Rocket Attack U.S.A.
Rocket Attack U.S.A. (1961)

Rocket Attack U.S.A.

1/5
(85 votes)
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One of the Russian soldiers is armed with an American Browning Automatic Rifle.

The rest of the Russian soldiers are also incorrectly armed with bolt-action rifles, since the AK-47 had been adopted as the standard issue rifle six years prior to the events in the movie.

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For an example of a fun movie to spend an hour with, see TRAPPED BY TELEVISION from 1936. On the opposite end of the spectrum, if you want to spend that hour in abject misery you should watch ROCKET ATTACK U.

*This review contains shoes* Strange but fascinating cold shoe war pseudo-documentary about the Ruskis getting a hold of the atomic shoe quicker than the US. Not being Russian or American (I'm a Samoan-Glaswegian cobbler) it's hard to get a handle on why sending a shoe into space was such a big deal but I guess that if you can fire a plimsole into space, you can fire a whole load of radioactive trainers at your enemy.

Barry Mahon was a terrible filmmaker who was responsible for a lot of films normal folks don't wanna watch today. Crap films like "Cuban Rebel Girls", "Rocket Attack USA" and many cheap porno films were his claim to fame and if you are a bit crazy, you can download "Rocket Attack USA" for free from archive.

Plot: Cold War era American spies go into USSR to get rocket secrets. Silly script, bad actors, cheap sets, ridiculous scenes that make no sense.

American spy John Manston (insipidly played by John McKay) goes to Moscow to find out about the Russian missile program. He discovers that the Russians have amassed the necessary data they need to make a nuclear weapon.

American secret agent John Manston (John McKay) is sent to Russia to locate and destroy an inter-continental ballistic missile before it can be launched at New York.Rocket Attack U.

OK, this isn't bad on the order of say, Monster A-Go Go, but it is still one crappy movie. The Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957 and pretty much freaked out all of America.

The only name you will recognize from the cast of Rocket Attack USA is that of Art Metrano who came to be a respected character actor most noted for being Captain Mauser in the Police Academy films. I'm sure he must have shuddered with horror at being associated with this monstrosity of a Cold War era film made to exploit the paranoia surrounding the Sputnik launching.

Holy hell, this just might be the most tedious movie ever made. Stunningly wooden performances, incomprehensible logic, a hero so incompetent he manages to get himself and the alleged love interest gunned down in the act of failing to attach a bomb that Wile E Coyote would sneer at to the one rocket the cardboard Russians manage to build....

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