81 minute running time … unusual movie, B picture from Columbia, super low-budget but that doesn’t mean it’s bad ... the politics of it were interesting to me, Irving Lerner directed and you can quickly see why he was blacklisted … it’s not a green-go because the story and writing and acting aren’t great, but there is something special about it, so if you’re a true 50s film buff, you should see it. This was a Jonathan Rosenbaum recommendation, and I’m not sorry I saw it. There’s a short blurb on the DVD by Martin Scorsese talking about how much the movie influenced him.
And what do they do to the guy that throws a grenade, fires a mortar shell, aims a navy gun, drops the airplane bomb, or presses a button that sends a missile 5,000 miles with a hydrogen warhead?