The Last Man on Earth (1924 film)

The Last Man on Earth
Directed by John G. Blystone
Written by Donald W. Lee, John D. Swain
Starring Earle Foxe
Cinematography Allen M. Davey
Distributed by Fox Film Corporation
Release date
November 2, 1924 (US)
Running time
70 minutes
Country United States
Language Silent film
English intertitles

The Last Man on Earth (1924) was a silent comedy film directed by John G. Blystone, starring Earle Foxe[1] and produced by Fox Film Corporation and loosely based on Mary Shelley's 1826 novel The Last Man. The film was remade as the semi-musical comedy It's Great to Be Alive (1933), and influenced the sci-fi novel Mr. Adam (1946).

Plot

In the year 1950, a plague known as "masculitis" has killed every fertile man on Earth over the age of 14. Womankind takes over the world and a woman becomes President of the United States.

Meanwhile, a female aviator, Gertie (Grace Cunard), flying over a redwood forest, finds smoke rising from the chimney of a cabin, where she discovers a reclusive hillbilly named Elmer Smith (Earle Foxe). He is captured and examined at a hospital. All the women in the world soon begin to fight over Smith.

Preservation status

Copies are held in Cinematheque Royale de Belgique(Brussels) and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.[2] [3]

References

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