Dan O'Herlihy is a hip medium who hypnotizes a bunch of disparate people in a bar in NYC and shows them what life would be like if the Commies invaded. Overrelies on stock footage for the first half -- although some of this stock footage is pretty awesome, frankly. The second half gets wilder, as we see Congressman running from Commie bullets, Communists trying to debate fine points of dialectical reasoning with sullen factory owners, a President who's only shot from the back, and a television anchor and a débutante trying to get some nookie in during the festivities. Interesting for it's portrayal of Communists as brutal subhumans or oily connivers; for it's innocent assumption of what atom bombs really were; and for the classic propaganda factor -- this is America gearing up to fight the Cold War. Not really a good movie but an interesting one.
Review of Invasion, U.S.A.
