The Last Man on Earth (1964 film)

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	The Thin Red Line
		The film concentrates on mood and tone, crafting a world which alternates between light and darkness, fire and water, earth and air, and in which the rituals and dramas of battle are seen as an unholy disruption to the natural order which shatters man's relationship with the environment (and, by somewhat pantheistic inference, with God).
		On the level of performance, each of the actors deliver authentic characterisations, with Nolte and Penn particular standouts in a large cast which includes cameos from John Travolta, John Cusack and George Clooney.
		"There's only a thin red line between the sane and the mad" explains the saying which gives the movie its title, and it is on this line (the front line of the battle for Guadalcanal), that most of the action takes place.
	homepage.eircom.net /~obrienh/trl.htm (915 words)

	Column - The Soundtrack - The Omega Man
		The story had been filmed earlier in 1964 as, in fact, The Last Man on Earth with Vincent Price in the title role.
		Neither film captured the chilling vision and paranoia of Richard Matheson’s original and superb novel I Am Legend but Omega Man is a fair old adventure story and the role is particularly suited to Mr.
		In fact Grainer was so proud of his theme for The Prisoner that he reworked it, somewhat obviously, into this score, and I suppose quite appropriately as both stories feature one defiant man trying to maintain some form of dignity amidst a menacing and decaying society.
	www.filmsinreview.com /Features/thesoundtrack/Omega_Man.htm (291 words)

	The Last Man on Earth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Last Man on Earth (originally titled L'Ultimo uomo della Terra) is a 1964 film based upon the Richard Matheson novel I Am Legend.
		For the earlier film with this title, see The Last Man on Earth (1924 film).
		Morgan has been alone on Earth for some years and is constantly having to fight for his life and his place as the last man on Earth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Last_Man_on_Earth (220 words)

	Omega Man reviewed by AllZone4DVD.net
		· The film is based on Richard Matheson's book 'I Am Legend.' It was first adapted for the screen in 1964 by Sydney Salkow under the unambiguous title, 'The Last Man On Earth.' It starred Vincent Price as the scientist.
		As a cultural reference point, 'The Omega Man' has a salient place in the short-lived, but important blaxploitation sub-genre of films made in the 70s.
		* : Vintage Documentary - The Last Man Alive (10.00)This very welcome, but far too brief feature has Heston inviting a noted Anthropologist to the set to hypothesise about the plausibility of 'Omega Man.' Included is some rare 'making of' and behind-the-scenes production footage.
	www.allzone4dvd.net /review_details.htm?id=644 (1031 words)

	Undead
		In J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic fantasy trilogy The Lord of the Rings, Rivendell is one of the last remaining colonies of the Elves in Middle Earth.
		It starred David Janssen as Dr. Richard Kimble, a man unjustly convicted of murdering his wife and forced to flee capture by the police while striving to prove his innocence and hunt down the real killer—the mysterious “one-armed man.”
		It was made into a film starring Richard Burton in 1964.
	www.annotatedmst.com /episodes/undead/index.htm (6722 words)

	Ben Wright
		Most of Wright's film roles were supporting or bit appearances in such productions as A Man Called Peter (1955), Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), My Fair Lady (1964), and The Fortune Cookie (1964).
		Ben Wright's most frequently seen film appearance was as the humorless Nazi functionary Herr Zeller in the 1965 megahit The Sound of Music.
		More familiar for his radio work than his film appearances, American actor Ben Wright was active professionally from the early '40s.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P+77580 (144 words)

	COUNTRIES K-P page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE
		I know of three fiction films shot on location in New Zealand: * The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) * The Quite Earth (1985) a surrealistic film of an experiment gone awry which seems to have made verybody in the world vanish, except for one scientist.
		The best survey of Swedish science fiction that I know of is the "Bibliography of Science Fiction and Fantasy" by Sam J. Lundwall, 1964, which I believe has been updated in at least three editions.
		Russia beat America into space with Sputnik, the definitive event that showed the world that science fiction dreams of spaceflight were now reality, and hammered home the point with the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin.
	www.magicdragon.com /UltimateSF/countriesKP.html (4436 words)

	SciFlicks.com ---> Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome - The Facts
		Max waking in Crack in Earth in the middle of the night and remembering his wife Jessie and crying, realizing he is no better than the people he has hunted for so long.
		This is a reference to Clint Eastwood's character in Sergio Leone's "spaghetti westerns," particularly Per un pugno di dollari (1964), where his character also enters a town as a drifter and plays the two ruling factions against each other for profit.
		Max comforting the dying Ghekko while facing Bartertown from the desert dunes and telling him it's "Tomorrow morrow land”"(this scene can be glimpsed in the Tina Turner video for We Don't Need Another Hero);
	www.sciflicks.com /mad_max_beyond_thunderdome/facts.html (255 words)

	Robert Lansing - Memory Alpha
		Nonetheless, Lansing was the star of three other series during the 1960s: 87th Precinct in 1961, Twelve O'Clock High in 1964, and The Man Who Never Was in 1966.
		Lansing's other film credits include An Eye for an Eye (1966, with Paul Fix and Clint Howard), Mamu, the Killer Whale (1966, with John Anderson and Lee Meriwether), and Bittersweet Love (1976, with Gail Strickland).
		Sadly, his role would only last until the following year, when he died of cancer at the age of 66.
	www.memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Robert_Lansing (487 words)

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