I taped Split Second when it was shown on BBC2 one afternoon recently and was pleased I did.
Three convicts escape from prison and after picking up a motley collection of people as hostages, they end up in a ghost town in the Nevada Desert. What they don't know until it is announced on the radio is that this area is an atomic bomb test site with the bomb due to go off at 6am the following morning. When everyone wakes up early that morning, things get worse when the time of the test is brought forward by an hour, which gives them little time to escape. The people split into two groups with the two surviving convicts and the unhappily married woman trying to escape but don't survive and the rest going into the safety of a cave and survive.
This is an excellent Atomic Age thriller, which was well underway when it was made in 1953.
The cast includes an excellent performance from Stephen McNally and Jan Sterling, Alexis Smith and Richard Egan.
This movie is certainly one to look for. Excellent stuff.
Rating: 4 stars out of 5.
Three convicts escape from prison and after picking up a motley collection of people as hostages, they end up in a ghost town in the Nevada Desert. What they don't know until it is announced on the radio is that this area is an atomic bomb test site with the bomb due to go off at 6am the following morning. When everyone wakes up early that morning, things get worse when the time of the test is brought forward by an hour, which gives them little time to escape. The people split into two groups with the two surviving convicts and the unhappily married woman trying to escape but don't survive and the rest going into the safety of a cave and survive.
This is an excellent Atomic Age thriller, which was well underway when it was made in 1953.
The cast includes an excellent performance from Stephen McNally and Jan Sterling, Alexis Smith and Richard Egan.
This movie is certainly one to look for. Excellent stuff.
Rating: 4 stars out of 5.