All language subtitles for Invacion.U.S.A.1952

Chicago Cubs beat the
Pittsburgh Pirates six to three.

Ladies and gentlemen,
I'll have a complete

sports roundup for
you in just a moment.

Tim, another bourbon.

Coming right up.

Here's the news bulletin
from the nation's capital.

Washington officially
this morning denies

rumors of enemy planes
over northern Alaska.

Meanwhile, there's been no
lessening of international tension and

informed sources refuse to
discount the possibility of all-out war.

Shut that thing off, I got
enough war talk at home.

Yeah, you can say that again.

Meanwhile, in Italy, the
communists caused another riot...

Quiet, jerk!

As communists marched on Rome-

That'll hold you.

I wish I could keep him that
quiet when he comes in here.

Customer of yours?

Yeah, the TV station's
right down the street.

And what do you
think the lug drinks?

A shaved flip.

Oh, you must know him, huh?

No.

Then you've seen him in here?

No.

Well, then, how did you know-

He looks like the sort of
person who'd take a shaved flip.

Say, he does at that.

Hi, Tim, how about a beer?

Why sure, ain't
you working today?

Yeah, but I thought I'd
work in a nice cool bar.

Mind if I start with you, sir?

My name is Potter, Vince Potter.
I'm a commentator for station TVNY.

Would you mind answering a
question for tomorrow's program?

You gonna use it on television?

That's the idea.

Well, uh, gosh I'll be glad to.

Good.

First, I'll get your
name and address, huh.

Ed Mulfory, Boulder
County, Arizona.

Arizona. Occupation?

I'm a cattle-raiser.

Cattle-raiser.

Now, here's today's question,

are you for or against
the universal draft?

Now, by that I mean
draft everything

soldiers for the
army, factories for war

work, labor for factories,
the whole business.

Well, there's too much
government in business already.

You take cattle, now.

One bureau shoves the cost of feed up
and another keeps the price of beef down.

That's why I cut my herd
down to 3,000 head this year.

No.

I'd have raised 5,000 if they
hadn't put price controls on.

Another bourbon.

And do they soak you
with those income taxes.

Oh, brother.

You pay a high income tax?

Plenty.

You must make a
great deal of money.

I do all right.

Well, down with taxes.

What would you like, honey?

A scotch over ice.

You know, I don't know why
you New Yorkers drink scotch.

Stuff tastes like
medicine to me.

What do you drink
in San Francisco?

A daiquiri.

That sounds like
a sissy drink to me.

I just like the cracked ice.

Scotch and a cracked ice.

I beg your pardon.

I'm Vince Potter.

Yeah?

At television station TVNY.

Oh, yes.

I'd like to ask you
both a question

but, first, may I
have your name, sir?

Sylvester, George Sylvester.

Your occupation?

I'm a tractor manufacturer.

Tractor maker.

Your name?

Miss?

Miss Sanford, Carla Sanford.

Telephone number?

Rhineland 1717.

Now, look here.

It's all right, George.

I listen to Mr Potter every Friday. His
program's very popular in New York.

So is he evidently.

Thank you.

Now, here's tonight's
question, Mr Sylvester.

Are you for or against
the universal draft

army, labor,
factory, everything?

Draft factories,
that's communism.

Communism.

That's a good quote.

They tried that on me last week

but I told them
where to get off.

Last week, where was that?

My plant.

They sent an army
major in to see me.

It would take me six months to
get in production on these tank parts,

in the meantime, what would
happen to my tractor sales?

The army needs
tanks, Mr Sylvester.

Oh sure, I'd like to hear you
tell that to some of my dealers.

If your dealers are
good Americans,

they'll know that tanks are
more important than tractors.

All they know is if they don't get
tractors to sell, they're out of business.

If an enemy nation conquered America,
they'd be out of business for good.

Fat chance.

I'm sorry, Major. I'd like
to accommodate you,

but I've spent 10 years in
building up my sales organization

and I'm not going to throw it
away to do the government a favor.

Mr Sylvester, if
people like you won't

cooperate with your
government willingly,

the day may come when
we'll be forced to take

over your plants without
asking your permission.

Over my dead body.

Now, let me tell you
something, Major,

the people of this country will
never stand for a police state

and you can go back to
Washington and tell them that for me.

Yes, sir, just because he
was wearing a major's uniform,

he thought he could threaten
me but I sure told him off.

You sure did.

How about you, Miss Sanford?

You believe in drafting
women as well as men?

Well, it all depends on
what you want to draft us for.

- War work.
- Huh?

