* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The paperboy walking in while the hero and his LoveInterest gaze into one another's eyes. However the staging does help foreshadow the reveal that it's AllJustADream later.
-->'''Paperboy:''' ''(From off-screen)'' [[ExtraExtraReadAllAboutIt Ex-tra, Pa-per, America invaded, read all about it!]] ''(Comes onscreen from behind the couple, stares openly at the couple, turns around, walks off-screen while repeating previous line.)''[[note]]'''Mike:''' ''(guffawing)'' Now ''that's'' a walk-on![[/note]]
* BrokenAesop: To defeat Communism, cede your time, money, businesses, and even identity to your government and country. In other words, [[StartXToStopX defeat communism with more communism]]! Near the beginning of the film, the tractor manufacturer even explicitly refers to the universal draft ''as'' communism.
* CaptainObviousReveal: Once you realize that Mr. Ohman is hypnotizing the bar patrons with his decanter of wine at the beginning of the film, the AllJustADream ending becomes all too telegraphed.
* HeadScratchers: It's AllJustADream and everyone snaps out of it at the same time, but everyone is killed at different times throughout. What are the dead experiencing while the living are waiting their turn?
* NightmareFuel: For all the film's excessive StockFootage, misplaced PatrioticFervor, and [[ArtisticLicenseMilitary misunderstanding of Nuclear Weapons]], the imagery of familiar American landmarks being bombed-out and conquered by "The Enemy" is chilling... until the ridiculous AllJustADream ending, at least.
* RetroactiveRecognition: Both actresses who would later go on to play Lois Lane in TV's ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperman'' (Creator/NoelNeill and Creator/PhyllisCoates) are in this movie.
* ValuesDissonance: The whole film plays like a xenophobic fantasy, filled with hysterical appeals to emotion (the old [[RapeAsDrama "THEY'LL COME FOR OUR WOMEN"]] chestnut[[note]]Though invading soldiers DO tend to violate women[[/note]] appears in the last minutes of the dream) and backstabbing foreigners that are of course [[DirtyCommunists commie Double Agents]]. And most JustForFun/{{egregious}}ly, the apparent Aesop that, in order to combat The Forces of Communism, one has to cede everything to the government to protect us... which the producers don't seem to understand [[TheHorseshoeEffect is essentially Stalinism in practice]].
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