Fresh and Exciting

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

An interesting approach to the biggest "what if?" of them all.Belafonte, Stevens and Ferrer make for a good mix.They create a good chemistry.Funny how some things won't change, no matter whether there's 3 alive or 300,000,000.And sometimes 3 people is 2 too many, even when there's only 3.The approach used for these 3 trying to work out their differences and get along is somewhat predictable and cliché.But it is food for thought, as some other reviews have said here.Watch it when you can find it.It's worth the trouble.

I actually seen this movie a million times. But I haven't seen it in a few years. It was OK. I thought if I saw it again I might find something else about it that I missed since I am older. The reason I was not crazy bout it was because it tried to hard to make the black character played by Belafonte almost angelic, not man, a human who craves closeness. Who was he holding back for? He played the Sidney Poitier role, Sid must of been busy. The movie wants to pride itself in being innovated but it cops out. Belafonte has played very controversial roles before and since that movie so it was not like he never broke the taboo roles in movies. People want to say this was a first. But a few years earlier Belafante played the love interest of Joan Fontaine in a movie along with Dorothy Dandridge who was married to white man and James Mason who was passing. Was it because this was a American movie it did not take that one step, that never happens? Inger Stevens was very good because she is a real person who perhaps in her life before she never would of talked to a black man but sees reality as it is, No one is here any more so why not go for it. We do like each other. But I like the Mel Ferrer part because I do believe he was the role the directors took chance with and was more truthful. We see even though his character that even though Stevens craves contact, she will not take it from a person she doesn't really like. Since we know that and Belafonte and she knows that what is they problem? The Ferrer character certainly knows that. I't is a interesting movie. But no one should take it as being anything but entertainment..

Harry Belafonte is a coal miner trapped in a cave-in. He hears the drilling of the rescue crew which abruptly stops. Belafonte claws his own way to the surface and finds everything abandoned. I mean really abandoned. An Armageddon has occurred when some nation decided to forego the bomb and all that destruction and just use the radioactive byproducts. It gets out of control and wipes out everybody.Well, almost everybody. Harry hot wires a car and travels to New York City in search of life in the largest population center. After a while he finds it in Inger Stevens. It looks like another Adam and Eve ready to begin again when Mel Ferrer also shows up. By that time Belafonte has established some kind of contact with some unknown foreign survivors somewhere in the post apocalypse world?Of course with two men, two races, and only one woman, things start to look like business as usual for mankind. I was reminded of Neil Patrick Harris's line from Starship Troopers about how we're in it for the species. Will all three of them and anyone else they contact decide we're in it for the species in The World, the Flesh and the Devil?Director Ranald McDougall got three good performances out of his small cast. The World, The Flesh And The Devil does ask some thought provoking questions as to whether man is capable of screwing up once again. What kind of culture will they establish and will a Supreme Creator/Deity need to intervene?

This film was an excellent film of its type. It was daring in its (not quite complete--you couldn't get away with it then) treatment of race in those times. The film clearly pointed--it never said--that Inger Stevens would end up with the best man.It was extremely well acted. Belafonte was so human, so believable as the telephone engineer who couldn't accept this end. When race arose in the picture, it arose as a problem, a real problem, but not an hysterical diatribe. Inger Stevens was good. Mel Ferrer, as another viewer noted, was not the easy bigot, but a man who was used to getting his way, given the methods society allowed. He didn't really care about Belafonte's color, but about the girl. The script, given the willing suspension of disbelief you needed to accept a world in which no bodies could be seen, was excellent as well. As for realism, the theatre (correct spelling, IMDb!) has been using this kind of signification since Greek theatre didn't allow acts of violence on the stage. My only problem is not being able to get a copy because of the years of bad press from a public that loves gore more than human substance.