Arch Oboler was an oddball innovator: he created Bwana Devil, the first 3-D movie; a color process called Space-Vision, and a film genre that imagined the unimaginable. Five is the original post-apocalypse film, tracking the lives of all those who survive after a war has vanquished the world's population but left the cities intact (the neutron bomb?). Dazed and pregnant, Roseanne finds her way to a mountaintop cabin where Michael, a former New Yorker, is stalwart in his solitude. They are joined by three others: a bewildered bank manager, a sneering European adventurer, and the last black man on earth. Ensconced in their Frank Lloyd Wright digs (!), the "five" try to talk themselves into a brighter tomorrow, free from yesterday's misdeeds. Alas, jealousy and discord, holdovers from the old order, make their presence known. Five is quite a blast from the past.-Steve Seid