Nothing especially original in this doomsday flick, except it's taut, manages the momentum well, and does a fine job on a limited budget. Seamon Glass (Deliverance) plays a gruff, brawny highway patrolman assigned the unenviable duty of preventing motorists from entering what is likely to become the target of an Atom-bomb attack. When he and the assorted bunch of motorists stopped at his checkpoint discover they are within the prospective radioactive zone, they set-about futile attempts at survival in the cargo hold of a semi-trailer. Predictably, tensions mount as the attack grows more imminent.Low-key, no frills production has plenty of atmosphere highlighted by Glass's no- nonsense portrayal of the harassed cop whose heavy-handedness makes for turbulent relations with those who's welfare he's assigned to protect. There's infidelity, an escaped murderer, the old sage spouting metaphors of wisdom, and while most are just clichés, director Gadette handles the sub-plots with economy, serving only as pauses from the narrative, nothing too deep to distract the attention.The cast is fairly obscure; notwithstanding Glass, Norman Bartold has a prominent role as a whining cuckold husband (credited as Norman Winston for some reason), and Ralph Manza appears briefly late in the film as one of a mob of crazed looters. Quite a decent yarn.

A group of strangers deal with an impending nuke attack.So they use a 53' trailer as a bomb shelter. That is an interesting concept. I think Id climb the mountain with Jake and watch the fireworks. The editing on this one was a bit amateurish. Otherwise,this was a a watchable movie.Alan Austin drives the White big rig.Alan Austin is a permanent A list actor!Audrey Martin,Mary Morias, and Carol Kent are hot!!---One Truck Drivers Opinion---erldwgstruckermovies.com

Someone, somewhere, at some time must have thought this was a pretty good idea for a picture. But come on, even with the back drop of Cold War hysteria and all those 'duck and cover' air raid drills back in grammar school, this is one sorry effort. I keep thinking about the character of Deputy Dan Colter (Seamon Glass) and I just have to shake my head. What a pain in the butt. Did it really make that much of a difference where everyone parked their cars? And what was the big deal about getting everyone's name - he never referred to anyone by name afterwards anyway. Then he really earned the creep of the year award by choking out the little puppy dog. You would think by that time every able bodied guy and gal on board would just rush the lunatic and throw him over to go their own way.The inclusion of the hitchhiker killer was an interesting touch though. Remember when granddaughter Juney (Aubrey Martin) stated to him that they were all going to die? Clint (Ron Starr) responded by saying that she wouldn't because she was nice. Sounded to me like he might have had a plan, but they all went out the window when he tried making a tossed chicken salad while all the birds were still alive.Curiously, most of the other reviews of the flick on this board seem fairly supportive, making me wonder whether I watched the same story. I don't know, I put myself in the place of any one of the poor roadside hostages and I think I'd be of a mind to take out old Deputy Colter and make a feeble run for it, foolish as that might have been. After all, it wasn't a test, so why bother following rules?

I disagree with the 'film expert's' analysis of this movie. This is a 1960's attempt to portray the social/psychological dynamics of people facing a nuclear war. It is meant to be chaotic and disjointed as the social structures, concepts of authority, relationships and the lives of people are torn apart by dread, stress and certain doom. The end of the movie is the capstone that explains it all as the bomb hits.This is one in a long list of 'cold war' movies. It is amazing to observe the ideals portrayed by the writers living in the 1960's era in comparison to social structures in the latter half of the the first decade in the new millennium.