five (1951)
The five survivors of a nuclear war struggle to build new lives.
Dir: Arch Oboler Cast: William Phipps , Susan Douglas , James Anderson .
91 min, TV-PG , CC CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW: D: Arch Oboler. William Phipps, Susan Douglas, James Anderson, Charles Lampkin, Earl Lee. Intriguing, offbeat film by famed radio writer-director Oboler about the survivors of an atomic holocaust. Talky (and sometimes given to purple prose) but interesting. Filmed in and around Oboler's Frank Lloyd Wright house.
close captioned (1951) ON DVD Written, directed, and produced by Arch Oboler, "Five" (1951) refers to the number of survivors left on Earth after an atomic bomb wipes out the human race. After searching... more
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4:00 PM 1356123600 horror Panic in Year Zero (1962) EXPAND
4:00 PM 92 min
TV-14 horror Panic in Year Zero (1962)
A vacationing family tries to survive the aftermath of nuclear war.
Dir: Ray Milland Cast: Ray Milland , Jean Hagen , Frankie Avalon .
92 min, TV-14 CLOSE widescreen
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6:00 PM 1356130800 horror World, The Flesh, And The Devil, The (1959) buy dvd EXPAND
6:00 PM 95 min
TV-PG horror
One woman and two men are the only people left alive after a nuclear disaster.
Dir: Ranald MacDougall Cast: Harry Belafonte , Inger Stevens , Mel Ferrer .
95 min, TV-PG , CC CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW: D: Ranald MacDougall. Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer. Belafonte and Stevens are only survivors of worldwide nuclear accident; their uneasy relationship is jarred by arrival of Ferrer. Intriguing film starts well, bogs down halfway through, and presents ridiculous conclusion. Best scenes are at beginning, when Belafonte is alone in an impressively deserted Manhattan. CinemaScope.
REVIEW:
I have seen all but THE FIVE & intend to watch most of them again.
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