I've been wanting to see this for 40 years now since the time it was on the CBS late movie, never to return to any home media. Even now, I haven't seen it all because of problems with my video stream. That makes my view a little more critical. Ralph is a black coal miner who discovers after being stuck a few days in a cave in that a nuclear catastrophe wiped all the life off of earth except plants and no bodies are even left behind. He meets Sarah, the last woman alive, "the flesh." Both cling to some very puritanical moral standards, even for the 50's, where he can't even sit at the same table because "people might talk." Ralph begins to like this forced romance until meeting an even stranger survivor. Benson, a boat captain, sick, but still alive for no explainable reason. Benson wants Ralph eliminated so he and Sarah can have the planet to themselves. The messages about racism and the consequences of war couldn't be any stronger than writing it on the characters backs. I grew up watching a lot of these slick MGM movies but found unpolished low budget features like Panic in the Year Zero to be more in my taste. Fine musical score by Miklos Roza who never disappoints me in any film.