I mean labor in a munitions
factory, for instance.

I worked in a factory for
a while during the last war.

It ruined my hands so I quit.

Another drink,
Tim, for everybody.

Excuse me gentlemen
and young lady,

Harroway is my name.

Congressman Harroway.

I'm just in New York
for over the weekend.

It's a pleasure to meet you.

Well, it's nice to know you too.

Valuable work you're
doing, young man,

seeking the voice of the people.

I believe in it, that's the American
Way, the Democratic way.

Thank you, sir.

That's Arthur Harroway,
isn't it, of Illinois?

Arthur V., thank you, young man.

You won't mention the locale
of our interview, of course.

Oh, of course not.

Some of my constituents
might not understand, you know.

Uh, well, gentlemen speaking
of the voice of the people,

I don't believe that anyone hears it with
the same regularity as a congressman.

Hundreds of letters
coming in every week.

People telling you what
they're for, what they're against.

Let me tell you
what they're against,

they're against communists.

Yes, sir, they want communism
destroyed wherever it rears its ugly head.

Another thing the
people don't like is war.

No, sir, they don't
like war at all.

They don't want it.

Thanks.

Are you against war, sir?

Yes, I'm against it.

Thank you.

Another thing the people
don't like are these high taxes,

sending all that
money to Europe.

Yes, sir, what my constituents
want are lower taxes.

Do you want lower taxes?

Oh, none at all.

Maybe I better get you
in this symposium too?

May I have your name, sir?

My name is Ohman.

Ohman.

Oh, yeah, like the
bandleader O-H-M-A-N, isn't it?

- It will do.
- Uh-huh.

Your occupation, Mr Ohman?

I am a forecaster.

Weather forecaster.

And what do you
think of the draft?

I think America
wants new leadership.

New leadership, what kind
of leadership do you suggest?

I suggest a wizard.

A what?

A wizard like Merlin,

who could kill his enemies
by wishing them dead.

That's the way we like
to beat communism now,

by wishing it dead.

The manufacturer wants more
war orders and lower taxes.

Labor wants more consumer
products in a 30-hour week.

The college boy
wants a stronger army

and a deferment for himself.

The businessman wants a bigger
Air Force and a new Cadillac.

The housewife wants security
and an electric dishwasher.

Everybody wants a strong America

and we all want the
same man to pay for it.

George, let George do it.

Ah, I disagree with you.

I don't want to
let George do it.

You must be the exception.

No, I'm George.

Oh, that's a hot one.

Everyone wants George to do it.

Except George.

A very good joke but wars
are not won by making jokes.

To win a war,

a nation must concentrate.

What's that guy yakking about?

Something's big going on.

Speak up, jerk.

No longer a rumor,
the blue alert is on.

No official word
from Washington yet.

Official word on what?

But here's a news
bulletin from United Press,

a wireless operator
from Seal Point, Alaska,

reports over 500 planes were
seen at 4:20 this afternoon.

500 planes?

What kind of planes?

They passed over Seal Point at an
altitude of 10,000 feet heading south.

A dispatch from Washington,

all military leaves
are canceled.

Members of the Armed Forces are to report
to the nearest headquarters immediately.

This sounds serious.

I gotta get back to the station.

Goodbye.

Everybody.

Nome, Alaska, more than 50 reports from all
over the territory have now been received.

Hundreds of unidentified aircraft are
unquestionably moving south across Alaska.

The latest report comes from
the seaport of Peace Harbor.

Our planes are here.

Attention all
civilian air personnel

report any observations on
the identity of the approaching

planes to the Alaskan
High Command immediately.

- I repeat...
- Here they come.

Attention all
civilian air personnel

report any observations on
the identity of the approaching

planes to the Alaskan
High Command immediately.

Can you see their markings?

Not yet.

They're coming at us.

Paratroopers,
assemble north of field.

Pull that flag down.

Peace Harbor calling Nome.

Peace Harbor calling Nome.

The enemy...

Here.

Hurry those bombs.

Here is our headquarters.

Here is the target
for group A for Atlas.

B for Berlin.

C for Canada.

D for Dover.

This is Knox Manning
again, ladies and gentlemen.

Unconfirmed reports
state that our jet

fighter planes have
already engaged the enemy.

From the United Press
correspondent in Fairbanks Alaska,

it's now certain that the United States
has been attacked without warning.

Three civil airports in
Alaska have been captured,

a dozen more don't
reply to urgent radio calls.

There's a great deal of
static in the northwest,

probably, due to enemy
jamming of the airwaves.

