KING OF THE SWITCH ENDINGS
A highway patrolman stops a few cars for an emergency. "This is Not a Test" refers to that emergency. It isn't a test. It's a real nuclear attack.
A motley group of seemingly ordinary people deal with the fact that they are in what they consider "Ground Zero", smack dab between some obvious targets.
Except there's a wild card in the mix. One of the people in this story is a homicidal maniac. And that's where the switch ending comes in. Things are not what they seem.
A very low budget film, with the biggest name being Ron Starr, whose only other big film was Peckinpah's confirmed masterpiece "Ride the High Country".
This film delivers, though, in the end, although there is a suicide during the movie that seems a bit contrived, but other than that, this is a very good screenplay, and it's good drama and good theater. Although there isn't a lot of action, there is a lot of animation and the appearance of action that keeps the viewer glued to the story.