To those who are screaming about there being a flat screen TV in the bar, It was a new-then technology of Fresnel lens magnifier screen which is built into a wall cabinet with a TV placed a distance behind the screen. It magnified the TV into what appeared as a large flat screen. The device was developed for venues such as bars and clubs or other public venues. They were expensive with etched and polished lens cuts in the plate glass. Only the rich had such for private home use. They were very inventive with the primitive tech available back then. :)
@@russellmooneyham3334 i was getting tired of the ignorant comments about it to. i was almost going to say something about it myself, but i was waiting for someone else to say something, so then i could come in and say "its about time" and then call everyone else ignorant, when i didn't even know it in the first place until i read his comment, like you. MORON!
It's weird the stuff you remember when you were a small child. In the early sixties my father worked for the power company as a field tech. I remember a night standing on our front porch with my mother who was waving to my father as he left for work. Two things were odd about this, I don't remember my father working at night and my mother was crying. It's like a snapshot of a memory. Years later as an adult I mentioned this memory to my parents. They were amazed that I could remember something at 3 years of age. My father said it was a night during the Cuban missile crisis and he had been called into work with all the other utility workers. He said everyone was worried we were going to get nuked. This was in Connecticut. I remember duck and cover drills in elementary school.
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I was born in 1953- I remember too- very tense time.
This movie has an extraordinary amount of actual war footage the likes of which might not have been seen, except, in this film. Real war; real bombs; real explosions; real death. Even in B & W it's hard to take, we've been at it so long. Worth reflecting on.
Wowzers I've never seen this movie before and your description is very good. I remember watching NBC news and the reporting on the Vietnam war. And as a child, we never had to get underneath our desks in case of war. I was born in the 50's, 1957. And in the very early 1960's during Kennedy's time in office, there was the Cubin missile crises where Cubin goods were no longer allowed to be shipped from Cuba to the U.S. Cuba was banned. Cuba has a communist government.
Charming early1950's Cold War fantasy of a bad ol' unprovoked nuclear attack on the USA by our nasty ol' enemies, which are never named, only refered to as "the enemy." Since I don't remember hearing about it on my early 5-inch TV, I assume this is fiction, and not actual history. OMG, enemy planes destroyed Boulder Dam! Dammit!!! 😅
If by real you mean stock footage from the second world War. This movie is a incomprehensible mess try to be enlightening to a paranoid cold war america public. But hey I made for a entertaining episode of mstk 3000
+leemon sampson Question which one played Lois Lane first? If you say Phyllis Choates you would be wrong. While Choates was the first TV Lois Lane, she was not the first of the two to play Lois Lane. Noel Neill played Lois Lane in Movie Serials before the TV version The Adventures of Superman. Interesting thing about the serials, Kirk Alyn the man who played Superman never got on air credit for the role. The studio promoted the serials by saying we could not find any actor worthy of playing the role of Superman so we hired the real Superman to play the role.
+leemon sampson I noticed that immediately at the casting and am glad you did too. of course, PC played LL first since she did so in the original movie.
I was born in 1948 and I do not know how old I was when I first saw this movie, but it has remained in my mind for over 60 years until I found it again. Perhaps it has helped to make me who I am today. The only thing I have remembered all these years was the scene of the swirling glass of liquor hypnotizing everyone.
Joseph Stalin was head of the Soviet Union in 1952. Harry Truman was President of the United States. We were also fighting the Chinese Communists during the Korean War.
The Beautiful Future Lois Lane From TV'S Superman Playing the Ticket Agent in this Movie Actress Noel Neil Sadly she passed Away in 2016 at Age 95 God Bless May she RIP And is Sadly missed by all of her Fans etc.
I’m 16 years old and I love world war three movies old and new. This is my first time seeing this film and I didn’t know how good old movies like this are! Good movie. 10/10
This crazy movie is actually a master class in low budget film-making with expert use of stock footage. Some pretty good actors with both early Lois Lanes, an appearance of the always working William Schallert (388 credits in the IMDB), and I've always liked Dan O'Herlihy with his sonorous voice and diction (great in Fail Safe). Edward G. Robinson Jr. is the the son of the famous actor who died kind of young of a heart attack at the age of 40 (the son, not the dad).
