Le monde, la chair et le diable

Titre original : The World, the Flesh and the Devil

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Harry Belafonte, Mel Ferrer, and Inger Stevens in Le monde, la chair et le diable (1959)

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Un mineur pris au piège d'un effondrement refait surface et, en découvrant que l'humanité a été anéantie par un holocauste nucléaire, il part à la recherche d'autres survivants.Un mineur pris au piège d'un effondrement refait surface et, en découvrant que l'humanité a été anéantie par un holocauste nucléaire, il part à la recherche d'autres survivants.Un mineur pris au piège d'un effondrement refait surface et, en découvrant que l'humanité a été anéantie par un holocauste nucléaire, il part à la recherche d'autres survivants.

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Récompenses
- 1 nomination

Anecdotes
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.

Gaffes
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.

Citations
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.
Ralph Burton: [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."]

Crédits fous
As the film's final credits cut-in, the film states "The Beginning" rather than "The End."

Connexions
Featured in Out of this World Super Shock Show (2007)

Bandes originales
I Don't Like It Here
(uncredited)
Written by Harry Belafonte and Ranald MacDougall
Sung by Harry Belafonte

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7/10

Belafonte on Ferrer's possible racial bias: No, the only thing he has against me is that I'm younger than he is. I can understand that.

In the '50s the nuclear holocaust was never far from the popular imagination. This picture is one of many fictional efforts to show what might have happened.

By being trapped in a Pennsylvania mine, Belafonte is one of the very few people on earth (as far as we know from the film, only three) to escape annihilation. He manages to get out of the mine on his own (the first of many plot contrivances), goes to New York City and finds it depopulated, except for Inger Stevens, who eventually comes out of hiding. It's mostly a picture about loneliness. As much as we may resent the jostling masses in our midst, what if they were gone?

Actually, it spurs a fantasy, too. Imagine that you had the pickings of all of New York to yourself, and imagine that you were a handyman who could rig up generators and the like, and imagine that you found a comely woman to keep you company. Could be worse.

But we are asked to ignore too much in the picture, the fact that only one person in all of the city survived, the fact that not a single rotting body is shown on the streets, the fact that the shortwave transmissions Belafonte regularly monitors show that the rest of the world is empty, too (except, eventually, for Mel Ferrer, who was sailing during the nuclear blasts)-- all a bit too much. The film tries too hard to be an allegory when it should have been good, logical science fantasy.

Nevertheless, TWTF&TD is well worth a watch.