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Boy, some titles are just asking for it...
Also known as Cataclysm (also horribly appropriate) this is one of those that looked so much better on paper. I'm willing to admit that I prioritise watching films where their capsule review sounds entertaining in a crappy sort of way. Sometimes they pay off, other times you're left thinking that, actually, making the premise this boring has got to be harder than making it entertaining.
Putting the film itself to one side, it was written by Philip Yordan, an interesting and controversial figure in screenwriting history. Yordan has an astonishing number of credits and this is because he was one of those writers who allowed his name to be used as a 'front' for blacklisted writers during the HUAC years. Very laudable. But while most fronts were greatly appreciated, the consensus does seem to be that Yordan took advantage. Once the blacklist was over he was still reluctant to apportion credit and, according to some, was quite keen to continue using 'surrogates' to write for him. Now, a lot of this is hearsay - Yordan's word against that of writers like Ben Maddow, but it leads to the interesting situation where in Patrick MacGilligan's interview with Yordan in Backstory, he is given a regular filmography and an 'Anti-Filmography' listing the films he was credited with writing and claims to have written but which others dispute (including Johnny Guitar, the film on which his reputation is based). Even in the regular filmography, 14 films are asterisked to indicate the work of blacklisted writers.
The Nightmare Never Ends is not disputed, which frankly doesn't say much for Yordan. 

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