FIVE

FIVE
   Film (1951). Columbia. Prod, written, dir Arch Oboler, starring Susan Douglas, William Phipps, James Anderson, Charles Lampkin, Earl Lee. 93 mins, cut to 89 mins (UK). B/w.
   The first "after the bomb" film, F concerns five US survivors - a mountaineer, a pregnant girl, a token Black, a cashier and an adventurer. This is a gloomy art film with low-budget, grainy photography, a scientifically bogus explanation for the five's survival, much talking, a racial murder and two deaths from radiation, but the theme itself retains some power. Oboler had worked extensively in radio before entering the film industry in 1945 with Strange Holiday and Bewitched, both based on his own radio plays. F is basically a sermonagainst the prejudices and insanities that may lead to atomic war.
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