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The Last Man on Earth (1924 film) - Wikipedia
The Last Man on Earth is a 1924 American silent comedy film directed by John G. Blystone, starring Earle Foxe and produced by Fox Film Corporation and loosely based on Mary Shelley's 1826 novel The Last Man.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Man_on_Earth_(1924_film)
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The Last Man on Earth (1924) - IMDb
Directed by John G. Blystone. With Earle Foxe, Grace Cunard, Gladys Tennyson, Derelys Perdue. In the future year of 1940, a young man is rejected and humiliated by a girl and goes off to be a hermit in a redwood forest. By 1950, a dreadful plague of "Masculitis" has killed every male over the age of puberty but our hermit hero. He's become a national treasure, and millions of man-starved females crave him, yet he still wants the gal who wouldn't have him.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015051/
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The Last Man on Earth - Film Comment
Around the time of the 2016 election a few newspapers referenced the 1924 silent The Last Man on Earth as the first film to show a woman as president of the U.S. As any old-movie lover knows, “first” is a dangerous pronouncement.
https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/last-man-earth-1924-great-alive-1933/
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The Last Man on Earth (1924) - Rotten Tomatoes
In this feminist comedy-fantasy, a strange illness has killed all males 14 years and older. Women naturally inherit the Earth and all is peaceful until Elmer is found living in an isolated cabin. He is brought to Washington, D.C. where the Senate, Congress, and the First Lady fight over him.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_last_man_on_earth_1924
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The Last Man on Earth (1924) directed by John G. Blystone • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd
An epidemic has killed off all of the fertile men on earth, except for Elmer Smith, a hillbilly who lives out in a cabin in the Ozarks, when he is discovered, every woman on the planet begins fighting over him.
https://letterboxd.com/film/the-last-man-on-earth-1924/
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'Last Man on Earth': 1924 silent relic imagines matriarchal dystopia, for laughs - Chicago Tribune
At the Music Box Theatre: A crackpot 1924 silent film, recently restored, imagines an epidemic of "masculitis" wiping out all males over 14. Except one. Ladies, he's all yours.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/ct-mov-last-man-on-earth-1109-story.html
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The Last Man on Earth (1924) - Overview - TCM.com
Overview of The Last Man on Earth, 1924, directed by J. G. Blystone, with Jean Johnson, Buck Black, Maurice Murphy, at Turner Classic Movies
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/497221/The-Last-Man-on-Earth/
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The Last Man on Earth | Silent Film Festival
All these men made important contributions to the studio, but the typical Fox release was generally cheaper, less ambitious, and destined for obscurity.
http://silentfilm.org/archive/the-last-man-on-earth
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The Last Man on Earth (1964) -- Full Movie Review!
Fast on the heels of 1960's The Last Woman on Earth, we now have 1964's The Last Man on Earth, which is based on Richard Matheson's novel I am Legend.
http://www.millionmonkeytheater.com/LastManonEarth.html
