Country: USA
Year: 1959
Duration: 95'
A black miner is trapped for a few days underground. When he resurfaces he finds himself completely alone in a deserted New York: an atomic bomb has destroyed humanity. He organizes his life and searches for other survivors. The appearance of a blond girl and a white man renews racial tension. Based on the novel The Purple Cloud by Shiel, starring and produced by Harry Belafonte, a pamphlet against intolerance. The sequences in the deserted city are forceful.
Biography
film director
Ranald MacDougall
FILMOGRAFIA
Queen Bee (Ape regina, 1955), Man on Fire (Tormento di un’anima, 1957), The World, the Flesh and the Devil (La fine del mondo, 1959), The Subterraneans (La nostra vita comincia di notte, 1960), Go Naked in the World (Va nuda per il mondo, 1961), Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County (1970).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Ranald MacDougall
soggetto/story
dal romanzo La nube purpurea di/from the novel The Purple Cloud by M.P. Shiel e dal racconto/and from the short story End of the World di/by Ferdinand Reyher
fotografia/cinematography
Harold J. Marzorati
montaggio/film editing
Harold F. Kress
musica/music
Miklós Rózsa
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Harry Belafonte (Ralph Burton), Inger Stevens (Sarah Crandall), Mel Ferrer (Benson Thacker)
produttori/producers
George Englund, Harry Belafonte
produzione/production
HarBel Productions
Ranald MacDougall
soggetto/story
dal romanzo La nube purpurea di/from the novel The Purple Cloud by M.P. Shiel e dal racconto/and from the short story End of the World di/by Ferdinand Reyher
fotografia/cinematography
Harold J. Marzorati
montaggio/film editing
Harold F. Kress
musica/music
Miklós Rózsa
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Harry Belafonte (Ralph Burton), Inger Stevens (Sarah Crandall), Mel Ferrer (Benson Thacker)
produttori/producers
George Englund, Harry Belafonte
produzione/production
HarBel Productions