11/8/2022 0 Comments Split second 1953![]() The plan was rejected outright by Stalin and any Eastern Bloc country considering accepting aid was reprimanded severely. This was a programme of economic aid offered by the United States to any European country. President Truman promised to help any country facing a Communist takeover Ho Chi Minh proclaimed Vietnam an independent republic.Ĭhurchill delivers his ‘Sinews of Peace’ speech which contain the famous phrase “.an iron curtain has descended on Europe” The Japanese surrendered bringing World War Two to an end. The United States dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. The United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima The Russian Polish border was determined and Korea was to be divided into Soviet and American zones. It was also agreed that the German capital Berlin would be divided into four zones. Sterling, Smith, Paul Kelly, and Hunnicutt get the best of the films acting honors.The Potsdam Conference formally divided Germany and Austria into four zones. I like SPLIT SECOND much better than this, but I agree with some of the complaints about plot holes and McNally is over the top.Īndes may be the “hero”, but his billing tells you he wasn’t considered very important to the plot. I’m not sure that mystery can ever be solved, but it’s a damn shame as well as a strange coincidence related or not. There was a high cancer rate in the nearest town to where they filmed THE CONQUEROR too, but despite the impressive percentages there is also the fact that most of those who died were heavy smokers, and several of those who died lived to be fairly old like Wayne. But the numbers are out of proportion of the general public, as you noted. If that’s what happened, what a waste, as in spite of the cast, the movie wasn’t all that good, or so I’m told.Īpparently neither June Allyson nor John Wayne totally accepted this, and but others did, and quite a few who got the disease recovered. I’m not totally convinced, but the statistics are hard to argue against. Here’s one of them that puzzled me throughout the movie: How do so many people manage to avoid the roadblocks into the area to begin with?Ĥ Responses to “Movie Review: SPLIT SECOND (1953).”Ī serious aside: Dick Powell and many others died of cancer probably caused by nuclear testing and/or waste during production of the Conqueror. While the camera work is fluid and very effective, the direction itself (Dick Powell’s debut) is often stagey and in effect calls attention to itself more than pleased me. Perfect in her role, however, is Jan Sterling, caught between her attraction to Andes and diverting the crude advances of McNally. As the crazed murderer in charge of his small gang, Stephen McNally is over the top when it comes to the “crazed” part of his role, while Keith Andes holds back a little too much. The movie has a good many fans, but unfortunately I found it far less intense and suspenseful than I was supposed to, even with the time of the blast moved up an hour. ![]() Also trapped are a woman (Alexis Smith) doing in Nevada what women with unwanted husbands did in the 50s, along with her current male companion (Robert Paige).Īdding considerable stress to the situation is the fact that a nuclear bomb test is scheduled to take place at six the next morning, and they are less than a mile from ground zero. Others include a journalist (Keith Andes) and the female hoofer (Jan Sterling) he had picked up earlier as a hitchhiker. Director: Dick Powell.Ī large ensemble cast portraying a group of strangers, mostly, being held captive in a Nevada ghost town by am escaped killer (Stephen McNally) and his two confederates, one of whom (Paul Kelly) is seriously wounded. Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling, Keith Andes, Arthur Hunnicutt, Paul Kelly, Robert Paige, Richard Egan, Frank de Kova. ![]()
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