This is the same time "duck and cover" was the precaution and action taught in school. 1952 is only 7 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The general world (and hollywood for that matter) had no real idea what the effects of an explosion were. Granted the ICBM that was 200 yards from my childhood home (70s and 80s) was known in the 80s to be able to vaporize at least a 20 mile radius...and they would even publish hypotheticals on the front page every week about a Russian ICBM direct hit on nearby Ellsworth. We all knew as my dad told me more than once, "You can kiss our ass goodbye if that thing ever opens up. There will be no shelter that will save anyone for hundreds of miles."
I'm pretty sure we had all sorts of radar defenses by the 1950's...Canada line and the DEW (defense early warning) line for our northern border against Russian invasion.
@@JohnKennedy-zi5oimodern day technology and communications was the game breaker for borders.. and the young people coming up all over the world will eat it up..all they know
14:31 ...so...this has been going on since 1952...so we've had all these "enemies" all around us for 70 + years... I think someone is not telling us the truth.
Mr Spinks linked me to this movie with the boulder dam scene overtaking the family which I had remembered but not seen in over 45 years. Thanks and nice print. Subscribed.👍
Oh, I miss the days when movies had a "moral to the story": "If you want to change what you will become, first change what you are." Then again, I was born the year this movie was released and "morals to the story" have now been relegated to the stuff of kid's book, myths, and fairy tales. The "moral," it seems to me, is the difference between "...life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" compared to "...life, liberty, and the pursuit of meaning and purpose".
Your words should be placed above every doorway at every school & government building, " LIFE, LIBERTY, & the PURSUIT of MEANING & PURPOSE " That's PERFECT!
It is so refreshing to see someone else who appreciates and recognizes the era of when television and movies had morals and lessons to share. I believe that part of the problem with society today is that we have removed that element from most of what we watch and thus, lost the goodness that it gave its audience. Anyway, thank you for pointing out this very important and critical element of this wonderful film.
A forgotten gem from my youth during the FIRST "cold war". I last saw this 50 years ago as a child. Despite a multitude of inaccuracies, this skillfully handled film still packs a wallop - to those of us who remember! Thank you for running it!
@ITS JUST MY OPINION Really? What happened in 2001, on 9/11, buster? Despite the idiotic conspiracy theories, the US was attacked, and it has resonated and had consequences since, not just in the US, but globally. Propaganda? I 'spect you'd live in happily in the lala-land under Biden, later Harris ('cause that's what you're getting - an unelected POTUS - not that you haven't got that now - who hates the US, Judeo-Christian and conservative values, and turn you into a China-style tyrrany) - high taxes, reduced military, overwhelmed and underemployed industries and people, cities ending up as skid row Detroit, as long as you get what you want - the whole of the US as a completely lawless megaversion of CHAZ, and you sitting pretty on the top of the pile.... Still, it might just all be a bad trip, eh?....
I started LIFE in the 1950s...and YES, I practiced hiding under my school desk with my friends! I knew that was 'stupid' since the building would be TOTALLY BLOWN APART by an ATOMIC BLAST WAVE, or just VAPORIZED!! Please STOP using ATOMIC REACTION WEAPONS PEOPLE OF EARTH.
The Russian invasion concept was also used in Call Of Duty too most notably in Modern Warfare 2 and 3 where the US gets invaded after a airport massacre called No Russian
Yes there is… But the Democrats want to take that away from us, take our guns, and remove the 2nd amendment!! Perhaps we should somehow force the Democrats, Leftists, and every “woke” college student to see this movie, Lol….
This is a great piece of cold war cinema. It comes across like a fever dream of surrealism. The film makers were probably making it from a serious perspective which makes the bizarre way it comes across very authentic.
