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The World, the Flesh and the Devil is a 1959 American science fiction [3] [4] doomsday film written and directed by Ranald MacDougall. The film stars Harry Belafonte, who was then at the peak of his film career. [4] The film is set in a post-apocalyptic world with very few human survivors. It is based on two sources: the 1901 novel The Purple ...
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The World, the Flesh and the Devil: Directed by Ranald MacDougall. With Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer. A miner trapped in a cave-in resurfaces, and upon discovering mankind has been wiped out in a nuclear holocaust, sets out to find other survivors.
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- Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
- Ranald MacDougall
- 1959-05-01
Ralph Burton is a miner who is trapped for several days as a result of a cave-in. When he finally manages to dig himself out, he realizes that all of mankind seems to have been destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. He travels to New York City only to find it deserted. Making a life for himself there, he is flabbergasted to eventually find Sarah Crandall, who also managed to survive. Together, they ...
One of the more idiosyncratic and now mostly forgotten entries in this science fiction subgenre is The World, the Flesh, and the Devil (1959), based on the prophetic 1902 novel The Purple Cloud by Matthews Phipps Shiel. The film opens with Ralph (Harry Belafonte), a black miner in Pennsylvania getting trapped in a cave-in and unable to ...
- Ranald Macdougall, Al Jennings
- Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer
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From a Manhattan skyscraper, Ralph Burton ( Harry Belafonte) surveys the emptiness announced by that chilling newspaper headline. Nuclear doomsday has come. Ralph is sure he is the last person alive. Then a woman ( Inger Stevens) appears and the two form a cautious friendship that's threatened when a third survivor ( Mel Ferrer) arrives.
The World, the Flesh and the Devil - Full Cast & Crew. 1959. 1 hr 35 mins. Drama, Science Fiction. NR. Watchlist. Where to Watch. A Pennsylvania miner, trapped for days in a cave-in, emerges to ...