The big mystery now is why
have no cities been attacked?

Why did the enemy
throw away surprise

yet failed to drop a
single atom bomb?

He's captured all
civilian airfields in Alaska.

Why?

He must plan to use them for
staging an attack on our factories,

our cities, our shipyards
and our airfields.

He's made several
attacks on the Pacific Fleet

but was completely wiped out.

G2 reports that the attacking forces
are wearing American uniforms.

Well, the question now is
he going to use his A-bomb?

There is the
airfield, make ready.

All right, you guys, scramble.

This is it.

There they are, enemy planes.

Ahead is airfield.

Make ready to bomb.

Bomb's away.

Bomb's away.

And so, ladies and gentlemen,
the long-awaited blow has fallen.

The atom bomb has been dropped
on the United States of America.

Washington 10:30 p.m.,

the Joint Chiefs of
Staff are now in session.

So far, there have been official
reports of only three A-bomb drops,

Fletcher Field, Alexander
May and Custer Field.

But unofficial information is to the
effect that additional military objectives

have been hit in the northwest
and on the Pacific coast.

The bombs used are
reported to be nearly as strong

as the American bomb
dropped on Nagasaki.

We now interrupt this news summary
to take you to Washington DC.

And so, another day of infamy has
come within your lifetime and mine.

Thousands of Americans have
died, victims of this treacherous attack

but it will not go unpunished.

At this very minute,

hundreds of our fastest bombers are
speeding toward the enemy's homeland.

We shall bomb their
bases and their army,

their factories
and their railroads,

their harbors
and their oil fields.

Our own atom bomb,

more powerful that many
of the world has ever known,

will wreak a terrible
vengeance upon that nation

whose long threat to
the peace of the world

today became a reality.

And while our bombers are carrying
the war to the enemy's homeland,

American fighter planes

and the Air Arm of our fleet,

are valiantly defending the
shores of our Pacific Coast.

Pilots, man your planes.

Pilots, man your planes.

Where's the enemy?

Look at those swept-back wings.

Strike!

So, I call upon all
Americans to join ranks

in this bitter struggle
with the forces of evil,

forces that will never rest

until they have
conquered the earth

or are themselves conquered by the united
strength of the free peoples of the world.

Had enough?

Turn it off.

Where's the congressman?

He left for Washington
a couple hours ago.

How about the fellow, Ohman?

He's gone too.

Can you imagine those guys
attacking the United States of America?

Yeah, well, we'll shove
it down their throats.

This is it, the final game of the
World Series and we're the home team.

Give me a beer, Tim, while
I got some voice left, will ya?

- Hi.
- Hi.

Is it as bad as it sounds?

Worse.

What's the inside dope, Vince?

Well, we've lost part of
the state of Washington,

about 50 military
airfields in the west.

They were knocked
out by atom bombs.

It was like a modern
Kamikaze attack,

no matter how many planes we shot down,
they kept coming until one got through.

Our Navy Air Arm is operating
from carriers off the coast of Oregon.

They've taken a terrific
toll of enemy planes.

How about the
cities in California?

- You mean San Francisco?
- Yeah.

Hasn't been attacked yet.

Thank god for that.

But they hit a shipyard in
the state of Washington.

- 20,000 dead.
- Oh, no.

Oh, yes.

But what are they up to?

I mean, they wouldn't just drop
a few bombs and let it go at that.

Well, there was a rumor that they were
dropping parachute troops near Puget Sound,

in American uniforms.

Turn it on again, will you, Tim?

We were trying to pick up a Tacoma
station by microwave when I left.

Do you think there'll
be an actual invasion?

I wish I knew.

It's hard to believe, isn't it?

I mean that this is
actually happening to us.

Yeah, right here in
the United States.

Look at that.

More than 2,000
enemy paratroopers

dropping in a semicircle
around the supply depot.

Itself has been destroyed
by an atom bomb.

The National Guard
is being mobilized

and civilians are meeting the
invasion with calm courage.

Here's another remote control
view from our portable equipment.

Here are regular
American troops,

survivors of the
bombing of Camp Lewis,

fighting with the
invading paratroopers.

This is probably the first picture
ever taken of American soldiers

shooting at an invader
on American soil.

Here's the target

enemy paratroopers landing
in the field near Puget Sound.

We are taking these
pictures from station TVWN's

portable cameras,
equipped with telescopic lens.

But even so, our
mobile unit is within a

quarter of a mile of
the actual battlefront.

There goes one.

But it will take more
than a handful of riflemen

to hold back the thousands
of well-equipped troops

who are dropping out of the skies
above us here in the state of Washington.

