This is Not a Test (1962 film)

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This is Not a Test
Directed by	Fredric Gadette
Produced by	Murray De Atley Fredric Gadette James Grandin (executive) Arthur Schmoyer (executive)
Written by	Fredric Gadette Peter Abenheim Betty Lasky
Starring	Seamon Glass Thayer Roberts Aubrey Martin
Music by	Greig McRitchie
Cinematography	Brick Marquard
Editing by	Hal Dennis
Distributed by	Allied Artists
Release date(s)	1962
Running time	73 min.
Country
Language	English
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This is Not a Test is an American motion picture released in 1962. Produced at the height of the Cold War, the film was one of a number of productions of the late-1950s and early-1960s based upon the premise of the outbreak of nuclear war.

Starring a group of mostly unknown actors, This is Not a Test begins with a long police officer receiving orders to block a road leading into an unidentified city (dialogue indicates the location is somewhere in central California, however). Soon, he has detained several vehicles with a variety of occupants ranging from an elderly man and his granddaughter, to a man who has recently become rich and his alcoholic wife, to a trucker and a hitchhiker. The motorists and the police officer hear attack warnings over the police radio and begin to prepare for the inevitable bombing. The film focuses on the reactions to the impending attack by the motorists, and the officer's efforts to keep order. Complicating matters is the revelation that the hitchhiker is a psychotic who is wanted for murder. As the countdown to the missile attack continues, the men and women try desperately to convert a supply truck into an impromptu bomb shelter.

This is Not a Test is presently in the public domain in the United States, and has been released in numerous DVD formats, on its own or in collections of similar films.