Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12492 in VHS
• Released on: 1998-11-11
• Rating: Unrated
• Formats: Black & White, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 85 minutes

From the back cover
Nuclear physicist Frank Addison (Gene Barry) and his wife are living a nightmare: their son Tommy (Lee Aaker, know to '50's TV fans as Rusty in The Adventures Of Rin Tin Tin) has been kidnapped. The ransom demand: the secrets behind the H-bomb! The desperate scramble to rescue Tommy unfolds at a rapid pace in The Atomic City. Real-life locations--from the Los Angeles streets to Santa Fe cliff dwellings--provide the vivid backdrops for this taut thriller that, wrote Bosley Crowther in The New York Times, "is made for suspense and excitement, and those are what it gives."

Customer Reviews

Was nominated for an Academy Award - Best Writing, Story and Screenplay
Here is a much lesser known 50's sci-fi with a little different twist. An atomic researchers son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of the the Father's atomic secrets.

This is a tightly knit atomic sci-fi thriller with great production values and above average acting, even from the kid. The Atomic City actually has a movie feel to it unlike a lot of other 50's sci-fi of this time which which came off more like an episode of a TV show.

The Atomic City was also actually nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay - how many other 50's sci-fi can tout an Academy Award Nomination?

Great pacing, tight direction and some superb location filming in the 'real' Atomic City of Los Alamos, New Mexico make this one worth hunting down. The collectors print in circulation is an above average transfer and makes for a great double feature with the Atomic Man!!

Recommended

Terrific fun
A wonderful old fashioned scary face paced science fiction film. Paramount takes such good care of their prints and this video shows it!