Day the World Ended

Day the World Ended is a 1955 film about a post-Apocalyptic world after an atomic war with seven disparate people who find themselves in a protected valley in the home of a survivalist and his beautiful daughter.

Directed by Roger Corman. Written by Lou Rusoff.

The terrifying story that COULD COME TRUE!  (taglines)

Jim Maddison

• No human being could eat that poisonous meat and live!
• Rick, if there's no way out, use that gun on Louise.
• [finding a human skeleton] Radek ate him!

Louise Maddison

• The water! He's afraid of the water!
• Man created him and God destroyed him, He brought the rain and the clean air.

Other

• Radek: -I just can't help it, I have this uncontrollable urge to eat meat. Red... raw... meat-
• Rick: There might be an entirely new set of laws, Jim, that we know nothing about.

Dialogue

Rick: [Looking at the still moist bones of a rabbit] Do you think he ate that?

Jim Maddison: Forty-nine roentgens. Do you think a man could eat that poisonous meat and live?

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Jim Maddison: Sometimes I have a feeling of doom.

Rick: All I know is there are two forms of life fighting for survival here in this valley, and only one of them can win. It's got to be us!

Taglines

• The terrifying story that COULD COME TRUE!
• ATTACKED... by a creature from hell!
• Human emotions stripped raw!
• A new high in naked shrieking terror!

Cast

• Richard Denning — Rick
• Lori Nelson — Louise Maddison
• Adele Jergens — Ruby
• Mike Connors — Tony Lamont
• Paul Birch — Jim Maddison
• Raymond Hatton — Pete
• Paul Dubov — Radek
• Jonathan Haze — a Contaminated Man
• Paul Blaisdell — the Mutant
• Chet Huntley — Narrator

External links

• Day the World Ended quotes at the Internet Movie Database