I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

"Last Woman on Earth" was produced and directed by Roger Corman for American International Pictures in association with his own company, Filmgroup (one word, though an Allied Artists TV reissue spelled it as "Film Group"), and was based on a script by Robert Towne - who was also in it, more on that later. Towne went on to a distinguished career as a writer and a less distinguished one as a director - his best known credit was probably the screenplay for "Chinatown" (though Towne was disgusted when director Roman Polanski changed his ending), and he's one of the many talents both in front of and behind the camera who went from a Corman apprenticeship to a major career. "Last Woman on Earth" was apparently a project Corman threw together because he was already organizing a location trip to Puerto Rico to shoot "Creature from the Haunted Sea" and he wanted to get the most bang for his buck while there by making a second film - the way he would allow Francis Ford Coppola to shoot his first film, "Dementia 13," with the same cast and crew as his own production "The Young Racers;" and why he would squeeze two days' extra work out of Boris Karloff and Jack Nicholson by finishing the 1963 version of "The Raven" early so he could make another film with them, The Terror. It helped that Towne's plot features only three on-screen (live) human characters: New York financier Harold Gern (Anthony Carbone), his wife Evelyn (Betsy Jones Moreland) and his tax attorney Martin Joyce. The performance of the actor playing Joyce is credited to "Edward Wain," but that was actually a pseudonym for ... Robert Towne. It seems that he hadn't yet finished the film by the time Corman and his crew were set to leave for Puerto Rico, so Corman had to bring him along so he could finish the script on the spot. Rather than pay for two people to come to Puerto Rico, Corman decided to save plane fare and living expenses for one by drafting Towne to play the part himself. Like Blake Edwards in Frank Wisbar's 1940's "B" "Strangler of the Swamp," Towne's performance proves that his real talent lay in writing, not acting. It also is an early indication of the flaw that would sink a lot of Towne's later major productions: a gift for pseudo-profundity which led him to write things that pretend to intellectual sophistication but really don't achieve it. One suspects that Corman told Towne, "Write me an Ingmar Bergman script - only make sure I can slap an exploitation title on it so I can sell it to the drive-ins." What Towne came up with was a profoundly uninteresting romantic triangle between Harold, Evelyn and Martin that turns into a post-apocalyptic movie when, vacationing on Puerto Rico while Harold's latest IRS investigation gets sorted out, Harold takes Evelyn and Martin deep-sea diving with SCUBA gear - and while they're underwater a sudden interruption in Earth's oxygen supply takes place, just long enough to wipe out all other humans and land-based animal life. They come to life but keep breathing through their diving masks until they realize that whatever happened to the air that annihilated the rest of humanity is over and they can once again breathe safely - and the rest of the plot deals with Harold's attempts to lord it over the other two and insist that Evelyn doesn't have sex with Martin even though she's been clearly restive in her trophy-wife status and genuinely attracted to him. The main problem with this film is that the three people are relentlessly uninteresting and we really don't like any of them. It's possible Corman could have improved this film greatly if he'd been willing to pay salary, expenses and travel for an actual actor to play Martin, and it's pretty clear whom that should have been: the young Jack Nicholson, who was under contract to Corman at the time and could have brought an explosive romantic and sexual intensity to the character that clearly eluded the writer playing him. "Last Woman on Earth" is yet another bad film in which one senses a good film struggling inside it to get out.

A mysterious apocalypse creates void of oxygen in atmosphere an wipes out all human (and animal) life. Three people, a businessman, his wife and lawyer are scuba diving at that moment, and when they resurface, they discover everyone are dead and they might be the only ones alive. Starring Betsy Jones-Moreland, Anthony Carbone and (future 'Chinatown' screenwriter) Robert Towne credited as Edward Wain (with this performance he proves to be much more talented as a writer than an actor). One woman and two men are always perfect combination for intrigues and drama. Especially in the setting of post-apocalyptic world. In that sense 'Last Woman on Earth' bares many similarities with Corman's own earlier film 'Day the World Ended'.Plot is intriguing and screenplay is fairly well written by Robert Towne. There are its weak points, but these are, again, mainly the fault of Roger Corman's style rushed production. The filming started before the screenplay was finished, and it shows in its catastrophic ending that itself is not all that bad but feels - rushed, but at the same time it wonderfully underlines the relationships between three protagonists and their outlook for future. Good writing is supported by good acting jobs mainly by Carbone and Jones-Moreland. Low budget shines through less in this low key but ambitious science fiction masterpiece.With all its weak spots 'Last Woman on Earth' is my own personal favorite from Corman alongside 'A Bucket of Blood' and 'The Intruder'.

This movie seems rather bland of the surface, but if you know your history and economics. There is an underlying theme that isn't to hard to find. If you look you will find that Harold stands for Raw Capitalism and Martin stands for "Communism". It's a piece of MacArthur history that truly shows how the subject was treated in 1960. There are many parts in the movie that clearly show the hatred and dysfunction of communism and how much "better" capitalism is. If you do look for these themes they get more noticeable toward the end. The movie takes a while to develop and has bad acting and at time the audio sucks.It's an alright movie, the themes are the best part enjoy it. It's a classic so give it a chance. Rating 7/10

Last Woman on Earth is a well-written post- apocalyptic science fiction, almost ruined by bad direction. The film was written by Robert Towne, who seemed to write Roger Corman's best movies. It had a very interesting conflict between the last two men on Earth fighting over the last woman. It had a some very tense scenes, with some dark humour sprinkled in. The characters, however, required very good actors to play their roles, and the acting, to be honest, sucked. The two male leads talked in an annoying Keanu Reeves-style monotone, and while the female lead was a little better, she's barely given anything to do. That, along with some weird editing choices, Corman's trademark padding, and the fact that the movie could've been way creepier, this just ended up a mildly entertaining b-movie.Roger Corman fans might find some enjoyment in this, just don't be expecting something like A Bucket of Blood.