A miner trapped in a cave-in resurfaces, and upon discovering mankind has been wiped out in a nuclear holocaust, sets out to find other survivors.
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Ralph Burton is a miner who is trapped for several days as a result of a cave-in. When he finally manages to dig himself out, he realizes that all of mankind seems to have been destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. He travels to New York City only to find it deserted. Making a life for himself there, he is flabbergasted to eventually find Sarah Crandall, who also managed to survive. Together, they form a close friendship until the arrival of Benson Thacker who has managed to pilot his small boat into the city's harbor. At this point the tensions rise between the three, particularly between Thacker, who is white and Burton, who is black.
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It Will Grip Your Imagination As No Film Has Ever Done Before!
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The End of the World
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Le monde, la chair et le diable
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El mundo, la carne y el diablo
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O Mundo, a Carne e o Demónio
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Ο κόσμος, η σάρκα και ο Διάβολος
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$1,659,000 (estimated)
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To film the striking images of a deserted New York City, the cast and crew had to start filming at dawn in order to capture the city before the early morning rush. This gave them no more than an hour or two per day in which to film the sequence.
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In his kitchen, Ralph shows Sarah how he's been throwing his dirty dishes out his apartment window because there's no water to wash them with. Sarah simply turns on the faucet and water flows, thanks to the water tower on top of Ralph's building. Ralph should not have been surprised by this, as he should have noticed that his toilet was still working.
In addition, both they and their hair look spotlessly clean, with Sarah's hair being particularly shiny.
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Featured in
Out of this World Super Shock Show (2007).
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I Don't Like It Here
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As the film's final credits cut-in, the film states "The Beginning" rather than "The End."
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Ralph Burton:
They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
[This quotation from Ralph Bunche Park in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of New York City was named in 1979 for Ralph Bunche, the first African-American to win the Nobel Peace Prize. The park is across from the United Nations headquarters; it has the famous quotation from Isaiah 2:4 incised into its wall, and is known as the "Isaiah Wall."]
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