We're having trouble
with our picture.

I hope our microwave is
getting through to the east.

We want all Americans to know...

Ladies and gentlemen, our connection
with Tacoma has been broken.

We will restore it,
if and when we can.

Meanwhile, here is official
confirmation of an earlier rumor.

Washington DC,

the Department of Defense
announces that the Pacific

shipyards have been
destroyed by atom bombing.

The same bomb smashed
the business district of the city

with casualties estimated
between 20 and 50,000.

I guess I'd better get
back to San Francisco.

- You think it's safe?
- It's my town.

You're gonna try
for an airplane ticket?

- That's what I had in mind.
- I think I'll go along with you,

see if I can get
one for Arizona.

When I get back home,
I'll tell Edna that I'm not

likely to forget my
dinner date with a cousin.

Oh, dinner, I
haven't fed you yet.

You go find your plane ticket.

I'm not hungry anyway.

You'll see that she
gets home safe?

I'll make it my
personal responsibility.

Goodbye then.

Take care of yourself, George.

Good luck.

This is an emergency
announcement.

This is an emergency
announcement.

Every able-bodied citizen
is requested to report to

the nearest hospital to
give blood for the Red Cross.

It's a nightmare.

This can't be happening.

It was a cinch to happen.

Last time I met a girl I really
liked, they bombed Pearl Harbor.

What happened to the girl?

War ended.

Extra paper, America
invaded. Read all about it.

Extra paper, America
invaded. Read all about it.

Extra!

Okay, thanks.

Sorry, nothing for New Orleans.

Anything for Minneapolis?

Nothing for Minneapolis.

Anything for Omaha?

All flights for Omaha
are sold out, sir.

Well, how about tomorrow?

- Tomorrow and all next week.
- Oh.

I wonder if you can help me,

my wife is very ill in Dallas.

I can get you a reservation
a week from next

Tuesday but you'll
have to get a priority.

Here's where
you apply for it, sir.

Could I get a ticket to
Gardner Field, Montana?

Gardner Field, Montana?

That's right.

Is this a business trip?

No, I want to go home.

My husband's there and
my children, they're with him.

I'm sorry, madam, all flights to
Gardner Field have been discontinued.

Discontinued?

For how long?

I'm afraid permanently.

There hasn't been an attack?

Early this morning.

Was it...

Was it serious?

An A-bomb.

I don't think we'll
do any good here.

You know, there's a bellhop at
my hotel, knows all the angles.

Maybe this isn't
the time for angles?

You're right.

Any chance to get
to Phoenix or Tucson?

All sold out.

How about San Francisco?

Still a few spaces left,
if you can get a priority.

- Apply for it here.
- Thanks.

I think I'll try for San
Francisco with you.

Maybe I can rent a car
there and drive home?

Fine, come along.

I'd like a ticket to Seattle.

I'm sorry.

Gentlemen, are you sure you
understood my instructions?

We have lost air groups eight and nine
and there are still two fields remaining.

Here and here.

You know our plans,

regardless of loss, it's constantly
two air groups on each one.

Strike immediately
with atom bombs.

Yes, excellency.

And order the attack on San
Francisco placed in the ready stage.

Immediately, excellency.

New York Flight 289 to San Francisco
Tower request landing instructions.

Howard to TWA Flight
289, land on strip three.

This is KRO, San Francisco.

While no A-bombs
have fallen on California,

an unofficial report in
Northern California states that

six ships flying the flags
of six different nations

were intercepted by the
United States Navy and

found to be carrying enemy
personnel and equipment.

Turn it off, will ya, Max?

Anything you say.

The Golden Gate,
there is San Francisco.

Enemy planes, open fire.

What's that?

That is the target.

Bomb's away.

They're bombing us.

There's my plant just up
ahead, pull up at the curve.

This is awful.

How do you like them guys
bombing San Francisco, yeah.

We never got
bombed in the last war.

You never got it brother.

I was in Guadal.

Anybody got a cigarette?

Have a cigar.

Oh, thanks.

Anybody got a light?

That was too close.

What's the chance of hiring
your cab to drive me to Arizona?

Anything to get
out of this town.

Good luck.

And as the sun sets
in the Pacific tonight,

the all clear is sounded in
San Francisco and the city

by the Golden Gate has
survived its first air attack.

No A-bombs were used

and, although, our armed forces
took a terrific toll of enemy planes,

serious damage to San
Francisco cannot be denied.

Meanwhile, this station
will bring you the latest

news developments
as rapidly as they occur.

