YMMV / Rocket Attack U.S.A.

• Anvilicious: A general sighs, "If only we had an operating anti-missile device, we could give some hope to those people out there." Stupid government, spending its time on cheese price support!
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The scene with the blind man.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Or Harsher in Hindsight - yeah, the military needs more money from the US government.
• No Budget: The film was done so cheaply, it's hard to believe it's a 1961 film, more resembling one of the roadshow films of The '40s.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Producer/director Barry Mahon would become more infamous among MST3K/RiffTrax fans as the one behind such horrors as Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny.
  • Jane Ross plays the truck driver's (Art Metrano) wife. She is better known as Tamoon from the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Gamesters of Triskelion", and was mistaken for Bea Arthur so much that television history books claimed "Jane Ross" was a pseudonym for Arthur.
  • Art Metrano himself would best be known as Lt. Mauser from the Police Academy films.
• Special Effects Failure: Several.
  • The cartoonish shots of Sputnik flying through space and the Russian missile as it makes its way towards New York City.
    • Especially of note is the missile's base spinning in space; the axis appearing to be outside the missile.
  • If one watches carefully when the "British" spy is pulled into the living room set, one can see the wall behind the door.
  • The actual, physical missile has no shadow in cutaway, appears to be made of plastic, and looks to be poorly cemented to the ground.
  • The Russian soldier who saves the missile from the bomb obviously doesn't blow up- the film abruptly zooms in, making the cut apparent.
• The Woobie: The helpless blind man who says "Help me!" was intended as one. Instead, it just comes off as baffling.

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