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Release year: 1971

Storyline

Dr Robert Neville has developed an experimental vaccine which makes him the only immune survivor of a biological catastrophe. A gang of homicidal mutants blame science for their condition and attempt to kill him.

Top credits

Directors

Boris Sagal

Writers

Cast

Charlton Heston — Neville
Anthony Zerbe — Matthias
Rosalind Cash — Lisa
Paul Koslo — Dutch

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Did you know

• The production company wanted a locale that looked like an abandoned metropolitan area, but it was too costly to build. The producer drove through downtown Los Angeles one weekend and discovered there were no shoppers, so the majority of the film's exteriors were shot there on weekends.

• The façade/set used for Neville's fortress/home still stands relatively unchanged on Warner Brothers Ranch Park Boulevard (formerly Columbia Ranch) in Burbank. It can be easily seen using Google-Maps 3D. The façade faces east-southeast.

• The writers came up with the idea to make Neville's love interest an African-American woman. Even though an interracial relationship was still considered controversial in the early seventies, the writers figured that in a world where humanity had almost become extinct, the few survivors would no longer care about such issues.