Keep tuned to this channel
for further development.

- More coffee?
- Please.

You know, it's funny,
the world's coming to an

end and you and I are
sitting here having dinner.

What's more, I was hungry.

I know what you mean.

Every once in a while I forget
what's happening in the world.

I feel good as if I
just met a new beau.

You have.

One I like very much.

He likes you even more.

War or no war, people
have to eat and drink

and make love.

News bulletin.

A special meeting of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff has been called in Washington.

There have been no further reports
of bombing from the west coast

but an unconfirmed
report maintains...

Gentlemen, we've just
smashed his largest A-bomb plan.

Their next bomb?

Four of them.

Our B-36 has
reached target at 2,300.

They blew a hole right
through the middle of his plan.

How many workers there?

About 50,000.

How many casualties
would you estimate, general?

Oh, I'd say at
least half of them.

Well, what will happen if he hits New
York, Chicago, the way we hit him?

It'll be tough.

He's landed
paratroops in California.

The enemy is dropping parachute
troops on the outskirts of the city.

The army needs these tanks.

We got to get on 'em and
repair 'em and do 'em fast.

What about the tractors
on the production line?

Oh, get them out of the road.

Dump 'em in the bay, anything.

Let me emphasize, it is touch and
go, whether we can hold the city.

A dozen tanks one way or
another can make all the difference.

We'll get 'em ready fast.

Tell the men they're on a 24-hour
shift until those tanks are repaired.

24-hour shift, for what?

To make more money for you?

We don't have to work
for this rat anymore.

He's finished.

All the capitalist
rats are finished.

Why don't you drop dead?

Why does he want to make tanks?

For profit!

When he could make more money
building tractors, he'd build tractors.

Up, up with hands!

Up!

Ah, you are here.

Just in time.

I'm in charge here now.

You were right.

Your men will work a 24-hour
shift until the tanks are repaired

but it is the People's
Army who will use them.

Back on the job.

You will get your orders.

Why do people like you always think you
can beat anybody with your bare hands?

If I had my life to live over.

You would build
tanks in this factory.

Don't worry, you
still have time,

only you will build them for us.

That's what you think.

Shut up!

It would be a
pleasure to kill you too

but my orders are
to keep you alive.

Yeah.

We need this factory, you see

and you know how to run
it better than anybody else.

So, there is only
one thing to do.

You are so dead right and
I'm just the man who can do it.

San Francisco fell
at 12 o'clock today

and the invaders have established
a firm foothold on American soil.

Our military airbases
within fighter plane range of

northern California have
been knocked out by A-bombs

and it is rumored that the
Army is being withdrawn to a

defense line along the western
borders of the Rocky Mountains.

We now switch controls to
Washington DC for an official message.

It is my unhappy
duty to report to you

that, despite heroic
effort by our armed forces,

the enemy invaders have
now secured San Francisco,

Oakland, Astoria-Oregon
and Port Townsend.

To the people of these
cities, I bring this message,

do not despair.

At 10 o'clock this morning,

England and France
declared war on our side.

All the nations included
in the Atlantic Pact

have risen to
defend the free world.

Despite the unprovoked
nature of the attack,

the war has not been as one-sided
as it may now seem to you.

For every atom bomb
dropped on our country,

we have taken three
to the enemy's hard line

and we have huge stocks
of atomic weapons in reserve,

stocks large enough to eventually
crush the enemy on his native soil

and end forever his power to
make war on any nation anywhere.

So be of good courage.

Though we have met the
first shock of aggression

and we have
returned blow-for-blow

and, even as I speak to you,

our Pacific Fleet is carrying the
conflict to the enemy's home line.

Target the carrier.

Fire one.

How do you feel?

I feel great.

How much of the red
stuff did you take out?

Just a pint.

Next time, I'll
give you a fifth.

All right, come around
in about 12 weeks.

Next.

Hi, honey.

Hey, what you doing here?

Oh, I thought I'd spare
you a few red corpuscles.

Swell, I can use them.

Tried to join the
Air Force today.

They didn't take you?

90,000 guys are trying to join
now that it's too late to train men.

What they need is equipment.

What we need is blood.

You sure you know
what you're doing, huh?

Please.

That's cold.

Don't be such a sissy.

Hello.

I...

Sorry.

That's better.

Make a fist.

Okay.

You know you're beautiful?

We're ready.

Does she know what
she's doing with that thing?

- You can trust me.
- Yeah, don't trust,

I trust. You I don't trust.

You know, all we want to do is
see what goes on in your vein.