They were taking it from a seriously fascist perspective. Labor conscription? And on what would have to be a massive scale, as the entire economy would have to be mobilized in the defense of the Fatherland, not just a few defense plants. This is Goebbels-style propaganda here. What Dan O'Herlihy's character advocates is exactly Nazi-style economics--except the slave labor wouldn't be coming from conquered countries.
@@sirloxleymendoza972 Oooeee you named the religion that must not be implicated, or critisized, ever. Are you just trying to get banned? Best to just call it the Voldemort religion. Quite fitting, as they are both kinda evil.
You missed it. Around the 42:11 time stamp, the Navy shoots down a biplane. It's only shown for a split second, so I had to back it up and go frame by frame to be sure.
Hahaha at 31:10, that's a Lockheed Constellation. Brings back memories. That's the first type plane I flew on going over seas and it took forever. There were no passenger seats or safety belts for me just fold down benches down each side, and it was operated by Tiger Lines. Even had the same snarling face used on the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk painted on.
@@lindycorgey2743 The designation I don't know about but I doubt is was Military surplus since this was during Vietnam. It was on government contract though.
I saw this in a theater when it first came out and it scared the crap out of me. I thought the Russians were going to invade any day. Even now with the cheezy inaccurate stock footage and bottom of the barrel production values its still kind of scary. It had a great storyline and if a remake of it was done with modern FX it would be an awesome movie.
I'm glad you brought that up. In WWII, a B-29 landed in Russia and they refused to give it back. They reversed engineered it and built their own calling it the Tu-4.
Cpl. Adrian Shepard Hey dude! I was commenting on whether during this timeline, the Russians could attack with B-29/Tu-4 bombers! If you have issues...look it up. You realised of course, that this is a '50's propaganda film and if the Russian pilots didn't speak English the Americans couldn't understand them.
THIS MOVIE SHOULD BE SHOWN TODAY SO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE CAN SEE WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF THEY KEEP VOTING DEMOCRAT AS THEY WANT TO TURN THIS COUNTRY OVER TO THE COMMUNISTS. BUT AS LONG AS WE HAVE DONALD TRUMP AS OUR PRESIDENT THAT WON'T HAPPEN. TRUMP2020!🇺🇸
How does voting for neo liberals lead to the country getting bombed? Pretty sure Obama and Clinton were just as militaristic and would still allow the military to invade
I grew up in the fifties and sixties and this was everyone's worry. As school children, we had regular drills to hide under our desks in case of a military attack on the USA. This movie is very interesting. It exactly reflects the real fear people had in those days. It's interesting the President of the USA in this movie never faces the camera!
Pure propaganda.Thirty thousand dead .Believe that and I got a Bridge in Brooklyn for ya.!!!! No more exceptional nation after nuke war. You ain't beating up goat herders in Third World. Had JFK lived no more Cold War.Periid.After near miss of Cuban Missile Crisis he was ready to end Cold War and world would have had a chance. Too late now.RF surrounded by NATO on border.Dont mess with the bear and his Dead Hand Nuclear System.!!!!
No it's the near future.The morale of this tale is Get rid oF MI C and crooked mealy mouth politicians in their pay.While US goes bankrupt millions and millions with no decent jobs, drugs controlling 80 per cent of masses and Deviant beliefs of vOne Party System in DC. Too late however for this nation.. Big import coming IS war on Homeland.
It sure does look like it, doesn't it ? They shot Red Dawn in the town I used to live in- Las Vegas, New Mexico. I remember the side of a brick building (I think) where they had painted the name of the movie's location- Calumet. Just about the entire population had roles as extras in that movie at one point or another. I thought the movie rather cheesy and melodramatic when I first saw it, but it has grown non me a bit. What surprises me is that it is so well remembered by so many people. I thought it would be in the "here today, gone tomorrow" category. But I guess it found its niche in movie history, as did this one.
