World, the Flesh and the Devil, The
MGM/UA (1959)
Science Fiction
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IMDB   7.0
1 hr 35 mins USA / French
DVD  Region 1   NR
Harry Belafonte Ralph Burton
Inger Stevens Sarah Crandall
Mel Ferrer Benson Thacker
Director
Ranald MacDougall
Producer George Englund
Harry Belafonte
Writer Ranald MacDougall
Ferdinand Reyher
Cinematography Harold J. Marzorati
Musician Miklos Rosza
Miklós Rózsa

"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.
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