The Atomic Kid (1954)

Directors

Leslie H. Martinson

Cast

Mickey Rooney, Robert Strauss, Whit Bissell

The story

While uranium prospector Barnaby "Blix" Waterberry is in the desert, eating a peanut butter sandwich, he wanders into an active atomic bomb test site and is accidentally exposed to radiation from a direct overhead A-bomb blast. He miraculously survives, becoming radioactive, and in the process gaining special powers. He is then recruited for his powers by the FBI to help break up a spy ring.

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