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Five

USA 1951
produced by
Arch Oboler for Lobo Productions/Columbia
directed by Arch Oboler
starring William Phipps, Susan Douglas Rubes, James Anderson, Charles Lampkin, Earl Lee
written by Arch Oboler, music by Henry Russell

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Post doomsday: A nuclear war has destroyed pretty much everything, A sole pregnant woman, Roseanne (Susan Douglas Rubes) stumbles through the debris and the corpses, who knows how she has survived. Eventually, she reaches what turns out to be her sister's house, where Michael (William Phipps), a total stranger to her who has thus far considered himself the sole survivor, has taken up residence. The two befriend each other but no more, because she can't forget her husband, who she hopes is still alive. Eventually, they bump into two more people, old and frail Mr Barnstaple (Earl Lee), a banker who suppresses everything and has managed to convince himself that he's only on vacation, and his black driver Charles (Charles Lampkin), the epitomy of calm. Barnstaple soon dies from radiation poisoning, but the group soon finds another survivor, Eric (James Anderson), a mountaineer who has survived the nuclear war on the top of Mount Everest, and who has somehow made his way to America ... I don't know why exactly.

With Eric, a sort of dissense enters the group: While Michael and Charles have taken to farming to provide for themselves, Eric wants to raid major cities for supplies (and whatever else they can get), and he questions Michael as the group's inofficial leader, tries to become friendly with Roseanne, and eventually proves to be a racist.

With the birth of Roseanne's baby, things calm down a bit for a while, until Eric's restlessness comes through, and he destroys Michael and Charles's newly cultivated cornfield, persuades Roseanne to accompany him to the city (to find her husband he claims), and behind her back he kills Charles when he tries to hold him back.

In the city, Roseanne finds the dead body of her husband, and finds out that Eric only wanted to get her away from the others to make her his, just like he wants to own the city and everything in it. Away from the others, he can finally be the alpha male. But then Roseanne reveals to him that he has got radiation poisoning, and he runs away in terror.

Roseanne tries to make it back to Michael and Charles (whose dead she's unaware of), but her baby dies on the way. Eventually, she and Michael run into each other, and now the two of them decide to build the world up together ...

 

A very sombre post doomsday film, miles away from your usual propaganda fuelled drive-in fare from roughly the same era, Five gives its topic a pretty intelligent treatment without falling into Cold War rethorics, and it goes for philosophical questions rather than mutant action. That all said, Five is not a perfect film or masterpiece, it does take itself a bit too seriously, a bit too often falls back on clichées and simplifications, and it's not exactly free of plotholes. That said, it's still a welcome change from the more sensationalist fare that seemed to overcrowd the drive-ins in the 1950's - not that there's anything wrong with these movies though.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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