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Glenn Ford narrates this CBS special about Portland, OR's preparations for nuclear war. It appears to be a dramatization using footage from an actual exercise the city held.



Emphasis appears to have been not on evacuation, but on preserving the multiple heads of the city's government. I won't argue the wisdom of this approach when there very well may have been no city left to govern, but the plan appears to this viewer to have not included near enough pretty young secretaries in the city's remote underground bunker to fulfill the filing and dictation needs of the many saved politicians. I suspect this problem was rectified in the next iteration of the plan.



I consider it essential that any showing of "A Day Called X" be followed immediately by a showing of the cult classic Don Johnson vehicle "A Boy and His Dog", based on the Harlan Ellison story.



Together with that 1975 film, at least a 9/10; alone, only a 6/10.



- October 24, 2010Save Our Government!