Die Welt, das Fleisch und der Teufel (1959)

Die Welt, das Fleisch und der Teufel: Directed by Ranald MacDougall. With Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer. 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.

“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.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWell, 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?u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOf 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 Harrisu0026#39;s line from Starship Troopers about how weu0026#39;re in it for the species. Will all three of them and anyone else they contact decide weu0026#39;re in it for the species in The World, the Flesh and the Devil?u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eDirector 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?”