rab@cdcvax.UUCP (Roger Bielefeld) (09/23/83)
For several years, I have had an interest in films that attempt to give a picture of what things will be like after the big one is dropped on us. A few such films that come to mind are "Mad Max" and its sequel "The Road Warrior", "The Lathe of Heaven", and of course the recently re-released "A Boy and His Dog". Does anyone know of others? decvax!cwruecmp!cdcvax!rab
jvs@iwu1d.UUCP (09/23/83)
There was a post-holocaust film on TV a couple of months ago called "Damnation Ally". It stared Jan Michal Vincet and some other big name star whose name I don't recall at the moment (it might of been George Segal). This film was released in theatres under a differant name but I don't know what it was. This movie also starred killer cockroaches. John V. Smith
tgd@clyde.UUCP (Thomas G. Dennehy) (09/23/83)
Another post-holocaust film was "Damnation Alley" with George
Peppard and Jan-Michael Vincent. ABC Circle Films has one
upcoming called "The Day After" starring Jason Robards. I
think it's going to be on the tube rather than in the theaters.
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Tom Dennehy ATTBL Whippany {clyde!tgd}ttb@iwsl1.UUCP (09/24/83)
One old (but good) post-holocaust film was "On the Beach". The only
actor I can remember from it is Fred Astaire. I would guess its
release date about 1960.
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Tom Butlerrba-dx@allegra.UUCP (09/24/83)
I saw 'Damnation Ally(or was it Alley?)' in the theaters about 8 years ago. 'Damnation Ally' was released under this name as I remember it. For some reason, I have always remembered this post-holocaust movie. Luv those killer roaches, Danny Espinoza
brucec@tekecs.UUCP (Bruce Cohen) (09/24/83)
There are also the two versions of the Richard Matheson book "I Am Legend." The first one, made in the middle fifties, starred Vincent Price (I can't remember the title). The more recent version was called "The Omega Man," and starred Charlton Heston. Some others which I remember very hazily: "Panic in Year Zero" plus a sequel, I think "The World, the Flesh, and the Devil" oh, of course - "On the Beach" Bruce Cohen UUCP: ...!teklabs!tekecs!brucec CSNET: tekecs!brucec@tektronix ARPA: tekecs!brucec.tektronix@rand-relay
russell@cmcl2.UUCP (09/25/83)
#R:cdcvax:-11700:cmcl2:7700003:000:302 cmcl2!russell Sep 25 13:02:00 1983 For a black-comedy view of a post WW-III England see: The Bed Sitting Room (British, 1969) Director: Richard Lester With: Peter Cook Michael Hordern Spike Milligan Dudley Moore Sir Ralph Richardson Rita Tushingham Bill Russell UUCP: ...!floyd!cmcl2!russell (212) 460-7292 ARPA: Russell@NYU -- Bill Russell UUCP: ...!floyd!cmcl2!russell (212) 460-7292 ARPA: Russell@NYU
davies@uiuccsb.UUCP (09/26/83)
#R:iwu1d:-13600:uiuccsb:10000010:000:75 uiuccsb!davies Sep 25 15:48:00 1983 "Damnation Alley" was based on the book by the same name by Roger Zelasny.
hstrop@mhuxt.UUCP (09/26/83)
How about "Panic in the Year Zero"? mhuxt!hstrop
alle@ihuxb.UUCP (Allen England) (09/26/83)
>There was a post-holocaust film on TV a couple of months ago called >"Damnation Ally". It stared Jan Michal Vincet and some other big name star >whose name I don't recall at the moment (it might of been George Segal). >This film was released in theatres under a differant name but I don't know >what it was. This movie also starred killer cockroaches. The title on TV was "Damnation Alley" and it had the same title when I saw it in the theatres several years ago. BTW, did anyone notice that the consoles used by the missile launchers in "Damnation Alley" were almost identical to those depicted in "Wargames"?? Coincidence or do the consoles *really* look that way? Allen England ihnp4!ihuxb!alle
alle@ihuxb.UUCP (Allen England) (09/26/83)
>There are also the two versions of the Richard Matheson book "I Am >Legend." The first one, made in the middle fifties, starred Vincent >Price (I can't remember the title). The more recent version was called >"The Omega Man," and starred Charlton Heston. Wasn't the Vincent Price version called "The Last Man on Earth"?? Allen England ihnp4!ihuxb!alle
rkp@drufl.UUCP (Pierce) (09/27/83)
I would highly recommend seeing "The Omega Man" with Charleton Heston. One of the best unknown movies I have ever seen.
rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (09/27/83)
Speaking of bad films and post-holocaust films in the same breath, does any know of a movie called "The Last Days of Man on Earth", which ends with the creation of a superbeing that you never see until the very end?
presley@mhuxj.UUCP (09/28/83)
Teenage Caveman, American International, 1958. Starring Robert Vaughn.
ms@ccieng5.UUCP (STEVANIAN Mark L. Stevans) (09/29/83)
As for post-holocaust films: How about "PANIC IN THE YEAR ZERO!" with Ray Milland as a survivalist father trying to protect his family. This might have been the first, from about 1955. Has a renowned soundtrack, and lots of sex and violence. Now there was one with George Peppard, a really stupid film about these survivors cruising through a deadly radiation zone in a supertank. I can't remember the name, but it was something appropriately macho, like "The Demon Machine", released about 1975. Mark "I don't even have a TV -- yet" Stevans seismo!rochester!ritcv!ccieng5!ms
wbpesch@ihuxp.UUCP (wbpesch) (09/29/83)
First, how can we forget the great folly of "Simian Cinema", the Apes Series (Remember Planet of Apes, Beneath the PotA, Conquest of tPotA, Escape from tPotA, and Battle for tPotA). Maybe a nomination also for a real bad series of films? "Things to Come", a 1934 film by Orson Wells, which anticipated a global war soon to start, which having no atomics in those days, was conducted by biological warfare, which did just as good of a job. The deadly disease was the "wandering disease", which gave its victims a compulsive urge to wander, and therefor spread the disease. Lastly, we have the film that we cannot remember the name of. It is a 50's vintage science fiction that deals with a jet plane that goes into a future not destroyed by atomic bombs but the future destroyed by the pollution of atomic power and radio-active wastes. The trip into the future is accomplished by time warp which is accomplished by breaking the speed of light. The speed of light broken by a jet plane, you say? Well, we have the intrinsic velocity of the jet plane, which was traveling east and therefor also received the velocity of the spin of the earth, and the velocity from the orbit of the earth around the sun, from the sun orbiting the center of the galaxy, and the galaxy orbiting the center of the universe. All of these velocities totaled exceeded the speed of light. (?) He eventually returns to he present to warn us of the dangers of atomic power.
wombat@uicsl.UUCP (09/30/83)
#R:iwu1d:-13600:uicsl:7600021:000:693 uicsl!wombat Sep 29 16:15:00 1983 Oh yeah, "The Last Days of Man on Earth." I remember little about the film itself (thank god) but it's right near the top of my list of five films I wish had never been released on an unsuspecting public. The Chambanana SF Assoc. showed it once because it was supposed to have been based on something by Michael Moorcock. Unfortunately, no one had ever seen it before we ordered it. What an absolutely incredible bomb. Another film to avoid is "Stalker", a Russian film based (loosely) on the Strugatski's "Roadside Picnic." They could have done so much with their material, but they really blew it. Reminded me of "Days of Heaven" in its pacing. Wombat ihnp4!uiucdcs!uicsl!wombat
ultra@cmcl2.UUCP (10/02/83)
#R:cdcvax:-11700:cmcl2:7700003:000:302 cmcl2!russell Sep 25 13:02:00 1983 For a black-comedy view of a post WW-III England see: The Bed Sitting Room (British, 1969) Director: Richard Lester With: Peter Cook Michael Hordern Spike Milligan Dudley Moore Sir Ralph Richardson Rita Tushingham Bill Russell UUCP: ...!floyd!cmcl2!russell (212) 460-7292 ARPA: Russell@NYU