The Last Woman on Earth

Released Aug 5, 1960

1h 11m

Sci-Fi

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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

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Micro-masterpiece

Feb 14, 2010

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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

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James O'Ehley

Sci-Fi Movie Page

Tennessee Williams for the post-apocalypse . . .

Nov 6, 2007

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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

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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

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martin a

An interesting film, the story is good that 3 people diving surface to find that everyone on the Island is dead and that they can't breathe, however, it soon clears and the married couple and their friend are left alone to survive. Sadly the film then moves to a jealous husband and a woman who loves two men, and the end of the earth falls into insignificance as the love feud kicks into force. It is not bad but could have been so much more

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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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

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Audience Member

Loved the row-boat fish-fight.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/01/23

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kevin w

Quite literally one year and 3 months after The World, The Flesh, And The Devil's release, Roger Corman came out with his version (scripted by and acted in by Robert Towne) with essentially the same story, weaned of its political and moral implications. Let's just get to the meat, shall we: the 2 last guys duking it out for the last woman left alive (she's named "Evelyn" ... get it?). Any questions? Yeah, it's cheap, but it ain't totally bad.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Roger Corman

Director

Antony Carbone

Harold Gern

Betsy Jones-Moreland

Evelyn Gern

Robert Towne

Martin Joyce

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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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