The Atomic Cafe
by Pierce Rafferty, Kevin Rafferty (II), Jayne Loader
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Actor: George Molan, Hugh Beaumont, J. Edgar Hoover, Paul Tibbets, William H. PetersonDirector: Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty (II), Pierce Rafferty
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-03-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: New Video Group
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Movie Review: One of the best documentary films of the cold war
Summary: 5 Stars
Anyone over the age of 45 will laugh nervously through this film at the "devil may care" attitude of "Early Cold War America." Between the blissfully ignorant man-on-the-street interviews of everyday citizens to the brutally honest footage of the military test film footage, the viewer gets a clear picture of what was happening to our nuclear arms buildup as opposed to how much the public really understood. Classic clips from interviews, training films, educational television programs and civil defense propoganda is stitched together to create a clear timeline of nuclear anxiety and naivet? without a word of narrated voice-over. This film also includes quite possibly the worlds worst actor: an army chaplain who is trying to ease the anxieties of his fellow soldiers with dialogue that took probably ten seconds to write, but what I'm sure took this poor guy days to rehearse and memorize. Worth the price alone (but you'll enjoy the rest, too.)
Summary of The Atomic Cafe
The atomic bomb changed the world forever, and this wonderful film shows how Americans expressed wonder over atomic weapons and then suffered from the pervasive fear that America would be on the receiving end of a Soviet nuclear attack. Atomic Cafe is a brilliant compilation of archival film clips beginning with the first atomic bomb detonation in the New Mexico desert. The footage, much of it produced as government propaganda, follows the story of the bomb through the two atomic attacks on Japan that ended World War II to the bomb's central role in the cold war. Shown along with the famous "duck and cover" Civil Defense films are lesser-known clips, many of which possess a bizarre black humor when seen today, and it's easy to see why this film, which was produced in the early 1980s, became a cult classic sometimes referred to as the "nuclear Reefer Madness." Bellicose congressmen are shown advocating a freewheeling policy of nuclear strikes against China during the Korean War, suburban families are shown enjoying the comforts of their bomb shelters, and footage of a boy trying to bicycle to a bomb shelter in a "bomb survival suit" his father designed is priceless. Atomic Cafe is at once clever and poignant, a canny and offbeat look at a significant period in American history. --Robert J. McNamaraOn its 20-year anniversary, and not a moment too soon, THE ATOMIC CAFE is back to provide us with a much-needed release of comic energy. A dark comedy in the truest sense, this timeless classic took the nation by storm when it first debuted in 1982. The
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