Silent with narration and a few voices dubbed here and there. Tor Johnson as a Soviet scientist who's come to the U.S. with Soviet documents. Two Soviet agents understandably want the documents back. They drive a lovely 1961 Plymouth Valiant. They shoot it out with Tor Johnson's American handler.
The Soviet guys chase them into Yucca Flats just before an atomic bomb test is carried out there. The briefcase bursts into flames and Tor Johnson becomes a homicidal maniac.
All this happens in the first nine minutes.
Tor Johnson strangles a couple driving a Renault 4CV who stop on the side of the road. The car is rear engine so the wife faces forward and doesn't see Tor Johnson strangle her husband as he monkeys with the engine.
After that, I didn't pay that much attention. There are two guys with rifles, there are two boys, sons of the director, who are lost in the desert. Guys in a plane shoot at another guy running through the desert.
My guess is that they normally wouldn't have credited the kid who appeared briefly selling newspapers but they were padding the credits, and it's nice for the kid to see his name on screen, although I'm not sure they'd let him see a movie with a naked lady.
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| Graham Stafford as the News Boy. |
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