Where Have All The People Gone?

Where Have All The People Gone?
Directed by John Llewellyn Moxey
Produced by Gerald W. Abrams (associate producer)
Charles W. Fries (executive producer)
Gerald I. Isenberg (producer)
Written by Lewis John Carlino
Sandor Stern
Music by Robert Prince
Cinematography Michael D. Margulies
Edited by John A. Martinelli
Distributed by National Broadcasting Company (1974, USA, TV)
Lorimar Home Video (USA, VHS)
Reel Media International (worldwide, all media)
Release dates
 October 8, 1974 (USA)
Running time
 74 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Where Have All The People Gone? was a made for TV movie that was broadcast on NBC in 1974. It starred Peter Graves, Kathleen Quinlan, George O'Hanlon Jr., and Verna Bloom.

Plot

On a camping trip in the Sierra Nevada mountains in central California, a father (Peter Graves) and his two teenage children are exploring a cave when they experience an earthquake. After emerging, they hear from a ranch hand who was outside that there was a bright solar flash prior to the earthquake. He soon falls ill and dies, whereupon his body turns to a powdery substance. As the family comes down from the mountain to the nearest town, they discover that everyone has turned to the powdery substance inside their clothing - and there are only a few survivors left.

Most, out of fear and survival, are out for themselves, but as they try to make their way home to Malibu (where the mother had returned earlier from the camping trip), they find two people that need their help as well as a man who invites them to be neighbors.

They face dangers ranging from wild dogs, who seem to have been driven mad from the solar flare, to a gunman who steals their car. They rescue a woman (Verna Bloom), and later a young boy whose family was killed by two men who stole their car. Besides the physical journey, they struggle to overcome the emotional trauma of the events.

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