***SPOILERS*** It's a slow news day when ace reporter Mr. Halloran Harold J. Stone,for the local town newspaper decides to spice things up a bit. That's by getting his newspaper to print up a headline that the world is going to end at exactly 11:45 that very evening! That's with the planet Mars going off its course and smashing into the earth obliterating it along with every living creature on it including the entire human race! It's made to be a joke for local rummy Johnny, Russell Collins, who's always hanging around the bar looking for free drinks provided to him by bar patrons like Mr.Holloran.
Sure enough Johnny falls for the joke and knowing that he, and the earth, has less then three hours to live runs around town doing things that he never dreamed of doing before. Like him robbing a liquor store and breaking into an Army/Navy sport store and giving a number of homeless street kids, whom he has tag along with him, all the toys and goodies, basketballs baseballs bats gloves and guns,that they always dreamed of having. It's during the break-in at the sports store that Johnny ends up gunning down the night watchman or security guard Joseph Marr, who tried to stop him and the kids from raiding the place. That in him feeling that the security guard didn't have that long to live anyway with the world and everyone on it about to expire Johnny soon realizes how wrong he was! In seeing at a newsstand all the newspaper headlines having nothing at all to do with the world coming to an end that very evening!
***SPOILERS*** With revenge on his mind and blood on his hands, in killing the security guard, Johnny storms back to the bar where Mr. Halloran and his friends are still packing it, booze & beer, away. It's there at exactly 11:45PM That Johnny pays Mr.Halloran back in full for the practical joke that he pulled on him. A joke that had turned Johnny's life around for the worst and ended his!
Sure enough Johnny falls for the joke and knowing that he, and the earth, has less then three hours to live runs around town doing things that he never dreamed of doing before. Like him robbing a liquor store and breaking into an Army/Navy sport store and giving a number of homeless street kids, whom he has tag along with him, all the toys and goodies, basketballs baseballs bats gloves and guns,that they always dreamed of having. It's during the break-in at the sports store that Johnny ends up gunning down the night watchman or security guard Joseph Marr, who tried to stop him and the kids from raiding the place. That in him feeling that the security guard didn't have that long to live anyway with the world and everyone on it about to expire Johnny soon realizes how wrong he was! In seeing at a newsstand all the newspaper headlines having nothing at all to do with the world coming to an end that very evening!
***SPOILERS*** With revenge on his mind and blood on his hands, in killing the security guard, Johnny storms back to the bar where Mr. Halloran and his friends are still packing it, booze & beer, away. It's there at exactly 11:45PM That Johnny pays Mr.Halloran back in full for the practical joke that he pulled on him. A joke that had turned Johnny's life around for the worst and ended his!