Day The World Ended (1955)

Man has done his best to destroy himself, but there is a force more powerful than man and in his infinite wisdom he spared a few on The Day the World Ended. "And the elements shall melt with fervent heat, and the earth also, and the works and all therein shall be burned up." TD-the day of total destruction by nuclear weapons is at hand. Jim always knew this day would come and for the last ten years the retired sea captain prepared for it-building a safe house within a naturally protected valley and stocking provisions for himself, his daughter Louise, and her husband Tommy. The atomic haze of death hangs over the earth, the world he once knew no longer exists, and Tommy-who was beyond the valley during the blast-is certainly dead. When strangers wander into the valley, Jim is reluctant to welcome them, But the compassionate Louise insists her father open the door. First to Rick, a handsome young geologist. Then to Tony and Ruby, a two-bit hood and his striptease girlfriend. To Pete, a moonshining gold prospector with his burro Diablo. And even to Radick, whose overexposure to radiation marks him for imminent death. Radick undergoes terrifying mutations as the others watch. He develops an armor-plated skin that allows him to venture beyond the deadly wall of vapor at the valley entrance and lead the others to finally understand the frightening reality of their nuclear nightmare. Only Louise truly confronts the monster calling from beyond the sanctuary and makes a new beginning in this holocaust horror classic - a fearsome warning to an anxious age.