| The Last Man on Globe | |
|---|---|
 US movie poster by Reynold Brown | |
| Directed past | Sidney Salkow Ubaldo B. Ragona |
| Screenplay by | Logan Swanson William F. Leicester Italian version: Furio M. Monetti Ubaldo B. Ragona |
| Based on | I Am Legend by Richard Matheson |
| Produced by | Robert L. Lippert |
| Starring | Vincent Price Franca Bettoia Emma Danieli Giacomo Rossi Stuart |
| Cinematography | Franco Delli Colli |
| Edited past | Gene Ruggiero Italian version: Franca Silvi |
| Music past | Paul Sawtell Bert Shefter |
| Color procedure | Black and white |
| Production | Associated Producers |
| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
| Release engagement |
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| Running time | 86 minutes |
| Countries | United States Italy |
| Languages | English Italian |
The Last Homo on Earth is a 1964 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 Cost and Franca Bettoia. The screenplay was written in office past Matheson, merely he was dissatisfied with the upshot and chose to be credited as "Logan Swanson". William Leicester, Furio M. Monetti, and Ubaldo Ragona finished the script.
The Final Man on Earth was filmed in Rome, with scenes existence completed at Esposizione Universale Roma. It was released in the United States by American International Pictures. In the 1980s the film entered the public domain.[1] [two] MGM Home Video, the current owners of the AIP picture catalog, released a digitally remastered widescreen impress of the film on DVD in September 2005.
Plot [edit]
Information technology is 1968, and Dr. Robert Morgan lives in a earth where everyone else has been infected by a plague that has turned them into undead, vampiric creatures that cannot stand sunlight, fear mirrors, and are repelled past garlic. They would kill Morgan if they could, merely they are weak and unintelligent. Every twenty-four hour period Morgan carries out the same routine: he wakes upwardly, marks some other day on the calendar, gathers his weapons, and then goes hunting for vampires, killing as many as he can and so burning the bodies to prevent them from coming back. At night, he locks himself inside his house.
A flashback sequence explains that, three years before, Morgan's wife Virginia and daughter Kathy had succumbed to the plague before information technology was widely known by the public that the expressionless would return to life. Instead of taking his wife to the same public fire pit used to dispose of his daughter's corpse, Morgan buried her without the knowledge of the regime. When his wife returned to his habitation and attacked him, Morgan became aware of the demand to kill the plague victims with a wooden pale. Morgan hypothesizes that he is immune to the bacteria from a bite by an infected vampire bat when he was stationed in Panama, which may have introduced a diluted form of the plague into his blood.
One solar day, a canis familiaris appears in the neighborhood. Desperate for companionship, Morgan chases later the dog but does not catch it. Quondam after the dog appears, wounded, at Morgan'southward doorstep. He takes the canis familiaris into his domicile and treats its wounds, looking forward to having company for the first time in three years. He apace discovers, nonetheless, that it, too, has get infected with the plague. Morgan is seen burying the domestic dog, which he has impaled with a wooden stake. Morgan sinks further into low and loneliness.
Later on burying the dog, Morgan spots a adult female in the altitude. The woman, Ruth, is terrified of Morgan at first sight and runs from him. Morgan convinces her to return to his home, but he is suspicious of her truthful nature. Ruth becomes ill when Morgan waves garlic in her face, who claims that she has a weak stomach. Morgan's suspicion that Ruth is infected is confirmed when he discovers her attempting to inject herself with a combination of blood and vaccine that holds the disease at bay. Ruth initially draws a gun on Morgan but ultimately surrenders it to him. She tells him that she is role of a group of people similar her—infected, just under handling—and was sent to spy on Morgan. The vaccine allows the people to function normally with the drug in the bloodstream, but in one case it wears off, the infection takes over the body again. Ruth explains that her people are planning to rebuild order equally they destroy the remaining humans, and that many of the vampires Morgan killed were still alive. Ruth desperately urges Morgan to flee, simply he inexplicably refuses.
