Day the World Ended

Day the World Ended
Directed byRoger Corman
Written byLou Rusoff
Produced byRoger Corman
Alex Gordon (exec. prod.)
StarringRichard Denning
Lori Nelson
Adele Jergens
Mike Connors (as Touch Connors)
Paul Birch (actor)
Raymond Hatton
CinematographyJockey Arthur Feindel
(as Jock Feindel)
Edited byRonald Sinclair
Music byRonald Stein
Production
company
Golden State Productions
Distributed byAmerican Releasing Corporation (ARC)
Release date
  • December 8, 1955 (1955-12-08)
(Detroit)
Running time
78 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$96,234.49 [1]
Box office$400,000 (part of double feature)

Day the World Ended is a 1955 independently made black-and-white post-apocalyptic science fiction film, produced and directed by Roger Corman, that stars Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, Adele Jergens, Paul Birch and Mike Connors. Chet Huntley of NBC, later of The Huntley-Brinkley Report, served as the film's narrator. It was released by American Releasing Corporation (later American International Pictures) as a double feature with The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues.

The film's story centers on a heroic scientist who, with a small band of other survivors, faces off against a radioactive mutation following an atomic war that appears to have destroyed most of human civilization.

  1. ^ Gordon, Alex (May 1983). "The Pit and the Pen of Alex Gordon". Fangoria. No. 27. p. 37.