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Duck and Cover (1952) -- A grinning monkey sitting in a tree dangles a lit firecracker from a fishing pole just over the head of an unwary turtle...

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6.3/10   278 votes
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7 January 1952 (USA) more
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A grinning monkey sitting in a tree dangles a lit firecracker from a fishing pole just over the head of an unwary turtle... more | add synopsis
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1 win more
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Surreal and stupid more (13 total)

Cast

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Leo M. Langlois ... Tony - Boy on bike (uncredited)
Ray J. Mauer ... Civil Defense worker (uncredited)
Robert Middleton ... Narrator (uncredited)
Carl Ritchie ... Bert (voice) (uncredited)
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9 min
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Revealing mistakes: The man on the tractor makes no attempt to shut off the tractor before jumping down from it and landing right in front of the rear wheel, yet the tractor is at a complete stop when he hits the ground. more
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Featured in Atomic Scare Films Vol. 1 (1996) (V) more
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7 out of 8 people found the following review useful.
Surreal and stupid, 30 September 2002
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Author: Unicorn-9 from Canada

Truly one of the most mind-bogglingly surreal movies I've ever seen, teaching kids that all they need to do to survive a nuclear war is duck down and cover their heads; and quite rightly satirised in the 'South Park' TV show. Watching it today it's hard to imagine that the US government could have made it as a serious training film, or that American teachers could have shown it to their kids with a straight face.

More seriously, I imagine that when they first began planning the movie they were probably still in the A-bomb era where it might have made a difference: the damage from such a bomb was fairly localised so a single bomb in a major city would kill only a small fraction of the population... but by the time it was being shown to kids H-bombs could obliterate an entire city in one go, and 'Duck and Cover' tactics were utterly pointless.

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