While Ruth is comatose, Morgan transfuses his own blood into her. She is immediately cured, and Morgan sees hope that, together, they tin cure the residue of her people. Moments subsequently, even so, Ruth'south people set on. Morgan takes the gun and flees his home while the attackers kill the vampires gathered around Morgan'southward habitation. Ruth's people spot Morgan and chase him. He exchanges gunfire with them and picks upwards tear gas grenades from a police station armory along the fashion. While the tear gas delays his pursuers somewhat, Morgan is wounded by gunfire and retreats into a church building. As he stands at the altar, ane of his pursuers finally impales him with a thrown spear. In his concluding moments, Morgan denounces his pursuers as "freaks" and, as Ruth cradles him, declares that he is the final true man on Earth. Every bit Ruth walks abroad from Morgan's body, she notices a baby crying and tries to assure the child that everyone is safe now.
Bandage [edit]
- Vincent Price as Dr. Robert Morgan
- Franca Bettoia as Ruth Collins
- Carolyn De Fonseca dubbed for Franca Bettoia'due south voice in the English language release of the film. She was uncredited.
- Emma Danieli as Virginia Morgan
- Giacomo Rossi Stuart as Ben Cortman
- Umberto Raho (billed every bit Umberto Rau) as Dr. Mercer
Production [edit]
Development [edit]
Producer Anthony Hinds purchased the rights to Matheson's novel for Hammer Flick Productions. Matheson wrote a script, and Hammer appear in 1958 that they would make it.[3] All the same, British censors would not allow the film to exist produced, so Hinds resold the script to American producer Robert 50. Lippert.
Lippert had wanted to brand a "last human on World"-type film for a while. In the late 1950s Charles Marquis Warren and Robert Stabler optioned a novel by science fiction writer George R. Stewart chosen Earth Abides. Harry Spalding, who worked for Lippert, said the release of The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959) killed off plans for that project. Spalding then read Matheson's novel and suggested Lippert film that book instead.[four] The project was announced in August 1962.
Lippert originally told Matheson that Fritz Lang would direct the motion picture, and Matheson thought that would exist "wonderful". Somewhen, however, Sidney Salkow was chosen to directly. Matheson fabricated the follow-upwardly comment: "Well, at that place'southward a bit of a drop."[five]
Shooting [edit]
To save money, the film was shot in Italy with a predominantly Italian cast and crew.[vi] [7] The climax was shot in San Pio X alla Balduina, a real Cosmic church building in Rome.[8] [9] [10]
Matheson later said the film was the almost faithful adaptation of his book, simply he too chosen the effect "inept" and used a pen name for his screenplay. (He later said he idea Harrison Ford as star and George Miller as manager would take been the platonic creative combination".)[5]
Differences from the novel [edit]
There are several differences between the film and the novel I Am Legend from which it is based:
- The protagonist of the novel is named Robert Neville, not Robert Morgan.
- The protagonist's profession is changed from a constitute worker to scientist.
- The vampires are nigh zombie-like, whereas in the novel, they are fast and capable of running and climbing.
- The canis familiaris that shows up on Neville's doorstep in the novel is timid and comes and goes as information technology pleases, in contrast to the dog in the film.
- In the novel the human relationship with Ruth differs slightly, in that no transfusion takes place; a cure seems implausible, fifty-fifty as Neville hopes he will notice one; and Ruth escapes after Neville discovers that she is infected.
- Neville is not captured in the novel until many months later; even and so he barely fights back.
- The novel ends shortly before Neville is to exist executed; Ruth returns to give him suicide pills and finds it ironic that he has go as much of a legend to the new club every bit vampires once were to Neville'south world (hence the title).
- The novel implies that the vampire plague resulted from a biological illness; the origin of the disease is never explained in The Last Man on Earth (and is altered in the subsequent adaptations).