All over America,

long lines are forming in front
of Red Cross blood bank centers

but authorities estimate that another
five million pints are needed immediately,

even more if there are atom-bomb
attacks on the major centers of population.

It was sure great to talk to
my kids from Boulder City.

Take the first
turn to the right.

Not far to go, huh?

We'll be home in 10 minutes.

You'll be home, brother, not me.

I got a new flag over my home.

That's too bad.

You got any family
in San Francisco?

Just me and the cab.

I'll give the two of
you a job on my ranch.

Oh, thanks.

Look at those bombers.

I'm sure glad we've
got a lot of them.

Sorta.

Jet bombers with
swept-back wings, I got you.

We've just intercepted a
jet attack headed this way.

They think maybe
the dam's the target.

How many planes, how far away?

How many planes?

I got you.

Last seen at 6C
for Charlie, got it.

About a dozen jets
120 miles west of here.

They've shot down most of them.

What's that?

That's them.

Post 327 to command.

Post 327 to command.

Enemy jets approaching
Boulder Dam.

Enemy jets approaching
Boulder Dam.

Enemy planes coming in.

Open fire.

Enemy jets attacking dam.

What's that?

Kinda like something blew up.

Emergency announcement.

Enemy planes are
attacking Boulder Dam.

I repeat, enemy planes
are attacking Boulder Dam.

Attention all citizens,

Boulder Dam has been
destroyed by enemy action.

Evacuate all low
ground immediately.

Attention all citizens.

Step on it, we got
to get to my family.

There they are.

Daddy, look at my new doll!

- Daddy, daddy!
- Get in the car fast!

The dam's gone!

The dam?

Yes, they bombed it.

Boulder Dam,
get in quick, hurry!

Water will be a 100 feet
deep here any minute.

What happened? What happened?

Those bombers that just
flew over, they weren't ours.

Can't you go any faster?

This is as fast as it'll go!

Mummy, I'm scared.

Shh, darling.

Here it comes!

Faster, faster!

Destruction of Boulder Dam
by an atomic missile today

was only the
culminating disaster

in what will go down in
history as Black Friday

for the United
States of America.

At 10:27 this morning
off the coast of California,

an American warship was the
victim of another new atomic weapon

when the carrier, Crown Point,

suffered a direct hit
by an atomic torpedo.

First victim of a weapon that threatens the
very existence of the United States fleet,

the Crown Point waged
a gallant fight for survival

but, at 5:20 this afternoon,
the fire reached her boiler room

and Captain Headley gave
the order to abandon ship.

Meanwhile, flames swept the
entire state of California tonight

as the people of
the Pacific Coast put

their industrial
establishments to the torch

rather than allow them
to fall into enemy hands.

Here is a food
warehouse in Oakland

burned to the
ground by its owners

to keep the thousands
of tons of flour and

sugar it held from being
used to feed the enemy.

This is Richmond, California,
land of Western Petroleum.

A million gallons of high-test
aeroplane gasoline go up in flames

to implement the
scorched earth policy

with which a resolute civilian population
is meeting the first invasion of America

since the war of 1812.

Disaster follows disaster

as railroad employees wreck their
own trains to slow the enemy drive.

A steel plant built at a cost of $50
million dollars burns to the ground.

Part of the terrible financial
balance sheet of war,

billions of dollars of property
lost to the American people forever

because we did not provide a strong
enough army to protect ourselves.

I heard they got 10,000
transport planes flying in soldiers.

They probably got half a
million men in California by now.

A fella I know said his
brother heard they had men on

60 ships in San
Francisco Harbor.

Says they landed a couple hundred heavy
tanks and maybe a thousand atom bombs.

The way I figure it's this,

they must know they can't fight
all the way across the United States

so this landing is
just a diversion, see.

I mean they're just waiting for us
to send our whole army out west

then they'll overrun Europe.

Bases, that's what they're
after - airplane bases.

Soon as they get 'em, they'll start to
bomb Pittsburgh, Detroit, places like that.

Man, we sure bombed the
daylights out of them yesterday.

Oh, another drink Tim.

Coming right up.

Oh, how about let
me buy you one?

Hmm.

No thanks.

Might as well have another.

You know what the fellow says,
drink and be merry for tomorrow we die.

Ha, ha, ha, ha!

I'd rather not, thanks.

Hi, honey.

Hi.

How's the blood bank?

It's fine.

We set a new record this week.

You set a record with
me a long time ago.

Give me a beer, Tim, huh?

Well, they turned
me down again today.

The Air Force?

