Product Details

• Actors: Gene Barry, Lydia Clarke, Michael Moore, Nancy Gates, Lee Aaker
• Directors: Jerry Hopper
• Writers: Sydney Boehm
• Producers: Joseph Sistrom
• Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: Unrated
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Paramount
• VHS Release Date: November 11, 1998
• Run Time: 85 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302658756
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #292,945 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

From the back cover

Nuclear physicist Frank Addison (Gene Barry) and his wife are living a nightmare: their son Tommy (Lee Aaker, know to '50's TV fans as Rusty in The Adventures Of Rin Tin Tin) has been kidnapped. The ransom demand: the secrets behind the H-bomb! The desperate scramble to rescue Tommy unfolds at a rapid pace in The Atomic City. Real-life locations--from the Los Angeles streets to Santa Fe cliff dwellings--provide the vivid backdrops for this taut thriller that, wrote Bosley Crowther in The New York Times, "is made for suspense and excitement, and those are what it gives."

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Was nominated for an Academy Award - Best Writing, Story and Screenplay, December 28, 2006

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Tuco (Phoenix, Az USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Atomic City [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Here is a much lesser known 50's sci-fi with a little different twist. An atomic researchers son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of the the Father's atomic secrets.

This is a tightly knit atomic sci-fi thriller with great production values and above average acting, even from the kid. The Atomic City actually has a movie feel to it unlike a lot of other 50's sci-fi of this time which which came off more like an episode of a TV show.

The Atomic City was also actually nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay - how many other 50's sci-fi can tout an Academy Award Nomination?

Great pacing, tight direction and some superb location filming in the 'real' Atomic City of Los Alamos, New Mexico make this one worth hunting down. The collectors print in circulation is an above average transfer and makes for a great double feature with the Atomic Man!!

Recommended

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific fun, October 15, 2006

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Brian S - See all my reviews

This review is from: Atomic City [VHS] (VHS Tape)

A wonderful old fashioned scary face paced science fiction film. Paramount takes such good care of their prints and this video shows it!

5.0 out of 5 stars Dad LOVES it, March 4, 2011

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EmilyRB - See all my reviews

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Atomic City [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I purchased Atomic City [VHS] for my dad's 54th birthday. He'd put it on his Amazon Wish List, and it frankly was one of the nice movie things I could afford. I queued him in on it, he said he'd love to get it, and I ordered. I received it within a week of online purchase, and dad has watched it several times since his birthday. It had a few small wear-and-tear signs of being an older video cassette, but it was in pretty good shape for its age, and had a reasonably set price like so. I've also recently purchased a 15-year-old car off CraigsList, which exhibits like age-related signs of wear-and-tear, but is a great car with only 88,000 original miles and I LOVE it like dad loves the movie. Both have served the purchaser very well.