Name The Monster Movie

[Mike Scott]

Is it set in San Fran?

[Monsters For Sale]

Is it set in San Fran?

No.

[Dirty Ernie]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers?

[Monsters For Sale]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers?

Nah.

(I thought I was dropping a quick easy one in while we waited for Mike to post a puzzler.)

[Mike Scott]

(I thought I was dropping a quick easy one in while we waited for Mike to post a puzzler.)

If it ain't SF, I don't know what it is.

[Mike Scott]

Is it a post-apocalypse movie?

[Monsters For Sale]

Is it a post-apocalypse movie?

N-o-o... 

But you have ALL seen it.

[RedKing]

Geez..I don't know, but I am betting it'll be one that we all slap ourselves and say-"Duh!"

[Monsters For Sale]

Geez..I don't know, but I am betting it'll be one that we all slap ourselves and say-"Duh!"

Yes.

[Mike Scott]

Does the person get a credit, besides "woman on street"?

[Monsters For Sale]

Does the person get a credit, besides "woman on street"?

Oh, yes.

[Dirty Ernie]

Can you drop us a hint without giving it away?

[Memphremagog]

It's either Target Earth or Indestructible Man...

[Monsters For Sale]

It's either Target Earth or Indestructible Man...

It is "Target Earth".

The screen capture is in the middle of Kathleen Crowley's solo walk, looking for another human being.  But it is not a post-apocalyptic film.  There are lots of people - they were just evacuated.

The whole thing was shot in Los Angeles.  Some of it along the "Miracle Mile" on early Sunday mornings, before the 1954 denizens were up and stirring.

Reviewers routinely identify the setting as Chicago.  I don't think that is right.  I don't believe the name of the city is ever identified in the movie.  I think they make this mistake because the source story, "Deadly City" IS set in Chicago.  In both stories the main male character states that he had arrived on the train from Detroit the previous day.

It's one of my favorite little films.  I can't watch it without remembering watching it in the theater as a brand new release when I was 7½.  I still see it that way.

[Memphremagog]

Anybody want to hazard a guess?