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Day the World Ended (1955)

Day the World Ended poster
Directed by
Roger Corman
Genre
horror film, science fiction film, disaster film, post-apocalyptic film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 18m
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 73 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

After an atomic war wipes out most of humanity, a small group of survivors band together in a remote house. They face threats from a radioactive mutant creature and tensions among themselves.

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What happens

Day the World Ended is a 1955 American independently made black-and-white post-apocalyptic science fiction film, produced and directed by Roger Corman, that stars Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, Adele Jergens, Paul Birch and Mike Connors. Chet Huntley of NBC, later of The Huntley-Brinkley Report, served as the film's narrator. It was released by American Releasing Corporation (later American International Pictures) on December 8, 1955 as a double feature with The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues. The film's story centers on a heroic scientist who, with a small band of other survivors, faces off against a radioactive mutation following an atomic war that appears to have destroyed most of human civilization. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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