# "Alas, Babylon" to be shown at UCLA

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 15, 2015, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alas-babylon-to-be-shown-at-ucla/715033 "2015-03-15T04:53:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2015, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alas-babylon-to-be-shown-at-ucla/715033/1 "2015-03-15T04:53:25Z")

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The 1960 _Playhouse 90_ production of _Alas, Babylon_ will be shown on March 28 at UCLA as part of their “Festival of Preservation”. I thought there might be Dopers in the area who’d be interested. If I lived in LA, I’d be going.

[https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2015/03/28/playhouse-90-alas-babylon](https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2015/03/28/playhouse-90-alas-babylon)

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2015, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alas-babylon-to-be-shown-at-ucla/715033/2 "2015-03-15T05:06:57Z")

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If I still lived in L.A., I’d go! I had no idea they’d made a movie. I’ve liked the book since I read it in high school.

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**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2015, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alas-babylon-to-be-shown-at-ucla/715033/3 "2015-03-15T08:34:52Z")

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Cool. I read the book in High School. I thought they should make a movie of it. I imagined myself in such a situation, even though I lived very close to several megaton targets.

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**Author:** ![Parenchyma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Parenchyma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Parenchyma)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2015, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alas-babylon-to-be-shown-at-ucla/715033/4 "2015-03-16T00:15:19Z")

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Also a huge fan of this book since I was a teen.

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**Author:** ![May\_20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@May\_20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/May_20)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2015, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alas-babylon-to-be-shown-at-ucla/715033/5 "2015-03-16T01:18:02Z")

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I had no idea this fabulous book had been made into a movie, though I should have. This is one of the first “grown-up” books that I shared with my daughter. She loved it and has re-read it a couple times.

We would go to see the movie if we were in LA. _sigh_

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**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2015, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alas-babylon-to-be-shown-at-ucla/715033/6 "2015-03-16T02:58:19Z")

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If anyone’s going, could you ask whoever’s in charge if this will make it to DVD or to TCM or another movie channel? Please?!!?