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The Last Woman on Earth

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A gangster (Anthony Carbone), his wife (Betsy Jones-Moreland) and a lawyer (Edward Wain) have Earth to themselves.
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Fernando F. Croce CinePassion Micro-masterpiece Feb 14, 2010 Full Review Pablo Villaça Cinema em Cena A estria de Towne como roteirista (e ator!) traz sua parcela de bons dilogos e momentos interessantes, mas, de modo geral, o roteiro denuncia a pressa com que foi escrito e Corman, claro, no se preocupa muito em polir o filme com mais cuidado. Rated: 2/5 Jan 12, 2008 Full Review James O'Ehley Sci-Fi Movie Page Tennessee Williams for the post-apocalypse . . . Nov 6, 2007 Full Review Read all reviews

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joe m Awful in that way that only Roger Corman can do. The film's premise is intriguing - two men and a woman are deep sea diving and when they surface some catastrophic event has suffocated all breathing creatures. Yet, after that it just devolves in to a contest between the men for the woman. Just bad so avoid at all cost. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member I know it was 1960, but the exploration of this social experiment gets shallower by the minute past half-way, even for heteronormative monogamy. It really doesn't explore its base concept beyond that. The acting is just okay. How it got a sci-fi or horror tag is beyond me. It's not the so-bad-it's-good genre -- it's just a bore, even if you're curious about adulterous themes, which it also barely scrapes the surface of. Anticlimactic topped off with lost potential. Skip it. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review stu b An early Corman snoozefest. A millionaire and his wife, accompanied by the husband's handsome young lawyer, go scuba-diving in the Caribbean; when they surface, they discover that everyone at the island paradise where they'd been vacationing is dead. It's a promising end-of-the world premise, all right, but it's sabotaged by wooden acting, stock characters, and a pencil-thin plot that goes absolutely nowhere. Watch it to see who survives if you like, but don't say you haven't been warned. With prolific Hollywood scribe Robert Towne (acting, very early in his career, under the name Edward Wain) as the lawyer. (He also--under his real name--wrote the script. Yes, years before "Chinatown" and all his other hits, he penned this turkey. Well, we've all gotta start somewhere, I guess.) Low-key, low-energy, and--it's a Roger Corman film, after all--low-budget. Not recommended. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/21/19 Full Review Audience Member Loved the row-boat fish-fight. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member An amoral businessman, his neglected wife, and a straight-laced lawyer emerge from a scuba diving trip to discover that everyone else on the planet is dead. This cheap post-apocalyptic adultery drama manages to be even less interesting than the other movie Roger Corman shot back-to-back with the same cast and Puerto Rico locations, THE CREATURE FROM THE HAUNTED SEA. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member Or, The Longest Snooze on Earth. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A gangster (Anthony Carbone), his wife (Betsy Jones-Moreland) and a lawyer (Edward Wain) have Earth to themselves.
Director
Roger Corman
Production Co
Filmgroup Productions
Genre
Sci-Fi
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 5, 1960, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 7, 2015
Runtime
1h 11m
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