Post by Zone Fighter on Oct 31, 2006 15:36:45 GMT -8
In The Year 2889 (1966)
Paul Petersen - Steve
Quinn O'Hara - Jada
Charla Doherty - Joanna Ramsey
Neil Fletcher - Captain John Ramsey
Hugh Feagin - Mickey Brown
Max W. Anderson - Granger
Billy Thurman - Tim Henderson
Byron Lord - Mutant
Former tugboat captain John Ramsey and his daughter survive nuclear war in a house John bought just for that purpose. He's stocked the house with enough food for three people for three months. This third person was to be his daughter's future husband, but he did not arrive before the bombs were dropped and is presumed dead. As strangers appear at the door John wants to send them away but his foolish, emotionaly driven daughter welcomes them. Now seven people have to survive on food meant for three. One of the seven was exposed to a level of radiation which should have killed him but instead turned him into a raw meat craving mutant who prowls the woods looking for food. Also in the woods who's further mutated into a fanged beast.
The seven survivors are retired Captain John Ramsey, his daughter Joanna, brothers Steve and Granger (the mutant), Jada an "exotic dancer", her "manager" Mickey Brown and Tim Henderson a ranger addicted to his homemade whiskey. Armed with a revolver and possesing the key to the storage room Captain John controls the food.
A pretty lame film. Because Captain John command the tugboat which towed a shipload of animals out of a hydrgon bomb test area he's supposed to be an expert on radiation. He says he's spent 10 years preparing to survive a nuclear war, yet he stores only enough food for three months and arms himself with just a revolver (we do discover in the end that he has at least two more locked up). He's not hard enough to be a survivalist. Order the strangers to leave then lets his daughter overrule his goodsense rather than hurt her feelings. The romance between Joanna and Steve is entirely predictable. There are supposed to be many mutants in the woods but we only see one "stage 1 mutant" (Granger), one "stage 2" mutant and one "stage 3" (or was it 4?) mutant.
We're supposed to think the ending offers hope for mankind, but with the emotional ruled Joanna as the new Eve mankind is doomed.
According to IMDB this is a remake of "Day the World Ended" (1957).
In The Year 2889 is available in a 3 DVD set titled "Tales from the Future" along with 8 other films.
Paul Petersen - Steve
Quinn O'Hara - Jada
Charla Doherty - Joanna Ramsey
Neil Fletcher - Captain John Ramsey
Hugh Feagin - Mickey Brown
Max W. Anderson - Granger
Billy Thurman - Tim Henderson
Byron Lord - Mutant
Former tugboat captain John Ramsey and his daughter survive nuclear war in a house John bought just for that purpose. He's stocked the house with enough food for three people for three months. This third person was to be his daughter's future husband, but he did not arrive before the bombs were dropped and is presumed dead. As strangers appear at the door John wants to send them away but his foolish, emotionaly driven daughter welcomes them. Now seven people have to survive on food meant for three. One of the seven was exposed to a level of radiation which should have killed him but instead turned him into a raw meat craving mutant who prowls the woods looking for food. Also in the woods who's further mutated into a fanged beast.
The seven survivors are retired Captain John Ramsey, his daughter Joanna, brothers Steve and Granger (the mutant), Jada an "exotic dancer", her "manager" Mickey Brown and Tim Henderson a ranger addicted to his homemade whiskey. Armed with a revolver and possesing the key to the storage room Captain John controls the food.
A pretty lame film. Because Captain John command the tugboat which towed a shipload of animals out of a hydrgon bomb test area he's supposed to be an expert on radiation. He says he's spent 10 years preparing to survive a nuclear war, yet he stores only enough food for three months and arms himself with just a revolver (we do discover in the end that he has at least two more locked up). He's not hard enough to be a survivalist. Order the strangers to leave then lets his daughter overrule his goodsense rather than hurt her feelings. The romance between Joanna and Steve is entirely predictable. There are supposed to be many mutants in the woods but we only see one "stage 1 mutant" (Granger), one "stage 2" mutant and one "stage 3" (or was it 4?) mutant.
We're supposed to think the ending offers hope for mankind, but with the emotional ruled Joanna as the new Eve mankind is doomed.
According to IMDB this is a remake of "Day the World Ended" (1957).
In The Year 2889 is available in a 3 DVD set titled "Tales from the Future" along with 8 other films.