This Is Not a Test

Late one night on a rural road in the western US, a policeman sets up a roadblock and begins stopping all traffic. When several cars and a big truck have stopped, he tells everyone why: a nuclear attack on the US appears to be underway, and since they have the truck there, their best chance at survival is to use it as a bomb shelter. Time is short and tensions in the small group quickly rise.

Genre : DramaActionThrillerScience Fiction

Runtime : 73 mins

Release Date : 1962-01-01

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It has always intrigued me how cinema reflects its times--nothing demonstrates that to me more passionately than the doomsday scenario of nuclear apocalypse in movies, particularly during the times of extreme political crisis between the USA and then-USSR in both the 60's and 80's. 'This Is Not ...

KING OF THE SWITCH ENDINGS A highway patrolman stops a few cars for an emergency. "This is Not a Test" refers to that emergency. It isn't a test. It's a real nuclear attack. A motley group of seemingly ordinary people deal with the fact that they are in what they consider "Ground Zero", smack dab...

I suppose the writing was on the wall for this with the opening titles. No mention at all of the acting "talent" but at least four of Frederic Gadette who appears to have done all but make the coffee. The plot sees a single police officer "Colter" (Seamon Glass) being charged with operating a roadb...

Cast

Seamon Glass

(Deputy Sheriff Dan Colter)

Thayer Roberts

(Jacob Elliot Saunders)

Aubrey Martin

(Juney)

Mary Morlas

(Cheryl Hudson)

Michael Greene

(Joe Baragi)

Alan Austin

(Al Weston)

Carol Kent

(Karen Barnes)

Norman Winston

(Sam Barnes)

Ron Starr

(Clint Delany)

Don Spruance

(Peter)