Captive Women

Captive Women
Directed by Stuart Gilmore
Produced by Jack Pollexfen
Aubrey Wisberg
Written by Jack Pollexfen
Aubrey Wisberg
Starring Robert Clarke
Ron Randell
Margaret Field
Gloria Saunders
Music by Charles Koff
Cinematography Paul Ivano
Edited by Fred R. Feitshans Jr.
Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures Inc.
Release dates
  • October 10, 1952 (1952-10-10) (US)[1]
Running time
64 min
Country United States
Language English

Captive Women is an American science-fiction film from 1952 that stars Robert Clarke and Margaret Field. The movie is fairly short, only 64 minutes and is in black-and-white. In 1956, it was re-released by the name 1000 Years from Now.[2] In the United Kingdom the movie is known as 3000 A.D., the film's original title. It deals with the effects of a nuclear war and how life would be afterwards.

Plot

The story takes place in New York City in a post-apocalyptic setting. Two tribes, the "Norms" and the "Mutates", fighting in the remains of the city. They later band together to fight a third tribe, the "Upriver People", who are invading Manhattan through the Hudson Tunnel in order to steal the other tribes' women.

References

  1. "Captive Women: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved May 31, 2014.
  2. Parla, Paul; Mitchell, Charles P. (2000). Screen sirens scream!: interviews with 20 actresses from science fiction, horror, film noir, and mystery movies, 1930s to 1960s. McFarland. p. 96. ISBN 0-7864-0701-8.

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