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This Is Not a Test (1962)

This Is Not a Test poster
Directed by
Fredric Gadette
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 13m
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 25 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of strangers is stranded on a road during a nuclear attack drill. They must decide whether to follow the rules or break into a fallout shelter as the threat of real war looms.

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What happens

This Is Not a Test is a 1962 American low-budget science fiction film directed by Fredric Gadette. Produced at the height of the Cold War, the film was one of a number of productions of the late 1950s and early 1960s based upon the premise of the outbreak of nuclear war. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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