 Productions, and distributed in the United States by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation.The film was distributed theatrically in 1956 on a double bill with "World Without End" (and in some areas with "Invasion of the Body Snatchers").Told in a narrative style, popularized by the television police series "Dragnet", by police detective Dick Chasen (Max Showalter), the story concerns a 72-hour period of horror for the city of Los Angeles.