Post-DOCTOR STRANGELOVE nuclear comedy involving the adventures of Ewing and Bonner as a pair of amateur skin divers who find a hydrogen bomb accidentally dropped from a B-52 bomber into the ocean just off southern California. They decide, in jest to blackmail every citizen of Los Angeles
into sending one dollar to a Swiss bank account or risk the detonation of the bomb. The two are caught and must contribute their ill-gotten $2 million to the cause smog control in return for leniency by the court. Ewing and Bonner are funny as the two would-be terrorists and carry the premise well
to its conclusion. Some scenes drag on longer than necessary.
Released:
1972
Rated:
PG
Length:
85 mins