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Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.35:1, Sensormatic
Dr. Robert Morgan (Vincent Price) is the only survivor of a devastating world-wide plague due to a mysterious immunity he acquired to the bacterium while working in Central America years ago. He is all alone now...or so it seems. As night falls, plague victims begin to leave their graves, part of a hellish undead army that's thirsting for blood...his!
"...nicely grim sci-fi horror..." Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress
"The best Vincent Price movie." Phil Hall, Film Threat
Editor's Note
Based on Richard Matheson's SF thriller I AM LEGEND, THE LAST MAN ON EARTH is about a man who survives a global plague only to be stalked nightly by zombielike victims who call out his name. Vincent Price stars as Robert Morgan, a scientist who tried desperately to come up with a cure for an airborne virus that was killing people around the globe. Although he could not develop a serum in time to save his family, he himself seems to be immune from the disease. Thus, he is left to wander the streets by day, staking zombies, then barricading himself in his house each night as the zombies try to break in and kill him. Price is excellent in the role, going about his horrible business as if it were just another day: waking up and eating breakfast, putting on a suit, calmly staking the zombies, making dinner, listening to records at night. But when he suddenly sees what looks like another living soul out in the daylight, his world is suddenly turned inside out.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital Mono | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Mgm Entertainment |
| Release Date: 12/4/2007 |
| Running Time: 87 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1964 | | Catalog ID: 109722 | | UPC: 00027616097217 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: B&W |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew | Emma Danieli | | Franca Bettoia | | Giacomo Rossi-Stuart | | Vincent Price | | Bert Shefter - Original Music By | | Franca Silvi - Editor | | Franco Delli Colli - Cinematographer | | Gene Ruggiero - Editor | | Giorgio Giovannini - Production Designer | | Harold E. Knox - Producer | | Paul Sawtell - Original Music By | | Richard Matheson - Based On Novel By | | Samuel Z. Arkoff - Executive Producer | | Sidney Salkow - Director | | Ubaldo Ragona - Director | | William F. Leicester, et. al. - Screenplay |
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| | Professional Reviews | Austin Chronicle 8 of 10
A mysterious bacterium has swept over the world and left everyone dead except for epidemiologist Morgan (Price), who picked up an immunity to the germ years before while working in South America. Unfortunately for him, the dead rise at night to become shuffling vampire/zombies bent on eating him alive. By day, his routine involves shopping for garlic and mirrors to repel the undead and grid-searching the town block by block to exterminate them with the dependable wooden-stake method. He piles the corpses in his station wagon and takes them to the local landfill where he makes a bonfire out of them; by night, he returns home to play old records and ignore the ghoulish goons outside his door. He keeps a generator running in his house for electricity (as well as at the local grocery) as he goes half-mad from loneliness and boredom...Based on a story by Richard Matheson ("I Am Legend," later remade into the rather limp Omega Man with Charlton Heston), The Last Man on Earth shows its low-budget seams at times; Morgan cruises around in his '56 Chevy wagon on narrow Italian streets filled with bulbous Fiats. It's nonetheless a chilling study of loneliness and an acting tour de force for Price as the last survivor of a dead race, and not exactly the feel-good movie of 1964. - Jerry Renshaw
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