Columbia Pictures
Directed by Joseph Losey
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Sony)
Oliver Reed is the leader of a group of thugs in a British seaside resort town who prey on local tourists. One day they pick on Macdonald Carey, a wealthy American who lives on a yacht. They get his wallet but he gets their girl, Oliver's sister, who steals away with him on the yacht. Oliver pursues them to a remote area on the cliffs. At this point the plot takes a completely unexpected turn and becomes a sci-fi tinged, nuclear scare film. They stumble on a group of undead children living in some caves who are radioactive. Really. Apparently they are man's last hope when the inevitable nuclear war begins. Exactly who they are and how that will work is not explained very well. Are they immune to radiation? Will they take off in a big spaceship to another planet as they alluded to at one point? These lingering questions and the unrelated first half or so make the film unsatisfying on most levels.
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