Je suis une légende

Titre original : The Last Man on Earth

1964
PG
1h 26m

ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,7/10

22 k

MA NOTE

Vincent Price in Je suis une légende (1964)

Dr. Robert Morgan (Vincent Price) fights his way through a swarm of vampires to get home in this tense clip from The Last Man on Earth.

Liretrailer3 min 07 s

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Dystopian Sci-Fi Vampire Horror Zombie Horror Drama Horror Sci-Fi

Lorsqu'une maladie transforme toute l'humanité en morts-vivants, le dernier homme sur terre devient un chasseur de vampires réticent.Lorsqu'une maladie transforme toute l'humanité en morts-vivants, le dernier homme sur terre devient un chasseur de vampires réticent.Lorsqu'une maladie transforme toute l'humanité en morts-vivants, le dernier homme sur terre devient un chasseur de vampires réticent.

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,7/10

22 k

MA NOTE

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

Prix
- 1 nomination au total

Ben Cortman
(as Giacomo Rossi-Stuart)

Umberto Raho

Dr. Mercer
(as Umberto Rau)

Christi Courtland

Kathy Morgan

Antonio Corevi

Governor
(as Tony Corevi)

Ettore Ribotta

TV Reporter
(as Hector Ribotta)

Rolando De Rossi

TV Reporter
(uncredited)

Vito Fasano

Man Chasing Morgan
(uncredited)

Giuseppe Mattei

New People Leader
(uncredited)

Enrico Salvatore

TV Reporter
(uncredited)

Alessandro Tedeschi

Passerby
(uncredited)

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Anecdotes
Established by many reviewers (including director George A. Romero himself) as a graphic blueprint for La nuit des morts vivants (1968).

Gaffes
The first station wagon Morgan has (a Chevy) turns into a Ford (look for the 4 headlights) and back to the Chevy (2 headlights). He eventually ends up with the Ford after the zombies wreck the Chevy.

Citations
Robert Morgan: December 1965. Is that all it has been since I inherited the world? Only three years. Seems like 100 million.

Autres versions
MGM's 2005 DVD release does not contain the copyright obstruction found in most prints' opening titles. It reads: "COPYRIGHT 1963 BY ASSOCIATED PRODUCERS INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED." It also contains the complete ending sequence, including the dialog with the baby, that is missing from most prints. This release is also digitally cleaned up, presented in wide screen format, features an interview with Richard Matheson, one of the writers, and is paired with the film Panic In Year Zero. It is missing one element common from other prints. The American International Television title card and theme music that starts off most prints is replaced with an inserted sequence of MGM's famous lion roar trademark and the MGM website address. This DVD was initially problematic on its release because of Sony's then recent purchase of MGM. Sony had canceled the entire Midnite Movies line, and, though the DVD was already set to be released, Sony had initial reservations on releasing it at all. Copies managed to accidentally get shipped to some stores, such as Best Buy, in the US and Canada, where they were immediately flagged as "recalled." Most were, either immediately returned by the stores or pulled by cashiers who should have refused the purchases. Some were still sold, regardless, in early May 2005, before they should have been. By September 2005, Sony released the DVD properly into the wide market.

Connexions
Featured in Aweful Movies with Deadly Earnest: The Last Man on Earth (1975)

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9/10

Amazing film! The apocalypse rarely felt this real.

I never read Richard Matheson's novel 'I am Legend' but I'm particularly intrigued by (science fiction) movies with an apocalyptic theme. And this adaptation simply is one of the most fascinating stories of an already brilliant decade for this type of films. Much more than a grim horror film, this is a gripping drama with an excellent (as always) Vincent Price as the sole and devastated survivor of a deadly plague that exterminated the entire human race, including his own wife and daughter. Price is Dr. Robert Morgan and due to his immunity to the lethal germs, he's the only one to fight victims who return in the shape of vampire/zombie-like creatures. Even though it has already been 3 years, Morgan desperately continues his search for other survivorsThis is one of the most impressive performances Price ever gave away, and a lot more difficult than his usual roles of villains and madmen. Judging by today's standards, I guess the film looks very dated and you can't really refer to the tame 'vamp-zombies' as threatening anymore. But the empty streets and depressing cities, shot in unsettling black and white, still are the ultimate in eeriness! I love it when a film makes you feel miserable and worriedand the lower the budget is, the more efficient this effect is reached!

Like several of my fellow-reviewers already pointed out, this also was an immensely influential film. You can't watch 'Last man on Earth' without being reminded of George A. Romero's milestone genre film 'Night of the Living Dead'. If you then realize this movie was made 4 years before Romero's classic, you can't but reckon the underrated brilliance of this film. The same hopelessness-aspect that made Romero's film so tense features HERE first, in 'Last Man on Earth'! This production offers an ideal proportion of frights and sentiments, luckily without too many tedious scientific speeches or faked drama. 'Last Man on Earth' has to be seen by every SF/horror fan on this planet. For some reason this is one of the most underrated genre efforts ever, and that urgently has to change.