The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2017 2:37 pm
Here's a pretty obscure "end of the world" movie from 1959 with an incredibly progressive look at race and society for a movie of that era. I remember seeing this movie as a young man sometime in the early 70s, and it's all been but forgotten since then. I remember being affected by the VERY creepy look of a completely empty New York City. It's a very different take on the last survivor at the end of the world trope.
It's only available as a DVD or on Amazon video as far as I can tell.
There's some really good review on Amazon's site so I'll let them speak for themselves:
https://www.amazon.com/World-Flesh-Devi ... B004H0M32M
It's only available as a DVD or on Amazon video as far as I can tell.
There's some really good review on Amazon's site so I'll let them speak for themselves:
https://www.amazon.com/World-Flesh-Devi ... B004H0M32M
"Millions Flee from Cities! End of the World!" From a Manhattan skyscraper, Ralph Burton (Harry Belafonte) surveys the emptiness announced by that chilling newspaper headline. Nuclear doomsday has come. Ralph is sure he is the last person alive. Then a woman (Inger Stevens) appears and the two form a cautious friendship that's threatened when a third survivor (Mel Ferrer) arrives. Unlike other post-apocalyptic thrillers from The Time Machine to I Am Legend, there are no external monsters to battle here. Instead, the monsters - fear, intolerance, jealousy - lurk inside the all-too-human human beings. And heightening the intensity of writer/director Ranald MacDougall's suspenseful and unsettling movie are stunning vistas of an unpopulated New York: vast, empty and soulless.