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Movie
The Atomic Kid
Synopsis
The Atomic Kid strives mightily to wring laughs from the otherwise humorless topic of atomic radiation. Mickey Rooney (who also produced the film) and Robert Strauss play a couple of brainless prospectors who stumble upon a A-bomb testing site. Led to believe that the area is rich with uranium, Strauss goes off to stake a claim, while Rooney relaxes in a "test" house. Before long, a bomb is dropped, a mushroom cloud sprouts in the desert. . .and Rooney emerges from the rubble unharmed. Later on, however, our hero discovers that he's so full of radiation that he glows in the dark, which makes him both dangerous and world-famous. The plot then veers into Cold War territory as Rooney routs a nest of Soviet spies, led by Robert Emmet Keane. The leading lady of the proceedings is Elaine Davis, Mickey Rooney's then-wife (her marital status, transitory though it may have been, was emphasized in the film's opening credits) Believe it or not, this monumentally unfunny comedy was based on a story by Blake Edwards.
Cast
- Mickey Rooney
- Robert Strauss
- Bill Goodwin
- Hal March
- Elaine Davis
- Whit Bissell
- Joey Forman
- Peter Leeds
- Fay Roope
- Stanley Adams
- Robert Emmett Keane
- Bill Welsh
- Charles Conrad
- Milton Frome
- Don Haggerty
- Dan Riss
- Ray Walker
- Peter Brocco
- Robert Nichols
- Allan Ray
- Paul Dubov
- Slick Slavin
- Frank Richards
- Tommy Walker
- Billy Snyder
- Sig Frohlich
- Guy Way
- Dick Winslow
- George Mather
- John L. Russell Jr.
- John Fenton Murray
- Frank Hotaling
- Howard Wilson
- Maurice Duke
- Fred Allen