Hmm, Navy this time.

Air Force doesn't want me, army
doesn't want me, Navy doesn't want me.

I want you.

That's the best thing
I've heard today.

I mean it too.

Why wouldn't the Navy take you?

Same old story, more men
than they have weapons for.

Soldier's no good without a gun
and a sailor's no good without a ship.

Don't let it get you down, chum.

Remember old Tim's model.

Let Jack do it.

Jack?

Yeah, George's brother.

Ha, ha, ha, ha!

Oh, you kill me.

Let's get out of here.

Right now?

Right now.

I'm with you.

Hey, Vince, you
forgot your beer.

You drink it.

Why not?

Tim, you're a character.

What are you gonna
do now there's a war on?

Same thing I did in
the last couple of wars,

shake daiquiris.

Emergency announcement,

radar screens have picked up
unidentified aircraft approaching New York.

The Red Alert is on.

I repeat, emergency
announcement.

Unidentified planes
approaching New York.

The Red Alert is on.

You suppose they're really
going to bomb New York?

They've threatened to.

It was on the news wire.

We didn't want to
release it and start a panic.

I'm not afraid.

I'm not afraid at all.

I know what you mean.

I think we were afraid
because we were drifting,

we didn't know
where we were going.

Carla, there may
not be much time left

but, in the few days there are,
I want to spend them with you.

I want that too.

I want it very much.

There they are.

Like London in the blitz.

There is the target.

Bomb's away.

Carla?

Carla!

Tim.

He's dead.

Carla!

Carla!

Carla!

Oh, Vince!

Oh, Vince you're alive!

First estimates indicate
that more than 30,000 dead

were the victims of the
A-bombing of New York City

when an enemy plane
pierced our defenses

and dropped its deadly
cargo late last night

and only the heavy steel and
concrete construction of city skyscrapers

held down the death toll

as more than 50,000 injured
filled New York hospitals alone.

City and state civilian defense
workers are on a 24-hour shift

and aid is pouring into New
York City from every direction.

Any further report on
the New York attack?

Here are some air
pictures of the damage.

About a third of the city
has been quarantined.

Radiation.

How did the radiation casualties
compare with the direct fatalities?

No report on that yet.

What's his purpose?

Why should he capture one small
part of the Pacific Coast and then stop?

He may be stockpiling A-bombs to
hit our industrial centers, in which case,

this may have been a probing
attack to test our defenses.

Today, we make
the critical attack,

10,000 special paratroops.

Every man speak English.

Every man wear
United States uniform.

We attack city of Washington.

Our big generals are there.

All government officers,
we kill these people today.

All soldiers, what
is the word for

In filter?

Oh, yeah, in filter.

Our soldiers in filter
and assassinate.

No one left to give order.

No command for the army.

No leader for the government.

Could the bombing of
New York be a diversion

to keep all our air strength
away from the west?

Oh, it could be.

Perhaps, that's what
he wants us to think?

Perhaps, he'd like us to send everything
west and leave the east coast unprotected?

I don't believe we've
seen his main attack yet.

Put the red alert on everywhere.

One unidentified craft,
section Charlie, zone four.

Looks like a transport.

Yes, that's the third.

Better go after it.

Group three,

rendezvous at section baker.

Get going fellas.

Let's go!

We picked up three
unidentified transport planes.

Big boy.

That's the Joker, one south,
one east and one north.

You sent out interceptors?

After all three.

Don't suppose-

There were no reports
from the west, sir.

Ring pulse 21

Yes, sir.

And so, in this critical hour,

I call upon the Congress
of the United States

to back its military
leaders with the last dollar,

the last man hour of labor,

the last American life.

Hello, hello.

Yes, sir, Outpost 26
calling general headquarters,

priority line.

Hello.

They've landed where?

Yes, yes.

Across the Potomac
in American uniforms.

Stand by for orders.

Double the companies
guarding the White House,

the Capitol, the Senate
building and the House.

Yes, sir.

And have them challenge
everybody, no matter what uniform.

Halt!

Who goes there?

Company B 183rd Infantry.

183rd, that's an
Illinois outfit, ain't it?

Yes, yes, Chicago Illinois.

You ever go see the Cubs play?

Cubs?

Cub is a young animal, a bear.

Sergeant, the guards!
Sergeant, the guards!

Halt, who goes there!

If we as members of Congress

have ever been lacking in
vigor in our nation's defense,

if we have ever failed to realize
the urgency of the nation's peril,

let us be doubly vigilant now.

Let us set an example
of fighting Americanism

for the whole nation to
follow. Let us continue to...