It was one of the very few films about WWIII that actually portrayed Soviet and Block Nations as our enemy. The story line was partially conceived by Donald Rumsfeld. The details were pretty good (The replica T-72 tank was so well built the CIA came out to investigate where MGM got it.) but let's face it, the film was a howler. Better than that abysmal remake though.
A couple of other good cold war flicks of this time were "Dr. Strangelove" and "Fail Safe". An 80s film similar to this is "Red Dawn", starring a young Patrick Swayze.
Yamamoto said "If we invade USA, what our soldiers will find when they get there is a gun behind every blade of grass." Bombing/ICBMs? That's what we've always been afraid of... Invasion? Fat chance... They'd face TWO militias and they'd die... To a man... God bless a nation that bears arms...
We here in the USA made superior electronic products. Our own US based corporations sold us out to cheap Asian labor. We didn't have to let the Asians make anything.
The key part of the film for me is at 36 mins. There must be many 5th columnists in the UK who would gladly help an enemy nation to invade if Facebook is anything to go by.....
28:53... the airline ticket agent. Is that Lois Lane from "The Adventures Of Superman" TV series? That voice sounds exactly like her, and her face looks an awful lot like her! It is her! I just checked the opening credits and Phyllis Coates is listed there.
@@Railhog2102 Probably because Truman Fired McArthur, who wanted drop a nuke on the Chinese troops. About 300K troops in a valley. It occurred to me a just few months ago, maybe that dismissal had an impact on Vietnam military leaders, they didn't want to lose their retirement if they were fired by LBJ.
@@Terranallias18 It must be handled right. The intelligence agency must provide the leaders with correct information about the enemy. Each side can play bluff, but if your bluff is called, one must be prepared to win. I think Korea was the start of "Police Actions", the next would be VietNam. The enemy plays the US bc the US fights by civil rules. The precedent for Nukes started with Japan. I think the British convinced Truman to not use Nukes. Now one hears the Chinese saying the US deserves at least a bloody nose. Historically, I wouldn't expect the US to fight fair and win in a battle with China.
I fell in love with Gerald Mohr's voice on the classic radio show "The Adventures of Philip Marlowe". I would like to see more of his films featured. I always thought that it would have been great to see some movies with Gerald Mohr and Humphrey Bogart together. They both seem like they would get along great playing off each other. I would like to know what caused Gerald Mohrs' death. He died so young. I love this movie, and the ending is a total shocker that has never been done in any other movie. Love it! Love it! Love it! Thank you for posting it!
He died of a heart attack in the later 1960's. I listened to him a lot on radio dramas---usually crime dramas---many of which are available as you probably know, on youtube. Btw, for a very different view of Mohr, he is in a very funny Jack Benny tv show from the late 50's/early 60's, I think the episode that also featured either Mamie Van Doren or Jayne Mansfield.
I have a confession to make, which might sound silly after seeing this wonderful movie, but I thought the title "Invasion USA" was about being invaded by Extraterrestrials from outer space. I have never seen this movie before, not even on TCM. I wonder why.
The Communists have already taken over America without hardly firing a shot. If and when the Communist in government disarm us you will see millions starved and murdered with the help of their Communist cop enforcers of course!
Plenty of LEO will side with the NWO crowd and find they're on the wrong side. Their gear will just *make for a sweet battlefield pickup. The DHS maggots will no doubt get skinned and tortured.*
Howard Fortyfive I really wish that what you posted is not true or not likely to happen but I can't deny it becomes more of a possibility every day. It just seems like a bad dream. But then those of us awake and prepared know that it has happened elsewhere and there is no reason that it can't here. Save for the 2nd Amendment.
@@Railhog2102 "Invaded." You mean when the Capitol Police invited the protesters in? No one was complaining when lefties actually did invade the Senate chamber during the Brett Kavanaugh nomination. They got $50 fines.
Alaska did not become a US state until 1959. The Aleutians were invaded by Japan in WW2, and they were able to bomb parts of Canada, so this is partly based on history.
