Sunday 17 January 2021

This Is Not A Test (1962)


A low-budget minimalist, effective and suspenseful Cold War film with decent performances by a largely unknown cast. 


Directed by Fredric Gadette
Produced by Murray De Atley, Fredric Gadette
Written by Peter Abenheim, Fredric Gadette, Betty Lasky
Music by Greig McRitchie
Cinematography: Brick Marquard
Edited by Hal Dennis
Distributed by Allied Artists
Release date 1962
Running time: 73 minutes


Cast


Seamon Glass: Deputy Sheriff Dan Colter

Thayer Roberts: Jacob Elliot Saunders

Aubrey Martin: Juney

Mary Morlas: Cheryl Hudson

Michael Greene: Joe Baragi 

Alan Austin: Al Weston

Carole Kent: Karen Barnes 

Norman Winston (?): Sam Barnes

Ron Starr: Clint Delany

Don Spruance: Peter

James George Jnr; Norman Bishop; Ralph Manza; Jay Della; William Flaherty: The Looters

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Edited  by YouTube user The Nebula55 at;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1j120FfO6g&ab_channel=TheNebula55

From original video by Mike Shaver “Simulated Conelrad Report Spring 1962” at;
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzDMF75v38L7FKrNQzB0Y5w

It’s 4.00am on a lonely stretch of mountain highway.
A policeman sets up a road block. 
Several cars and a truck are stopped……..
And the nightmare begins!!!

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