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title: "Split Second"
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# Split Second

**Brand:** stephen mcnallyalexis smithdick powell
**Price:** E£ 2703
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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Split Second

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Atomic Age Cop and Robber Drama
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2017*

A very intense early movie about  criminals holding civilian hostages in a deserted town that will be used in an atomic bomb test in Nevada the next moring. The criminals believe that the police won't search,the town before the test time which will be at 6:00 a.m. There is tremenmdous drama between the crimminals inside a room in the town as a cat an mouse develops between the criminals and the hostages. As fate would have it, the atomic test is moved up to 5.00 a.m. wothout everyone knowing it, and there is ony 15 minutes till it happens. The movie climaxes as the criminals race to get out of the test town and the hoistages need to find refuge somwhere before the explosion.I leave the ending to the viewers so as not to spoil the climax..

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Alexis and the A-Bomb
  

*by B***S on Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2019*

Somewhere, in the recesses of my mind, I had a vague memory of a scene from an old black-and-white movie in which Alexis Smith and a carload of hoodlums hightailed it through the desert fleeing the impending detonation of an atomic bomb. I must have watched this on the late, late show at some point during my childhood but that particular scene stayed with me even though nothing else did. Many years later, in an online movie discussion group, I brought up the scene and one of the members suggested that it might be a somewhat neglected film from the fifties called "Split Second". Without further adieu, I located the DVD on amazon and promptly ordered it. Sure enough, this release from the Warner Brothers film archive is the film I'd been racking my brain over for several decades. Happily, it didn't disappoint.The story of a trio of escaped killers who hole up in a desert ghost town with a handful of hostages while the clock ticks down on a nearby A-Bomb test,  "Split Second" is a tense, sturdy little thriller that doesn't get bogged down in too much exposition. Stephen McNally is terrific and menacing as the chief bad guy, a violent, horny and unblinking sociopath who reminds me a little of Bogart in his bad-guy roles, and is every bit as believable. Paul Kelly and Frank de Cova convincingly play his partner's-in-crime, while Keith Andes makes a determined foe in the role of a reporter who doesn't flinch from the trio's threats and intimidation. In an early role, the lovely Jan Sterling plays a dancer Andes picks up along the way, and Arthur Hunnicut is slyly amusing as a local desert-rat. And then there's Alexis Smith as the philandering wife on the run with her latest lover (a full-of-baloney Robert Paige). Smith, at her glamorously slutty best playing this almost-femme-fatale, manages to remain self-centered and cunning to the very end.Filmed in 1953, "Split Second" was former song-and-dance man Dick Powell's directorial debut, and the movie demonstrates an assurance honed by several decades in Hollywood.  There have, apparently, been some points of contention, one of which involves the screenplay turning McNally's character into too much of a philosopher (and thus slowing things down). Personally, I don't find this to be an issue at all. There have always been philosophic villains in movies, and here, I just thinks it adds another layer of interest to this character without much affecting the pacing.  Reminiscent of movies from "The Petrified Forest" to "Let The Corpses Tan", "Split Second" is a worthy, professionally crafted mid-level thriller that is entertaining without being too taxing.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    It’s a super, early Nuke movie with well-know actors and great suspense!
  

*by D***A on Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2022*

Love this early “Nuke “ movie.  Suspense was great!

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