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Director:
Writers:
Arch Oboler (story)
James Weldon Johnson (dialogue) (poem)
Contact:
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Release Date:
25 April 1951 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
Four men and one woman are the last five people on Earth...This is their story!
Plot:
The world is destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. Only five Americans survive, including a pregnant woman... more | full synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
On DVD: "Our Man in Havana," "The Singing Revolution"
 (From IFC. 3 February 2009, 6:55 AM, PST)

User Reviews:
Way ahead of its time. more (27 total)

Cast

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William Phipps ... Michael
Susan Douglas Rubes ... Roseanne Rogers (as Susan Douglas)
James Anderson ... Eric
Charles Lampkin ... Charles
Earl Lee ... Mr. Barnstaple
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Additional Details

Runtime:
93 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Filmed in a house designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, owned by the film's director, Arch Oboler. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: When looking at the soap box powder in the store, the name of the soap is "Atomic Suds" but when the box is tilted by the actor you can clearly see the box top reads "Tide". more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Great Balls of Fire! (1989) more

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14 out of 20 people found the following review useful.
Way ahead of its time., 3 September 2005
8/10
Author: david-1233 from Oregon, USA

I saw this film when it was first released in 1951. As a 13-year-old kid, it was a scary experience, convincing me that nuclear war was inevitable and we'd all be blown to hell. The gradual introduction of characters, survivors of a full-blown holocaust, eventually gather to try and make sense of their of circumstances and begin anew. If I recall, the baby, born of the pregnant survivor, named her girl Virginia Dare, after the first child born in the New World. Nice touch. The film is better than expected and little did we know that the threat of "weapons of mass destruction" was not science fiction. Although several films in this same vein have been made since 1951, this original macabre thriller ranks right up there with the best.

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