I gave it a thumbs up, it wasn't a full blown "red scare" movie, but it did lean on a Russian invasion, At least, there wasn't a commie in every corner and stuff like that.
There is a good War of the World vibe goings on in the opening act. The people who can't remember anything prior to 2000, much less prior 2008, are going to have their brains broken by this. And they probably won't understand that with this stock footage from WWII, when you see fighting, you're watching men die. That's not a special effect. And they're probably the ones who like the little speech by the commisar at the end.
Reminds me of the 1938 radio broadcast about the war of the worlds thousands thought it was real phone lines across the entire country were tied up for hours and rumors existed of actual suicides.
Ruth Cobb --- Sorry, no. In that time, the U.S.S.R. did not have enough guns, ammo, and soldiers to invade, vanquish, and annex the U.S.A. to the U.S.S.R., plus there are some NYC neighbourhoods that the Sovs would have avoided.
It was one of the first invasion films since something like this has never been made before until Red Dawn came out decades later in 84 which was also popular with audiences at that time
@@Railhog2102 There was another good movie made around the same time where LA gets nuked. People flee to the countryside and try to survive without getting robbed or killed by other desperate people. Wish I could remember the name.
This is a good movie. I remember when Americans were still loyal to America, and wouldn't listen to any traitor or anti-American talk. I remember when people would've reacted this same way. Not today.
The first time my father said to us that America had a Communist party, I squeaked, "WHAT? Why don't the police put them in jail?" He explained that in America you can be a Communist if that's what you prefer to be. It took my kid-self a while to digest all that.
@obrbob194] David Lanham, yeah man, don't act like you're in America, like you can say what you want, think what you happen to think without checking to be sure it's still allowed. We have special police on duty 25/8 to handle your type, as obrbob is here to attest. This is a High Holy Church you're butting up against. THE High Holy Church. Those who aren't members will all fall in line. It's guaranteed, as we can see. Orb Bob, why don't you go find a Confederate statue to have removed in a small town somewhere? That stinking thing over in Jackson Square in New Orleans is STILL THERE.
The film maker of this movie was really smart to realise the film could be made at minimum cost. It was made during the Korean war and there was all the battle stock footage he could possibly want. Back then the Army Navy surplus stores were full to the brim with just about anything military to could think of. I loved going to those stores, they even sold WWII weapons like Thompson Machine Gun, The Browning Automatic rifle and even Sherman tanks. Farmers converted them to bulldozers. As to the story plot, not a chance on hell. I was only 4 years old in 1952, but even at that age I knew the country was full of WWII battle hardened soldiers and sailors. The access to weapons would have had the Russians facing millions of well armed Americans. The Russians had very few nuclear bombs and we had a lot, including the hydrogen bomb. During the Berlin Airlift President Truman send a bunch of B-29 bombers to England and told the Soviets if they shoot down one plane he'll order a nuclear strike. In 1952 it was Russia who was the weaker. They simply didn't have the planes and ships that could make it to Alaska let alone the lower 48. Movies like this were merely intended to keep the American people from becoming too cocky and complacent. That's because the communists in Korea were so maniacal and aggressive. BTW, 1952 I remenber quite well. My mom was a single mother and she was engaged to marry and man who was perfect for her and me. He was an F-86 pilot and was shot down and killed in 1952. Thomas
td fisk But You know, that the Berlin Airlift was a complete Propaganda Mission? The Shops were full of food to buy, only not with the just released new currency. The Russians were only desperately responding to the Power-Question. Who controls the money, controls the Country.
I know it is good to be confident . But did you ever think the USSR may have had more battle hardened veterans in 1952 ? They did inflict 90% of axis casualties. I am not going to get into what ifs to much . What had happened has happened. We all could have done things different on out lives
Yes. Battle hardened vets. What do we have now? Metro sexuals, brats, and little yakkie mouthed foreign children telling us how WE are destroying THEIR world...sigh.
❤👍 well written, my father was a cold war soldier. He was stationed in Germany on the Czecholslavakian border. I quite agree with all you said. God Bless
