What happened after the bomb?

They all died, that's it.

Realisticlaly, the trailer woudln't have sheltered htem fromt he blast, so they all died.

The only possible survivors where the Granddaughter and the nice guy who went wiht her intot he mine, asusmign they got to the mine on time.

I just never understood why Grandpa didn't tell them to get into the mine at the start, all of them could have driven to it.


Unless its a moral "Bad people die" sort of ending.

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A what???? Sorry I thought you said this film needed a sequel, oh you did. Can I suggest that you may have missed the POINT?

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It would seem that only those in the mine of which Grandpa's party was seeking had any chance at all. The truck was a only the most flimsy of false hopes. Grabbing at useless straws. (Like when the Coyote holds up a tiny paper umbrella to protect himself from a giant falling boulder in a Road Runner cartoon)


I suspect the dog's death was written in to emphasize the the "I only care about myself" attitude which would prevail in a real scenario such as this. The killer, a dog (metaphorically) killing a dog (literally). Hence, their little area had now become a "Dog eat Dog" world.


Actually, I'm just guessing here but BOY! This is fun!!

I think anyone watching this in 1962 assumed, as I did, that everyone and everything was toast. This movie broadcast on one of the Albany, NY TV stations around 1963 and I saw it as a child (of 6 or 7). It was the first movie I ever saw where apparently nobody survived. I kinda just stared at the screen confused at "the end"

<What happened to those in the trailer?
What happened to the boxer cop outside the trailer?
What happened to the looters that took the blonde adulteress?
What happened to the granddaughter and the young guy? Did they make it to the cave?>

The people in the trailer, the looters, the cop and Grandpa as well as any of the others out in the open all died, not from the blast, but from the fallout.
If they reached the cave in time, and stocked it with food and water, the granddaughter and her boyfriend had a pretty good chance of surviving.
Contrary to what a lot of folks think, nuclear war was and is survivable, but only if certain things were done. And a mine shaft would be an ideal shelter from the standpoint of radiation.

*What happened to those in the trailer?
Oven-roasted.

*What happened to the boxer cop outside the trailer?
Flame-broiled.

*What happened to the looters that took the blonde adulteress?
Same as the cop.

*What happened to the granddaughter and the young guy? Did they make it to the cave?
Maybe, if they didn't take too long gathering supplies. Best-case scenario, they inhaled/ingested fallout once they left the cave, and died of cancer 10-20 years later. Many worse-case scenarios would be plausible between this and the worst-case scenario.

*Did Grandpa enjoy the blinding flash and accompanying heat blast?
Probably not.

*What happened to Clint and his beloved suitcase?
Toast.

*What happened to that bitchin''60 Thunderbird?
Molten slag.

*Why did Timmy REALLY have to die? (ARF! ARF! YIP! YIP!)
Beats me. The cop killed him in order to conserve air, then invites the looters - who would consume much more oxygen - to join them in the trailer. Not a math nor zoology major... I guess that's why he became a CHiP. But maybe a quick broken neck would have been more humane than any other option available to Timmy.

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"You can't drop an atom bomb on Chicago! - Peter Graves, "The Beginning Of The End"
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I shutter to mull the OP's question!