Rick
Richard Denning
Rick
Day the World Ended
“ATTACKED... by a creature from hell!”
4.9
1955
1h 19m
HorrorScience Fiction
Director: Roger Corman
Overview
After a nuclear attack, an unlikely group of survivors, including a geologist, a crook and his moll, and a prospector, find temporary shelter in the remote-valley home of a survivalist and his beautiful daughter, but soon have to deal with the spread of radioactivity - and its effects on animal life, including humans.
Trailer
The Day the World Ended ≣ 1955 ≣ Trailer
Cast
Louise Madison
Lori Nelson
Louise Madison
Jim Madison
Paul Birch
Jim Madison
Tony Lamont
Mike Connors
Tony Lamont
Ruby
Adele Jergens
Ruby
Pete
Raymond Hatton
Pete
Radek
Paul Dubov
Radek
Contaminated Man
Jonathan Haze
Contaminated Man
Mutant
Paul Blaisdell
Mutant
Nelson - Louise's Fiancée in Framed Photograph (uncredited)
Roger Corman
Nelson - Louise's Fiancée in Framed Photograph (uncredited)
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Chet Huntley
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Reviews
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I really enjoyed this a lot more than I had anticipated. Early Corman films are great fun to watch, as he's just bursting with ideas and is filled with reckless abandon. The film would make an intriguing twin-bill with Vincent Price's 'Last Man on Earth' for a fine night's viewing of post-apocalyptic mayhem...
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Former sailor and father, "Jim" (Paul Birch) and his daughter "Lori" (Louise Maddison) are all set to hunker down and sit out the aftermath of a nuclear attack when two folks arrive at their door. He is all for ignoring it - they have limited resources - but she's a bit of a reckless goody-goody and so admits "Tony" (Mike Connors) and his girlfriend "Ruby" (Adele Jergens). Turns out he's a bit of a gangster, she's his moll and he also has a wandering eye. Luckily, "Rick" (Richard Denning) shows up with a man on death's door and a craving for raw meat! Though there is some good news as the radioactivity seems to be abating, but "Lori" - when she's not fending off the unwanted attentions of "Tony" - is starting to hear a voice. Something is trying to communicate with her. Maybe it's the ghost of the writer who died of boredom whilst writing the script? There's a great deal of it, and that really drags the pace of this into the doldrums. The story itself shows mankind in none too kind a light, but that's the way it has been contrived. Quite why "Tony" and his bejewelled gal would have been anywhere near this remote lakeside house is anyone's guess. The denouement, though never in doubt, merely confirmed what I thought about "Lori" all along - a charm free and rather impulsive character who, well... It's not really sci-fi, more a low budget romantic thriller that you'll never remember watching.
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