Post-Apoc Film Find (1959)

I've been a devotee of post-apocalyptic films for several years but until perusing streaming options on Amazon today I had never heard of this 1959 film starring Harry Belafonte and Mel Ferrer. It's set in New York City and was filmed in Manhattan. Some impressive scenes and cinematography. And some implausibilities but it is 1950s Hollywood...

Highly recommend if you, too, are a fan of post-apocalyptic genre. That it is black-and-white and circa-1950s is for me a bonus.

http://www.amazon.com/The-World-Flesh-Devil-Remaster/dp/B004H0M32M

Amazon is streaming a remastered version and it is excellent quality.


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Good find. Placed it into the dedicated thread (yet to watch it tonight).

Mel Ferrer? I'd love to see a post-apocalyptic film with Mel Brooks!

The only post apocalyptic comedy I know of is Trigun.

Jeanette Isabelle

Jeanette Isabelle wrote
> The only post apocalyptic comedy I know of is Trigun.

There's 'The Bed Sitting Room' and of course there's 'causing the apocalypse' films:

'Dr Strangelove'

'Whoops Apocalypse' (the tv series is a lot better than the film. https://youtu.be/aEJ9Is5sZUw

I'll be amazed if there aren't more.


qjs

The Horn & Hardart Automat shown 20 - 30 minutes into the movie (The World, The Flesh and the devil) was located at 236 5th Avenue, New York, NY.

Just watched Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse. TOTALLY BLASTED! The absolute masterpiece!

The 1959 one looked to me more like on the racial segregation mentality in the US subject.

Don't forget the classic post nuclear apocalypse film, " On The Beach".

Any film with Ava Gardner is unforgettable....That aside, it is indeed a very good flick.

There's that towering achievment of film culture that no serious student of the cinematic art should ignore:

Strippers versus Zombies.

qjs

I found the 'The Bed Sitting Room' exceptionally disturbing from the darj recesses of Spike's Mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de0w8tU0j1U

I liked this one too. So much fun!

If you liked that one (I thought it was fair, not in same the class as "Zombieland" or "Shaun Of The Dead"), you might also like "Warm Bodies", which for me was a definite step up from "Scouts..."

Just done watching it. Sweet moral story, time well spent with family, thanks. My DW even got another, somewhat positive angle at the subject However, to my taste, the "motion picture art" side of it is way better in "Scouts" and "z-land". It was probably a good book, but it needs a better director I guess.

Doh!
Having several times recommended the excellent book; 'The Death of Grass' by John Christopher on this site. I just remembered there's a film of it; 'No Blade Of Grass'. Which I've also recommended here!
Actually the film is very flawed but the premise; a world wide famine is so good that it is still chilling. What would you do if the only way your family could survive was to kill and rob others? Unlike other post apocalypse films the protagonists aren't saintly strugglers forced to fight by killers. They are the killers.
As often happens there is an american in the group, in the film (so it will sell in america) and they also leave out the reason the famine hits europe overnight. The food ships en route to feed europe from the USA are turned back and no more are going to be sent; because the virus that kills all the grass family (wheat, rice, barley....) is discovered in the americas.
That wouldnt' go down well with an american audience either. But what would you do if you were in congress?

qjs

1959...wish someone would 'movie' Pat Frank's "Alas, Babylon"...

As long as it gets the Lord of the Rings treatment and not the Starship Troopers treatment.

I've been enjoying "Under a Graveyard Sky" and its subsequent books. Survive the zombies, then rebuilding...