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The World, the Flesh and the Devil is a 1959 American science fiction doomsday film written and directed by Ranald MacDougall. The film stars Harry Belafonte, who was then at the peak of his film career. The film is set in a post-apocalyptic world with very few human survivors.
A miner survives a cave-in and finds a post-apocalyptic New York with two other survivors, one white and one black. IMDb provides cast, crew, reviews, trivia, and more for this 1959 drama romance sci-fi film.
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- Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
- Ranald MacDougall
- 1959-05-01
In Christian theology, the world, the flesh, and the devil (Latin: mundus, caro, et diabolus; Greek: ό κοσμος, ή σαρξ, και ό διαβολος) have been singled out "by sources from St Thomas Aquinas" to the Council of Trent, as "implacable enemies of the soul".
Miner Ralph Burton gets trapped in a small cave-in. He digs his way out to find every living soul on earth has vanished. Making his way to New York City, he eventually encounters, Inger Stevens ...
In Pennsylvania, a black mining engineer Ralph Burton, is trapped in a cave-in for five days when the tunnel he is inspecting collapses. When sounds of rescue work cease, Ralph, in a rage that he is being left to die, digs until he reaches a ladder and climbs out.
- Ranald Macdougall, Al Jennings
- Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer
A man (Harry Belafonte), a woman (Inger Stevens) and a bigot (Mel Ferrer) roam the city of New York, deserted after a nuclear war.
- Sci-Fi
A post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama about a black miner who survives a nuclear holocaust and meets a white woman in New York. They face racial and sexual tensions with another survivor who arrives by boat.
