Plot SynopsisOpening Credits and Introduction of a Disturbed Salon Manicurist Carol:The opening image during the title credits was anexternalcloseup of an eyeball, with the film""s title REPULSION rolling over, rotating and wrapping around the eyeball from right to left to the sounds of a two-note drumbeat...6:15 p.m.Sound detectors and seismographs registered explosion due east.At 6:18, magnetometer revealed deviation 12 degrees, 20 minutes east...Such deviation possible only if a disturbing force equivalent o 20,000 tons of steel or iron ore...had become part of the Earth at about a 50-mile radius."Hendry hypothesized that it was a large meteorite, but Carrington""s aide Dr.Will Redding (George Fenneman) explained how a special telescopic camera had picked up evidence of radioactivity, suggesting it wasn""t a meteor:"On the appearance of radioactivity, a Geiger counter trips the release and the cameras function.This great film was nominated in three Academy Award categories, including Best Supporting Actor (Robert Stack who should have won, but lost to Anthony Quinn forLust for Life) and Best Song ("Written on the Wind"), with Dorothy Malone aking home the Best Supporting Actress Oscar (her sole career nomination and win) for an overacted slinky, catty role as a sex-obsessed, wild, nymphomaniacal, provocative member of the Texas oil dynasty""s family.Poster taglines trumpeted: "Alfred Hitchcock engulfs you in a whirlpool of terror and tension! - He Thought His Love Was Dead, Until He Found Her in Another Woman.The two battled back and forth between the grid towers, with neither of them gaining the upper hand, until Gwen (after releasing herself from the car hood) arrived and slammed into Electro with the police squad car.