Gentlemen, gentlemen,

the enemy is attempting to
seize the seat of government.

We are surrounded!

Hold on, sorry.

The secretary, gone.

Murdered.

Do you have any casualty
lists of the attack on the Senate?

How many?

Including who?

Thanks, I'll get back to you.

Do you remember
what Senator Baker said

when the Military Appropriations
Bill came up for vote?

He said we could safely
reduce our armed forces by half.

He wasn't only wrong, he's dead.

Enemy demands
surrender of my state or

threatens to atom
bomb our principal cities.

Can you protect me?

Signed, Governor Clayton.

Can you?

How do we stand?

We're driving
'em out of the city.

In another 24 hours, the
government will be safe.

Well, I'm glad to hear that.

Gentlemen.

Gentlemen, they've
invaded New York.

I've been looking out the window
here at our improvised radio transmitter.

I saw hundreds of enemy
troops moving in the streets below.

It's only a matter of minutes before they
find us and take this station off the air.

Vince, they're coming
into the building now.

But, in the little time we
have left, I want to tell you

how proud you can be of the
ordinary citizen of New York.

It seems every man and boy
today has become a guerrilla fighter.

I saw taxi drivers use their cabs as
weapons to mow down enemy troops.

I saw high school boys attack enemy
tanks with pop bottles full of gasoline.

I saw mounted policemen
become a fighting cavalry.

We take over now.

Vince!

Oh, Vince!

The people's
government of America

will take the wealth
from the greedy,

the speculators and the
capitalistic bourgeoisie

and distribute it
among the workers

whose labor will never
again be exploited

for the benefit of the
warmongers of Wall Street.

The people's government
brings the citizens of New York

a new freedom, a
freedom based on order,

a freedom based on loyalty
to the leaders of the party,

your party, which
will work hand in hand

with the Marxist Democratic
leadership of all other nations

so that never again
will war be necessary

among the civilized
peoples of the world.

Darling.

Vince!

I thought they killed you.

They're saving me to broadcast
the glories of the new order.

You're not going to
broadcast for them.

What do you think?

Hey, buster, do you
mind if we sit down?

All right, sit down.

Look.

Look, you guys, don't
you drink whiskey,

good whiskey? I drink
it myself. Over there.

Ah, whiskey. Whiskey good!

You try trick, I kill
you, your woman too.

No tricks, no tricks.

Good whiskey.

Look, baby, I tricked them into
bringing me here. I'm gonna get you out.

You don't know how wonderful
it is just to see your face.

To know that you're alive.

I never thought I'd
see you again either.

Oh, Vince, if we could
just stay together.

We should have met
another time, honey,

a year ago, a month.

A month ago I wanted mink stole.

I thought it was important.

Yeah.

Vince, if I had my
life to live over again.

That's what everybody's
saying, honey.

You drink whiskey too.

Please, no.

She doesn't want any.

Drink!

Listen, honey!

Get out!

Get out of here!

He is dead.

Now, you my woman!

No!

You're alive.

Say, didn't we fly to the west
coast together, you and me?

Oh, yes, what are
we doing back here?

We are in New York, aren't we?

Are you kidding?

The man that was sitting
behind that brandy glass,

where is he?

Ohman?

Well, I guess he left.

Hey, he went out without
paying for his drink.

Do you know who he is?

Well, yeah, he's some
kind of a fortune-teller,

hypnotizes people, he says.

Tells them what's gonna happen.

A phony if I ever saw one.

Am I, Tim?

That's for the drink.

You asked for me, congressman.

Did you enjoy your little
excursion into the future?

Thank you.

Mass hypnotism,
that's what it was.

Exactly.

Then all that stuff about
the enemy taking over

my plant, it isn't
on the level, is it?

It isn't really gonna happen?

It is, unless you do
something to stop it.

Tomorrow springs
from today like,

like water from a rock.

If you want to change
what you will become,

first change what you are.

That goes for everybody.

That goes for everybody.

Good day, everybody.

Well, I guess I better be going.

Maybe make some
of those tank parts.

I'll be going with you
as far as Washington.

I've got some things to do also.

I'm in on this too.

So long, Tim.

So long, fellas,
come back again.

Finished with your drink?

- Yes, but I...
- I'll take care of her.

Is that the way you want it?

Okay, good luck
to the both of you.

I guess it's my turn.

Do you happen to know the
address of the nearest blood bank?

I'll show you the way.

Father of our country,
George Washington, said,

"To be prepared for war

is one of the most effectual
means of preserving peace."