Split Second (1953)

Split Second (1953) (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
85 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1953 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Dick Powell

Written By:
Chester Erskine
Irving Wallace

Actors:
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)

Synopsis:

Actor Dick Powell made an impressive film debut with the taut atomic-age suspenser Split Second. Convicts Stephen McNally, Paul Kelly and Frank DeKova escape to a ghost town in the Nevada desert. Only it isn't exactly a ghost town, but a "dummy village" constructed for the purpose of A-bomb testing. The criminals hold several hostages, including reporter Keith Andes, nightclub singer Jan Sterling, selfish socialite Alexis Smith, her doctor-husband Richard Egan and her newest boyfriend Robert Paige. Andes suspects that the deserted town is at Ground Zero of the latest bomb test, but he can't convince the convicts until it's almost too late. The best and most horrifying sequence occurs near the end, when the criminals, accompanied by the duplicitous Ms. Smith, discover that they're driving towards the A-bomb target instead of away from it. Novelist Irving Wallace collaborated on the script of Split Second with Chester Erskine and William Bowers.

Story of an escaped killer's imprisonment of a group of people in a ghost town in an atomic explosion area.

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