Gradyville, PA is located in Delaware County, PA, right next to the city of Philadelphia. Gradyville is actually a section of a town called Edgemont. Gradyville is pretty much just like it looks in the film, not exactly the most exciting place in global history. Good little backdrop for the film, though. I think maybe a number of people kinda missed the point of the film. No firm conclusions can be drawn from the film's ending. The viewer really has no way of knowing what happens in the final moments of the movie. But this picture I think
goes a long way to showing the mistakes that could be made when people jump to conclusions, and don't think things through completely. It's all about panicking, and not really trying to deal with stressful situations logically and rationally. The picture is also reminiscent of an episode of the original Twilight Zone TV show, where the people in a whole town, or a section of a town, jump to some of the same conclusions as the people in this movie. Also, makes a comment about the people, who, back in those days, built these shelters in their back yards, and stocked them with food and other supplies; all as we were to eventually find out, for nothing. Looking back on those days, the whole thing seems kinda comical. Of course, if those people had turned out to be right, and there was some kind of nuclear holocaust, they all would have looked like geniuses. cambridgejohnny@comcast.net
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