Panic in the Year Zero!

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Panic in the Year Zero! ★★½ End of the World 1962

Milland and family leave Los Angeles for a fishing trip just as the city is hit by a nuclear bomb. Continuing out into the wilderness for safety, the family now must try to survive as their world crumbles around them. Generally considered the best of Milland's five directorial efforts. 92m/B VHS, DVD . Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon, Mary Mitchell, Joan Freeman, Richard Garland, Rex Holman, Richard Bakalyan, Willis Bouchey, Neil Nephew; D: Ray Milland; W: Jay Simms, John Morton; C: Gilbert Warrenton; M: Les Baxter.