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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.
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The World, the Flesh and the Devil: Ranald MacDougall: Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer: United States: Drama Romance The Ugly Duckling: Lance Comfort: Bernard Bresslaw, Reginald Beckwith, Jon Pertwee, Maudie Edwards: United Kingdom Comedy Crime [39]
To save money, the film was shot in Italy with a predominantly Italian cast and crew. [6] [7] The climax was shot in San Pio X alla Balduina, a real Catholic church in Rome. [8] [9] [10] Matheson later said the film was the most faithful adaptation of his book, but he also called the result "inept" and used a pen name for his screenplay.
John of the Cross cites the world, the flesh, and the devil as threats to the perfection of the soul, and offers different "precautions" to be taken against each of these. [ 10 ] Some have responded to the idea of temptation by teaching or practicing asceticism ; (see also ascetical theology and mortification of the flesh ).
The film's plot has also been compared to the 1959 Harry Belafonte movie The World, the Flesh and the Devil, about a love triangle between a black engineer, white woman, and white man who may be the last people on Earth. [2] [3] The film was released on August 28, 2015, in the United States by Roadside Attractions. It received generally ...
The Quiet Earth is a 1985 New Zealand post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Geoff Murphy and starring Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge and Peter Smith as three survivors of a cataclysmic disaster.
1959 War On the Beach [20] Stanley Kramer: Starring Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins and Ava Gardner – the crew of an American submarine finds temporary safety from the fallout in Australia after the nuclear holocaust (from the 1957 novel by Nevil Shute) Film 1959 War The World, the Flesh and the Devil [11]