- A henpecked book lover finds himself blissfully alone with his books after a nuclear war.
- Henry Bemis loves to read. The only problem is that he can find neither the time nor the place to enjoy his pastime. At work, his boss has let him know in no uncertain terms that he is not to read during working hours. At home, his shrewish wife won't even let him read a newspaper, let alone a book. One day, he sneaks down to the vault in the bank's basement to read a bit and suddenly, there is a huge explosion above. He emerges to find the world destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. He does find books from the library and he sees a great deal of reading time ahead of him. Except for one small unintended event.—garykmcd
- The bank clerk Henry Bemis loves to read but his nagging and selfish wife Helen Bemis does not let him read in his leisure time. Henry tries to read at work in the bank, but his boss Mr. Carsville threatens to fire him. One day, Henry sneaks in the bank vault to read and out of the blue, there is an explosion. When Henry leaves the place, he finds everything destroyed but the National Library full of books. Henry selects the book to read for the next years, but a tragic incident happens.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Henry Bemis (Burgess Meredith) is a bookish bank teller who has a childlike fascination for the written word...any written word be it books, periodicals, newspapers. He delights in taking any moment to read, through his incredibly thick "coke-bottle" glasses, even on his salaried time. He is consistently harrassed by his wife, customers and boss for his love of print to the point that he must sneak into the bank's vault where he works to read on his lunch hour. During one such visit, a nuclear bomb blast levels his city, leaving him unscathed, whereupon he exits to find that he has "time enough at last" to read all he wants when he finds the local library's contents scattered about. At this point, (warning: spoiler!) he stacks the books into towers and rejoices in the solitude that will allow him to read everything he can...but in reaching for a particular book, his glasses slip off his face and smash....leaving him to mutter: "That's not fair... that's not fair at all... There was time now.... There was..all the time I needed!.. It's not fair". The scene then closes with the image panning away from a crying Bemis.
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