Kiss Me Deadly (1955), Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise (2015), The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958), Insignificance (1985), The Giant Behemoth (1959), The Atomic Man (1955), Radar Men From the Moon (1952) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Atomic Age movies.
Storyline: A frightened woman is running barefoot on a highway, trying desperately to flag a car. After several cars pass her by, the woman sees another car approaching, and to make sure either the car stops, or, she's killed, she stands in the path of the oncoming car. Private Investigator Mike Hammer is the one at the wheel, and after almost hitting the woman, he tells her to get in. The woman's name is Christina Bailey. She is obviously on the run, being barefoot and wearing nothing but a trench coat, and the scent of fear. Whoever was after her eventually catches up with them. Christina has information they want, but dies while being questioned. The killers fake an accident by pushing Hammer's car off the road, but he survives, waking up in hospital two weeks later. As Mike starts to investigate Christina's death, he's told by the police to stay out of it, but, the hard-nosed private investigator proceeds anyways. Little did he know that Christina's secret would lead to death and destruction.
Plot Keywords: stranger, girlfriend, police captain, scientist, roommate, uneasy, chilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Experimental documentary that looks at the Hiroshima nuclear bomb and its legacy.
Plot Keywords: politician, japanese man, japanese woman, american, russian, soldier, somber ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Three Indians are murdered. Each was wearing a medallion when he died. Together the medallions form a puzzle whose solution points to gold.
Plot Keywords: scientist, fiancée, doctor, general, commander, secretary of state, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Four 1950's cultural icons (Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio and Senator Joseph MacCarthy) who conceivably could have met and probably didn't, fictionally do in this modern fable of post-WWII America. Visually intriguing, the film has a fluid progression of flash-backs and flash-forwards centering on the fictional Einstein's current observations, childhood memories and apprehensions for the future.—Jeanne Baker <jbaker@erim.org>
Plot Keywords: physicist, starlet, baseball player, senator, native american, witty, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The dumping of radioactive waste in the ocean disturbs a prehistoric monster than can project electric shocks and radioactive beams. After terrorizing the English coast, it is discovered that if the creature is destroyed with conventional weaponry it would spread a dangerous amount radioactive contamination over the entire country, with this fact preventing the military from attacking the monster as it nears London.—Jeremy Lunt <durlinlunt@acadia.net>
Plot Keywords: dinosaur, marine biologist, monster, professor, doctor, submarine officer, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An atomic scientist is found floating in a river with a bullet in his back and a radioactive halo around his body. The radioactivity has put him seven-and-a-half seconds ahead of us in time. He teams up with a reporter to stop his evil double from destroying his experiments in artificial tungsten.—Marty McKee <mmckee@wkio.com>
Plot Keywords: nuclear physicist, evil twin, photographer, journalist, detective, bleak, chilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Strategic targets on Earth are being destroyed by an unknown weapon. Government security head Henderson suspects it's an "atomic ray" originating from the moon! He assigns Commando Cody, scientist and man of action with a secret flying suit, to investigate. Soon, Cody is battling Earth thugs in the pay of Krog the moon man and making trips in his experimental rocket to the moon itself, in a perilous and all but singlehanded effort to thwart the planned invasion of Earth.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: government agent, scientist, commando, mastermind, brash, campy, confident ...
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