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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Damnation Alley, it follows tough survivors crossing a devastated America, with a stripped-down 1970s future-shock look and constant pressure from scarce supplies and hostile groups.
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Why this pick
This is another sun-blasted, darkly eccentric 1970s wasteland journey, pairing improvised survival with strange encounters and a rough-edged vision of post-collapse America.
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Why this pick
For Damnation Alley's armored-road energy, this Italian exploitation apocalypse delivers convoy combat, desert ruins, aggressively pulpy villains, and a similarly unapologetic B-movie momentum.
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Why this pick
It shares the aftermath-of-catastrophe premise and increasingly uneasy solitude, but trades convoy action for a more intimate, eerie investigation of what remains after civilization vanishes.
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Why this pick
A family’s flight through a collapsing Britain has the same anxious road-survival structure, relentless threat escalation, and pessimistic early-1970s view of social order breaking down.
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01 / THE STORY
First Lieutenant Jake Tanner (Jan-Michael Vincent) shares ICBM silo duty at an United States Air Force missile base in the Californian desert with Major Eugene "Sam" Denton (George Peppard), who is requesting not to work with him. On their way to duty, Denton talks to Sergeant Tom Keegan (Paul Winfield), an aspiring artist. When the United States detects incoming nuclear missiles from the Soviet Union, Tanner and Denton launch part of the Second strike. The United States is hit hard, although it manages to intercept 40% of the Soviet missiles.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Tanner
Keegan
Lt. Tom Perry
Mountain Man #2
Technician
Colonel
Burning Man
Mountain Man
