Five [1951] (DVD)

Description: Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy / Theatrical Release: 1951 / Unrated / Director: Arch Oboler / Actors: William Phipps, ... more

Five [1951] (DVD) ... Susan Douglas Rubes, James Anderson... / Features of the DVD: NTSC / The world is destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. Only five Americans survive, including a pregnant woman, a neo-Nazi, a black man and a bank clerk. The five fight each other, fall in love, and act really depressed a lot.

Newest Review: ... just refers to "it" as though he can't even bring himself to either say baby or pregnant. After telling her the ... more

... world and everyone in it are dead they both hear a car horn beeping and run to the road to find 2 more men in a jeep who turn out to be Oliver P. Barnstable (who was a former bank cashier) and Charles (who I assumed isn't introduced to the pregnant white lady on account of him being a Negro but was possibly a security guard or commissionaire judging by his unform) who both survived the bombs because they'd been locked in the banks vault. We don't find out Charles' name until a little later that evening and he polite...more

Price Comparison for Five [1951] (DVD)

	Five [DVD] [1951] [Region 1] [US Import][NTSC] Release Date: 2009 - 02 - 03, Last Update 15.12.2009 06:06	£ 7.37

Five [DVD] [1951] [Region 1] [US Import][NTSC]
Release Date: 2009 - 02 - 03,

Last Update 15.12.2009 06:06

£ 7.37

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Five [1951] (DVD): Five go mad after the apocalypse (1777 words)
by - written on 05/03/09 (Very useful, 53 readings)
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This is a 50's B&W movie "a story about the day after tomorrow" according to the helpful graphic displayed over images of nuclear detonations and it also states "The deadly wind passeth over it and it is gone; And the place thereof shall know it no more" (from Psalm 103:15-16, it seems even our biblical ancestors were obsessed by thoughts of our own self destruction). Global landmarks are shown to appear & disappear in clouds with screams echoing in the background to clearly illustrate this was a global conflict effecting ALL nations equally. Our cameras then zoom in to the figure of a solitary woman staggering exhausted in the ... Read the complete review

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