I've only seen this film a few times when it was shown on Showtime in the mid 80s. It's a chilling and realistic film about children in a suburban school caught in the middle of what they suspect is a real nuclear attack, although the reality of it is never actually confirmed. I was impressed with the quality of the writing, the direction and the solid acting of the cast, all prominent New York actors then, with good local reputations for their work no stage and in 50s television, but none of them stars yet. What thrilled me most was that I had known two of the child actors, the two Howard brothers, playing brothers in the film, and seeing them again looking just as they did then was a moving experience for me.
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