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Panic in Year Zero!

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Panic in Year Zero!	label	Panic in Year Zero!
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Panic in Year Zero!	comment	Panic in Year Zero! is a 1962 film directed by Ray Milland.Milland also stars as Harry Baldwin, a suburban dad who, as the film opens, is dragging his pretty wife Ann (Jean Hagen) and his unwilling kids Rick (Frankie Avalon) and Karen off on a weekend fishing trip. The Baldwins have left the LA area and have driven up into the mountains when they are startled to see flashes of blinding light. They park on the shoulder, and are horrified to see a mushroom cloud over the city of Los Angeles. At first, they can't get anything on the radio, but soon they pick up emergency broadcasts confirming that a nuclear war has broken out.Harry elects to take his family to the same camp in the mountains that they were already headed for, but now, to hide out and try to survive nuclear holocaust. At first society seems to still be more or less functioning, as the Baldwins stop at a restaurant and pay for gasoline at a gas station. But conditions deteriorate, as civilization breaks down and the roads are swarmed with refugees. Harry guides his family into the hills, and they take refuge in a cave. But are they safe? And will Harry, protecting his family, lose touch with his own humanity?A young Paul Gleason appears as the first gas station attendant.
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Panic in Year Zero! / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
Panic in Year Zero! / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: In 1962 you still couldn't quite say it on a motion picture screen, but it's heavily implied that Andy, one of the trio of goons, raped Karen. Then when Harry and Rick come after the rapists, they find a young woman named Marilyn there, looking disheveled in a bed and wearing only a slip; the thugs have been keeping her there since they murdered her parents.
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Panic in Year Zero! / int_37faae83	type	Noble Shoplifter
Panic in Year Zero! / int_37faae83	comment	Noble Shoplifter: The Baldwins come to a gas station where the owner is taking advantage of the disaster to charge an outrageous (for the time) price of $3/gallon for gasoline. (It used to be 34 cents.) After trying and failing to reason with him, Harry knocks him out, takes the gas, and leaves enough money to pay for the gas at what he considers a fair price. Later, Harry pulls a gun on Johnson the hardware store owner when Johnson won't take a check for the guns and ammo. Harry leaves Johnson with an I.O.U.
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Panic in Year Zero! / int_45092c28	type	Greaser Delinquents
Panic in Year Zero! / int_45092c28	comment	Greaser Delinquents: Andy and Mikey, the two younger members of the rapist/murderer trio. They have the leather jackets and slicked hair and are wont to use "hip" slang like "Somebody dropped a bomb—crazy kick!" They're led by Carl who is too old to be a greaser.
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Panic in Year Zero! / int_4856ac40	type	Stock Footage
Panic in Year Zero! / int_4856ac40	comment	Stock Footage: At one point the Baldwins, who are trying to cross a major highway so they can reach the remoteness of the mountains, are blocked by an unending stream of traffic. The highway traffic is shown by awkwardly spliced-in stock footage.
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Panic in Year Zero! / int_4ec4c5ab	type	Harsher in Hindsight
Panic in Year Zero! / int_4ec4c5ab	comment	The Baldwins come to a gas station where the owner is taking advantage of the disaster to charge an outrageous (for the time) price of $3/gallon for gasoline. (It used to be 34 cents.) After trying and failing to reason with him, Harry knocks him out, takes the gas, and leaves enough money to pay for the gas at what he considers a fair price.
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Panic in Year Zero! / int_53968093	type	Wet Blanket Wife
Panic in Year Zero! / int_53968093	comment	Wet Blanket Wife: Ann is this for much of the movie, freaking out when Harry does things like punch a gas station attendant, calling him a "cheap hoodlum" and continually second-guessing his decisions. Eventually she takes a level in badass, carrying a rival herself and shooting at the hoodlums that raped Karen.
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Panic in Year Zero! / int_7fd8b16a	type	Year Zero
Panic in Year Zero! / int_7fd8b16a	comment	Year Zero: A news update on the radio reports that the United Nations has deemed this world after the nuclear war to be "Year Zero".
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Panic in Year Zero! / int_8a1215e0	type	Bratty Teenage Daughter
Panic in Year Zero! / int_8a1215e0	comment	Bratty Teenage Daughter: Karen characterizes the global thermonuclear war that has just devastated her hometown and killed all her friends and extended family with a whine of "This whole thing is a bore, such a drag!"
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Panic in Year Zero! / int_8bf8adfa	type	Just Before the End
Panic in Year Zero! / int_8bf8adfa	comment	Just Before the End: Played With. At first it seems like this trope is in effect, as civilization breaks down, people begin looting gasoline and food, and the Baldwins are left hiding out in a cave and shooting deer to survive. But this trope is averted in the end as the U.S. Army is shown restoring order.
