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Five is a 1951 American independent horror science fiction film that was produced, written, and directed by Arch Oboler. The film stars William Phipps, Susan Douglas Rubeš, James Anderson, Charles Lampkin, and Earl Lee. Five was distributed by Columbia Pictures.
Five: Directed by Arch Oboler. With William Phipps, Susan Douglas Rubes, James Anderson, Charles Lampkin. The world is destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. Only five Americans survive, including a pregnant woman, a neo-Nazi, a black man and a bank clerk.
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- Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
- Arch Oboler
- 1951-10
This film was originally released in 1951, which is about the time anti-nuclear fervor (and fear) began to bias even scientists with misinformation....
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- William Phipps
- Arch Oboler
- Sci-Fi
Intriguing, offbeat film by famed radio writer-director Arch Oboler about the survivors of a nuclear holocaust. FIVE stars William Phipps, Susan Douglas and Charles Lampkin, and is probably the...
Summaries. The world is destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. Only five Americans survive, including a pregnant woman, a neo-Nazi, a black man and a bank clerk. Five people are miraculously spared when the fall-out from a super-atomic bomb eventually kills all of the rest of humanity on earth.
Arch Oboler's Five is not the first end-of-the-world film, but it is the first American film to end it all by nuclear holocaust. Five opens on the familiar mushroom cloud followed by a montage of the wonders of the world and the landmarks of civilization, which are scrubbed free of human habitation with a few simple visual effects and the ...
The five come together at a remote, isolated hillside house, where they try to figure out how to survive. Arch Oboler. Director, Writer. The film's storyline involves five survivors, one woman and four men, of an atomic bomb disaster.
