Oboler

Yet, the film is more than that and I don't think it's fair to label Oboler's earnestness as naive, especially when sophistication has done such a piss-poor job of thwarting mankind's bad choices.

Five on the blast hand side Arbogast 2009

In what would be the biggest coup of his life, Lampkin introduced Oboler to The Creation by James Weldon Johnson, composer of the spiritual Lift Every Voice and Sing and convinced Oboler to include excerpts of it in the script.

Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Dreams From My Grandfather 2009

In a plot point that will sound awfully familiar by now, FIVE begins in medias res, on "the day after tomorrow," with nuclear warfare having devastated the surface of the Earth, leveling cities Oboler relies on cost effective stock footage of various world landmarks - Big Ben, the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower - over which he blows black smoke and reducing nearly 100% of the global population to bleached bones.

Five on the blast hand side Arbogast 2009

In Oboler, the injured plaintiff fell when he tripped over a "depressed manhole cover" and subsequently brought suit against the City of New York.

NY Court of Appeals 2007

I can't entirely defend Arch Oboler against the critical charge of pretention and I'm not really interested in doing so.

Five on the blast hand side Arbogast 2009

For Oboler, there would be only five survivors after a nuclear war.

Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Dreams From My Grandfather 2009

In Oboler, the injured plaintiff fell when he tripped over a "depressed manhole cover" and subsequently brought suit against the City of New York.

Personal Injury 2007

Multi-talented Jewish-American radio playwright Arch Oboler (1907-1987), a giant from the Golden Age of Radio, accepted the challenge.

Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Dreams From My Grandfather 2009

Okay, I'll grant you that FIVE, which Oboler wrote, produced, directed and shot at his own Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home in Malibu, is a through-and-through polemic - an at times gassy diatribe about man's inhumanity to man and the epidemic disregard that has, while not resulting in a Whoops Apocalypse per se, at least pointed humanity toward its most lamentable and horrific transgressions.

Five on the blast hand side Arbogast 2009

(This collection of essays won the Eli M. Oboler Award for best publication of the year on issues of Freedom of Speech from the American Library Association).

Alienated Law Students After Law School 2006