Radioactive Dreams is a 1985 post-apocalyptic science fiction-comedy film written and directed by Albert Pyun and starring George Kennedy, Michael Dudikoff, Don Murray, and Lisa Blount.

[2] The names of the two main characters are homages to noir detective fiction icons Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler and Mike Hammer.

[3][4][5][6] The film begins with two boys growing up in a fallout shelter, in an attempt to escape a nuclear war.

Two children, Philip Chandler (John Stockwell) and Marlowe Hammer (Michael Dudikoff), are left in a fallout shelter cut into the side of a wooded mountain.

Where I practiced my magic, Marlowe, his dancing; where we both dreamed of becoming private eyes, just like the ones we'd read about.Marlowe hopes to find their fathers, but Philip is disgruntled that they never returned, and presumes that they are dead.

The first people they find are a trio of radiation-burned mutants chasing a beautiful woman, Miles Archer (Lisa Blount).

Miles leaves, and the pair are immediately attacked by a biker gang of bald women in red wigs.

They rescue another young woman, Rusty Mars (Michele Little), from a group of armed children Philip nicknames "disco mutants".

After Rusty apologises again for lying to him and originally handing him over to the cannibals he says, "That was a million years ago, and I got a short memory.

In the closing narration, Philip explains that they plan to set up shop as detectives, but that first he will find Rusty and see if he can repair his relationship with her.

The exceptions are Zim Bim Zowie, a swing number, and also a tune in the American Songbook style, Daddy's Gonna Boogie Tonight, played on a phonograph during the scene when Philip and Marlowe prepare to leave the fallout shelter.

The film was given a limited release theatrically in the United States by De Laurentiis Entertainment Group in September 1986, grossing $220,038 at the box office.