Latenight they’re showing a Twilight Zone episode from 1963/64. It’s after the bombs have dropped, and the opening shows a ragtag band of survivors debating whether or not they can eat a stash of pre-nuke canned food.
The Road, anyone?
I love that the programming people at Sci-Fi decided to broadcast this the same week as Cormac McCarthy’s Oprah appearance (liveblogged by Ed Park). Sadly, I was driving during the interview, and I’m too bleary to find it on Oprah’s site.
The best part: not the computer not the ignorant men that would destroy it. It’s the year this Twiglight Zone dystopia is set: 1974.
Without Googling or looking anything up, this is “The Old Man in the Cave,” is it not? (Yes, I’m a geek. Name an apocalyptic film and I’ve probably seen it.)
Yep, it is “The Old Man in the Cave,” with James Coburn as a bullying soldier. (you wouldn’t have had to google — the link goes right to it).