Release [edit]
Although the film was not considered a success upon its release, it afterwards gained a more than favorable reputation as a archetype of the genre.[xi] As of September 2021, The Last Homo on Earth holds an 81% rating at the film review aggregator Spider web site Rotten Tomatoes from 26 reviews.[12] Phil Hall of Film Threat called The Last Man on World "the best Vincent Cost movie always made".[11]
Among the less favorable reviews, Steve Biodrowski of Cinefantastique felt the picture was "hampered by an evidently low upkeep and some poorly recorded, post-production dubbing that creates an amateurish feel, undermining the power of its story",[13] while Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader remarked, "Some would consider this version amend than the 1971 remake with Charlton Heston, The Omega Human being, but that isn't much of an achievement".[14]
Amid the movie's creators, Price "had a certain fondness for the film" and felt it was amend than The Omega Human.[13] Richard Matheson co-wrote the film'south screenplay, but was unhappy with the results. To keep receiving residue income from the film, though, he had to be credited, so he used the proper name "Logan Swanson", a combination of his wife's mother'southward maiden name and his female parent's maiden name.[fifteen] Matheson said: "I was disappointed in the moving picture, fifty-fifty though they more or less followed my story. I think Vincent Price, whom I love in every one of his pictures that I wrote, was miscast. I too felt the management was kind of poor. I just didn't treat it".[16]
See also [edit]
- List of American films of 1964
- Vampire films
- I Am Fable (2007 film) starring Volition Smith
- The Omega Man (1971 movie) starring Charlton Heston
References [edit]
- ^ Lampley, Jonathan Malcolm (2010). Women in the Horror Films of Vincent Price. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. p. 98. ISBN978-0786457496.
- ^ Calvert, Steve. "Public Domain Movie: The Last Human on Earth (1964)". A Passion For Horror . Retrieved January 26, 2019.
- ^ Gabrish Conlan, Mark (July 29, 2018). "The Last Human on Earth". Motion-picture show Magg . Retrieved January 26, 2019.
- ^ Weaver, Tom (nineteen February 2003). Double Feature Creature Attack: A Monster Merger of Two More Volumes of Classic Interviews. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. p. 333. ISBN978-0786482153.
- ^ a b Weaver, Tom (2006). Science Fiction Stars and Horror Heroes: Interviews with Actors, Directors, Producers and Writers of the 1940s through 1960s. Jefferson, Northward Carolina: McFarland & Company. p. 306. ISBN978-0786428571.
- ^ McGee, Mark (1996). Faster and Furiouser: The Revised and Fattened Legend of American International Pictures. Jefferson, Northward Carolina: McFarland & Visitor. pp. 207–208. ISBN978-0786401376.
- ^ Brioni, Simone; Comberiati, Daniele (18 July 2019). Simone Brioni and Daniele Comberiati, Italian Science Fiction: The Other in Literature and Moving-picture show. New York: Palgrave, 2019. ISBN9783030193263.
- ^ Fuller, Author Peter (March 11, 2018). "The Terminal Man on Globe | Touring the original Italian film locations in Rome".
- ^ Weinstock, Jeffrey (April 3, 2012). The Vampire Moving-picture show: Undead Picture palace. Columbia Academy Printing. ISBN9780231850032 – via Google Books.
- ^ Macchi, David (September 22, 2019). "ROMAPEDIA: St. PIUS V".
- ^ a b Hall, Phil (April 21, 2006). "THE Homemade FILES: "THE Terminal Human being ON EARTH"". Film Threat.
- ^ "The Terminal Man on Earth reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Los Angeles, California: Fandango Media. Retrieved January 26, 2019.
- ^ a b Biodrowski, Steve (Jan 29, 2008). "The Terminal Man on World (1964) - Movie Review". Cinefantastique.
- ^ Rosenbaum, Jonathan (December 10, 2007). "The Terminal Man on Earth review". Chicago Reader . Retrieved January 26, 2019.
- ^ "Richard Matheson Storyteller: The Last Man on Earth". Midnight Movies Double Characteristic: Panic in Year Zero / The Final Man on Earth (DVD). Los Angeles, California: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 2005.
- ^ Simmons, William P. (2004). "Reflections of a Storyteller: A Conversation with Richard Matheson". Cemetery Dance. Woods Hill, Maryland: Cemetery Trip the light fantastic Publications. Retrieved Jan 26, 2019 – via rodserling.com.
External links [edit]
- The Last Man on Earth at IMDb
- The Terminal Man on Earth is available for free download at the Internet Archive
- The Last Man on Earth at AllMovie
- Audio transcription of the film (Part 1) (Part two) at the Cyberspace Annal.
- Audio commentary of the motion-picture show (Voices in the Dark Commentaries) at the Internet Annal.
- Essay on movie at Den of Geek
- Article on film at Bright Lights Film Journal
- Original soundtrack for The Final Man on Earth
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