This Is Not A Test (1962) 01 of 07

[gahrzahk]

Creig McRitchie: remember that name, for the most bizarre, syncopated lounge jazz made for public service films.

[justJunya]

Anyone else wondering why a truck marked "Discount World" is hauling minks, diamond tiaras, and caviar?

[celticlofts]

@justJunya: Because the people who used to own the minks, diamond tiaras and caviar just got robbed.

[justJunya]

@celticlofts Ah ha - that makes sense! The driver speaks with a New York-New Jersey Italian-American accent, and is headed to North Beach - the Italian section of San Francisco. And we know that, in Hollywood movies, Italian=Mafia. Plus, the story reveals that his morals are rather loose. So it all fits.

It would be a great service to humanity to fill in other holes in what must be one of the most sparse plots in Hollywood history.

[georgebrown91]

@justJunya This Is Fucking Tedious!

[drystyx]

This was a surprisingly great film. You don't need a big budget when you have a great script. Smart work here.

[DocWyoming]

@drystyx Yes, I agree. I remember seeing this on "Something Weird". The weird thing was that it was good.

[tirckyspeed]

I rember seeing this on off beat cineame

[FireArmsResQ]

Love this movie!

I discovered it by buying those $1 Walmart DVDs!

I love disaster movies because it is interesting to see how people really would react.

[invincibleironman3]

@FireArmsResQ ..Panic in Year Zero, No Blade of Grass, Soylent Green, and of course, The Day After. Another little known gem was HBO's Miracle Mile with Anthony Edwards.

[luridplanet]

lol - that cop is the biggest jerk of all time "grab those flares out the trunk and set them up on the road!"

[handsupbud]

There's just something unreal about this whole movie,kinda like it's all made up or somethin.

[billabongodrum]

what great dialogue

[siriuslybloo]

Of course, when a nuclear bomb is going to explode, the best thing for the police to do is be incredibly disrespectful and nasty to a bunch of random motorists. Gotta love 1962! Thanks for posting this!

[wmaught7]

Over 45 years ago, my mother described a movie she watched on the late show. Decades later I found it in a movie guide and can watch it here! Beyond belief! Anyhow, the star of this underrated little gem, Seamon Glass(the deputy), is credited with a bit part in the movie Deliverance!

[johnrunion]

@wmaught7 he also played a mountain man type in another tale of nuclear apocalypse : damnation alley.

[ottselguy]

it really gives you a feeling about how the world was right before th bombs dropped in fallout game world i have the old movies playing well i pla

[sadhubabacity]

i love this movie been searching for it forever!!!!

[jesshooker]

classic underrated movie

[FireArmsResQ]

@jesshooker

Hell do people even know about this movie

Interesting movie and it was done on a budget of what appears to be $17!