Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
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Goodman Ace
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Jane Ace
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Ann-Margret
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Ngo Dinh Diem
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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John Lennon
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Paul McCartney
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George Harrison
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Ringo Starr
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Walter Brennan
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Walter Cronkite
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Bing Crosby
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Phyllis Diller
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Dave Garroway
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Arthur Godfrey
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Stewart Granger
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Bela Lugosi
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Dean Martin
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Edward R. Murrow
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Jack Nicholson
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Richard Nixon
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Ralph Richardson
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Gordon Scott
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Howard K. Smith
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Robert Vaughn
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Allison Hayes
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Yvette Vickers
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George Fenneman
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Groucho Marx
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Steve Allen
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Dick Clark
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George Burns
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Brett Halsey
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Jackie Joseph
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W.C. Fields
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Alfred Hitchcock
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David Love
The Lone Ranger (archive footage)
Clayton Moore
Tonto (archive footage)
Jay Silverheels
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Gordon MacRae
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Andy Devine
Superman/Clark Kent (archive footage)
George Reeves
Lois Lane (archive footage)
Noel Neill
Robin Hood (archive footage)
Richard Greene
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Alfie Bass
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Bud Abbott
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Lou Costello
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Lon Chaney Jr.
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Leo G. Carroll
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Art Linkletter
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George Raft
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Lucien Littlefield
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Kay Kyser
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John Wayne
Fu Manchu/Dracula (archive footage)
Christopher Lee
Wyatt Earp (archive footage)
Hugh O'Brian
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Walter Winchell
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Mamie Van Doren
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Elisha Cook Jr.
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Elsa Martinelli
Kubla Khan (archive footage)
Anthony Quinn
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Vincent Price
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Peter Lorre
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Boris Karloff
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Basil Rathbone
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Frankie Darro
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Harpo Marx
Molly (archive footage)
Marian Jordan
Fibber McGee (archive footage)
Jim Jordan
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Jeanne Crain
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Elvis Presley
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John Carradine
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Buffalo Bob Smith
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Chuck Connors
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Johnny Crawford
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Alan Ladd
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Loretta Young
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William Bendix
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Victor Sen Yung
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Dolph Sweet
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John Agar
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Conway Twitty
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Sammy Davis Jr.
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Noah Beery Jr.
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Peter Fonda
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Hugh Marlowe
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Joan Taylor
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Gail Patrick
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Ozzie Nelson
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Harriet Nelson
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David Nelson
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Ricky Nelson
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Marlon Brando
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Jayne Meadows
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Dion DiMucci
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Broderick Crawford
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Fred MacMurray
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Morris Ankrum
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Peter Graves
Hopalong Cassidy (archive footage)
William Boyd
Bonnie Parker (archive footage)
Faye Dunaway
Clyde Barrow (archive footage)
Warren Beatty
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Zeppo Marx
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Eric Burdon
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Sammy Petrillo
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Glenn Langan
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Richard Denning
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George O'Hanlon
Captain Ahab (archive footage)
Gregory Peck
Blondie (archive footage)
Penny Singleton
Dagwood (archive footage)
Arthur Lake
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Rod Serling
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Jackie Gleason
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David Brinkley
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Jimmy Durante
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Ed Sullivan
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Annette Funicello
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Roy Rogers
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Dale Evans
Jimmy Olsen (archive footage)
Jack Larson
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Clint Eastwood