Larry Gates plays Dr. Stockton, an amiable small town physician who is having a dinner party one night with his friends and neighbors. Things are fine until a surprise radio announcement is made that a mysterious unidentified object is on its way to the U.S., and residents should take shelter. The good doctor does have a bomb shelter ready for himself, his wife and son, but no one else, which doesn't sit well with his panicking neighbors, who have no shelter, and in fact want Stockton's, even if they have to bash down the door to get in... Chilling and all-too believable account of human beings under pressure, and how quickly they came become uncivilized is an underrated gem, with a final character summation that says it all...
Review of The Shelter
