Bob PeryeaTHIS IS NOT A TEST (1962)
January 30th 2009 16:33
THIS IS NOT A TEST (1962) 9.0 OUT OF 10
Dir: Frederic Gadette
This film deserves a 9.0 for the ending alone. The way that this film ends is unlike most other films of its type at the time.
Deputy Dan Colter (Seamon Glass) receives instructions at 4 am to block some distant highway in California. He is not given many details, except that no cars are to pass either direction. Over the next little while several vehicles show up.
There's a grand father and his grand-daughter moving a truckload of chickens. There's a wild beat couple that drives up way too fast and way to drunk. (As they are questioned by the deputy, the man in the passenger seat makes a great crack about not being asleep, just being to chicken to ride with his eyes open.) There is a trucker who has a crazy, paranoid hitchhiker in the cab. There a few other people who show up as well.
So what makes this a great B movie? The acting is adequate, if not occasionally quite good. The writing is realistic. As the story progresses, the characters are told that there will be an air raid. Each reacts according the character that they started out as. The story is believable. If this situation were to actually, this is what one might expect from the local government. And then... the ending rocks.
See this movie! Don't read anything about it until you have seen it. Find this movie to see the best of the unsung b movie.
Here's a confession... my wife watched this movie a while back while I slept. I didn't get to see the ending until today. She was not only taken aback by the ending, she was even a bit traumatized (in the way that a good film will). She is not a fan of old movies, but this one and the score that it has can straight from her. If you knew her, you would know that that speaks volumes for the movie.
This is available on Digiview Entertainment and Mill Creek Entertainment. It's available in box sets as well as one single discs.
Here is part one of 7 of this movie. The entire movie is available online for free from RagnarokRetroStyle at Youtube.com.
Dir: Frederic Gadette
This film deserves a 9.0 for the ending alone. The way that this film ends is unlike most other films of its type at the time.
Deputy Dan Colter (Seamon Glass) receives instructions at 4 am to block some distant highway in California. He is not given many details, except that no cars are to pass either direction. Over the next little while several vehicles show up.
There's a grand father and his grand-daughter moving a truckload of chickens. There's a wild beat couple that drives up way too fast and way to drunk. (As they are questioned by the deputy, the man in the passenger seat makes a great crack about not being asleep, just being to chicken to ride with his eyes open.) There is a trucker who has a crazy, paranoid hitchhiker in the cab. There a few other people who show up as well.
So what makes this a great B movie? The acting is adequate, if not occasionally quite good. The writing is realistic. As the story progresses, the characters are told that there will be an air raid. Each reacts according the character that they started out as. The story is believable. If this situation were to actually, this is what one might expect from the local government. And then... the ending rocks.
See this movie! Don't read anything about it until you have seen it. Find this movie to see the best of the unsung b movie.
Here's a confession... my wife watched this movie a while back while I slept. I didn't get to see the ending until today. She was not only taken aback by the ending, she was even a bit traumatized (in the way that a good film will). She is not a fan of old movies, but this one and the score that it has can straight from her. If you knew her, you would know that that speaks volumes for the movie.
This is available on Digiview Entertainment and Mill Creek Entertainment. It's available in box sets as well as one single discs.
Here is part one of 7 of this movie. The entire movie is available online for free from RagnarokRetroStyle at Youtube.com.
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