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2 May 1953 (USA)
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Steel Your Nerves! Here's excitement that will smash them! more
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Sam Hurley, "Nation's No. 1 killer" with a cold contempt for "heroes," escapes prison with two companions...
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Beautifully bleak and sweetly viscous.
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Stephen McNally | ... | Sam Hurley |
 | Alexis Smith | ... | Kay Garven |
| Jan Sterling | ... | Dorothy 'Dottie' Vale |
| Keith Andes | ... | Larry Fleming |
| Arthur Hunnicutt | ... | Asa Tremaine |
| Paul Kelly | ... | Bart Moore |
| Robert Paige | ... | Arthur Ashton |
| Richard Egan | ... | Doctor Neal Garven |
| Frank DeKova | ... | Dummy (as Frank de Kova) |
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85 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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Plot holes: Considering the level of security around the test site, including the number of roadblocks set up to keep people away, how did Dr. Garven manage to drive into the ghost town seemingly unimpeded?
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Larry Fleming:
You don't think very much of people, do you?
Sam Hurley: I don't think very much of anything.
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Sam Hurley: I don't think very much of anything.
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Referenced in Skullduggery (1983)
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Beautifully bleak and sweetly viscous, this tale of looming doom set near an atomic bomb test site touches the exposed nerves of the early 50's paranoia and fear. A kind of twisted take on Hitchcock's "Lifeboat" the desparate characters are placed in a desert ghost town with the explosive clock ticking. There is a charged atmosphere and undertow of sadistic sexuality that hangs about many of the scenes.