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3->''"We cannot let this be... the end."'' [[note]] [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Oh yes, we can!]] [[/note]]
4-->-- '''The Narrator''', at the film's ending
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6What starts as a dull 1961 spy flick abruptly turns into a UsefulNotes/ColdWar propaganda piece when it turns out Sputnik has given the Soviets a decisive edge in the arms race.
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8For the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode see ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S02E05RocketAttackUSA here]]''.
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11* UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents: Courtesy of Art Metrano.
12* ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics: If a nuclear bomb, even a small one, were detonated in Manhattan, the outer boroughs would ''not'' be unaffected.
13* BigApplesauce: The last scenes take place in New York City -- and the Big Apple is indeed about to be turned into the Big Applesauce.
14* BadBadActing:
15** Tanya. She sounds like she's just reading the script.
16** The actor playing the blind man was just given one line: "Help me!" It was intended to engender pity and sadness, but his DullSurprise delivery and bad timing just makes it bizarre and baffling.
17* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The spy flick portion of the movie ends in failure as the attempted bombing of the Russian missile site fails and all the western spies are captured and killed. New York City is destroyed by an atomic bomb, with the implication that America is going to retaliate and the world is going to be destroyed.]]
18* DullSurprise: Many, thanks to the bad acting. The topper is a blind man wandering through the streets, who asks for someone to help him with absolutely zero emotion behind it.
19* EiffelTowerEffect: The Russian planners work in a room with a nice view of St. Basil's Cathedral.
20* TheEndOrIsIt: Inverted, as seen in the page quote. Rather than asking if this is the end, [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle the narrator insists that we can not let this be the end]].
21* HalfwayPlotSwitch: Starts off as a spy flick involving an attempt to destroy a Russian nuclear missile. After the spies fail the last half becomes a glurge-filled propaganda film about New York City being nuked.
22* HollywoodTactics: So... UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity is nuked... and the Russians think they can get away with it... why? And nuking ''one'' city helps Russia with what...? And the international community will just let it happen...?
23** According to the narrator during the Russian conference, bombing New York City will give full control of the United States to them. Say ''what''?
24* HuskyRusskie: Who bears some resemblance to Tor Johnson.
25* {{Joisey}}: One scene takes place in the township of Hazlet, located in Monmouth, NJ.
26* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: The "English" spy who helps John and Tanya.
27** The "Russian" interrogating him doesn't have an accent either.
28* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/InvasionUSA1952''.
29* TalkingHeads: Almost the entire film are people talking, including the Soviets (without subtitles, no less.)
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