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Panic in Year Zero! / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
Panic in Year Zero! / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: The Baldwins are stopped on the road by a trio of thugs that pull a gun on Harry, and seem to be about to rape the women when Rick wings one of them with a shotgun. Harry disarms the other thug and the Baldwins drive away—only to run into the three thugs later, at the camping grounds, raping and murdering.
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Panic in Year Zero! / int_980f7fac	type	Hit So Hard, the Calendar Felt It
Panic in Year Zero! / int_980f7fac	comment	Hit So Hard, the Calendar Felt It: The United Nations officially declares that the world is in "Year Zero" after the nuclear war.
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Panic in Year Zero! / int_994b9db5	type	Screw the Rules, It's the Apocalypse!
Panic in Year Zero! / int_994b9db5	comment	Screw the Rules, It's the Apocalypse!: Subverted. Harry does whatever he needs to do to keep his family safe, but he tries to pay for the stuff he acquires (it's when the guys trying to sell him figure out the nuclear war gives them free reign to fleece him that things get violent) and when Rick tries to bring up this exact point Harry says that no, civilization will bounce back to normal and he will stop acting like this the moment it does (and he makes do on said promise in the epilogue).
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Panic in Year Zero! / int_aef5c283	type	Off-into-the-Distance Ending
Panic in Year Zero! / int_aef5c283	comment	Off-into-the-Distance Ending: Ends with the Baldwin car driving off down the road, only a few miles away from the Army medical station where Rick can get his lifesaving transfusion.
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Panic in Year Zero! / int_b5b4c0cf	type	The End
Panic in Year Zero! / int_b5b4c0cf	comment	The End: The rather odd title at the end says "There must not be an end—only a new beginning."
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Panic in Year Zero! / int_bdd7fd6b	type	These Hands Have Killed
Panic in Year Zero! / int_bdd7fd6b	comment	These Hands Have Killed: Andy and Mikey certainly had it coming, since they killed at least four people and they also raped both Marilyn and Karen. But Harry is still shaken up after he shoots them, telling Ann "I killed two men."
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Panic in Year Zero! / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
Panic in Year Zero! / int_bfb5f597	comment	Money Is Not Power: Harry figures out that this may happen so after he sees the bombs fall his plan is to go to a town far away from the main road that they hopefully still had not gotten news of the bombs dropping so he will be able to purchase goods for his family's stay somewhere away from the fallout (he still has to come to blows with people trying to fleece him). Later on he makes a plan to bury some supplies away from the cave he and his family are living in and use them to negotiate with anybody who tries to take a family member hostage — Karen ties to do this when she encounters the greasers a second time, but they don't want food from her.
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Panic in Year Zero! / int_e3847ee8	type	Cigarette of Anxiety
Panic in Year Zero! / int_e3847ee8	comment	Cigarette of Anxiety: Harry is nearly run off the road by a car that zooms past him at high speed and then lurches back over into his lane. After this he asks Rick to light him a cigarette.
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Panic in Year Zero! / int_e543a655	type	Light Is Not Good
Panic in Year Zero! / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: The Baldwins are confused to see blinding flashes of light as they drive up into the mountains. It's atomic bombs falling on Los Angeles.
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Panic in Year Zero! / int_f4c0f8d5	type	Emergency Broadcast
Panic in Year Zero! / int_f4c0f8d5	comment	Emergency Broadcast: At first all the radio stations are off the air but eventually Harry starts picking up a series of increasingly dire reports about the cities of the United States being devastated by nuclear war.
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Panic in Year Zero! / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Panic in Year Zero! / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: For a given degree of happy. Harry has killed two people, Karen was raped, and it seems that Ann's mother back in Los Angeles is probably dead. But the Baldwins have survived, they rescued Marilyn from a trio of rapist goons, and they have avoided radiation sickness, and it seems order has been restored and society won't collapse. On the other other hand, many people are suffering from radiation sickness, and obviously untold millions are dead.
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Panic in Year Zero! / int_fe614133	type	Beauty Is Never Tarnished
Panic in Year Zero! / int_fe614133	comment	Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Rick and Harry first discover Marilyn in a disheveled state, wearing only a slip, in the farmhouse where she has obviously been raped by a trio of thugs. But the next morning, after they have rescued her and taken her back to their cave, Marilyn is looking quite nice indeed, with combed and styled hair and even with fake eyelashes. Karen is also still looking clean and pretty in the aftermath of her rape.
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