The Last Man on Earth movie storyline. When a plague devastated life on Earth, the population died or became a sort of zombie living in the dark. Dr. Robert Morgan is the unique healthy survivor on the planet, having a routine life for his own survival: he kills the night creatures along the day and maintains the safety of his house, to be protected along the night. He misses his beloved wife and daughter, consumed by the outbreak, and he fights against his loneliness to maintain mentally sane. When Dr. Morgan finds the contaminated Ruth Collins, he uses his blood to heal her and he becomes the last hope on Earth to help the other contaminated survivors. But the order of this new society is scary.
The Last Man on Earth is a 1964 black-and-white post-apocalyptic science fiction horror film based on the 1954 novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. The film was produced by Robert L. Lippert and directed by Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow, and stars Vincent Price and France Bettoia. The screenplay was written in part by Matheson, but he was dissatisfied with the result and chose to be credited as “Logan Swanson”. William Leicester, Furio M. Monetti, and Ubaldo Ragona finished the script.
The Last Man on Earth was filmed in Rome, with scenes being completed at Esposizione Universale Roma. It was released in the United States and the United Kingdom by American International Pictures. In the 1980s the film entered the public domain. MGM Home Video, the current owners of the AIP film catalog, released a digitally remastered widescreen print of the film on DVD in September 2005.
The Last Man on Earth (1964)
Directed by: Sidney Salkow, Ubaldo B. Ragona
Starring: Vincent Price, Franca Bettoia, Emma Danieli, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Carolyn De Fonseca, Emma Danieli, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Umberto Raho, Christi Courtland, Antonio Corevi
Ettore Ribotta, Rolando De Rossi, Giuseppe Mattei
Screenplay by: Logan Swanson, William F. Leicester
Production Design by: Giorgio Giovannini
Cinematography by: Franco Delli Colli
Film Editing by: Gene Ruggiero
Costume Design by: Angiolina Menichelli
Set Decoration by: Brunello Serena Ulloa
Music by: Paul Sawtell, Bert Shefter
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: American International Pictures (US), 20th Century Fox (International)
Release Date: March 8, 1964
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