# The Last Man on Earth (1964 film)

The Last Man on Earth (Italian title: L'Ultimo uomo della Terra) is a 1964 Italian horror/science fiction film based upon Richard Matheson's best-selling novel I Am Legend.
    Directed by Ubaldo Ragona. Written by Furio Monetti, Ubaldo Ragona, Willaim Reischester, and Richard Matheson

## Robert Morgan

* Another day to live through. Better get started.
* December 1965. Is that all it has been since I inherited the world? Only three years. Seems like a hundred million.
* There was a time that eating was pleasurable. Now it bores me.
* A dying world. An empty, dead, silent world.
* I can't afford the luxury of anger. Anger can make me vulnerable. It can destroy my reason and reason's the only advantage I have over them.
* [filling up a bag with stakes] How many more of these will I have to make before they're all destroyed? They want my blood. It's their lives or mine. I still get squeamish.
* Better put that garlic back where it belongs. I can't live a heartbeat away from hell and forget it.
* Another day... another day to start all over again.
* This is Robert Morgan. If somebody can hear me, answer me. For God's sake, answer me!
* Your new society sounds charming.
* Freaks! All of you, freaks! Mutations! I'm a man! The last... man...

## Other

* Kathy Morgan: Mommy, where are you? Mommy, I can't see.
* Ben Cortman: Morgan! Do you hear, Morgan? Morgan, come out!
* Virginia Morgan: [after becoming a vampire] Let... me... in.

## Dialogue

    Ben Cortman: There are stories being told, Bob.
    Robert Morgan: By people who are out of their minds with fear.
    Ben Cortman: Maybe. But there are too many to be just coincidental. Stories about people who have died and have come back.
    Robert Morgan: They're stories, Ben, stories.
    Ben Cortman: You're whistling past the graveyard.
    Robert Morgan: Is that a commentary on my work at the lab?
    Ben Cortman: Who is it?
    Robert Morgan: It's me, Ben! We're late!
    [Ben answers the door]
    Robert Morgan: Ben, what's the matter with you?
    Ben Cortman: Nothing and I'm going to keep it that way.
    Robert Morgan: Ben, look, let's talk about this.
    Ben Cortman: There's nothing to talk about. You think I'm out of my mind. You laughed at me and my theory. You might be one of them.
    Robert Morgan: Ben, look, you're ill. You ought to see a doctor.
    Ben Cortman: No doctors! You take care of your life, I'll take care of mine. Now get away from here. You understand, get away from here!
    Dr. Mercer: You're the only one who wasn't afraid to come here today.
    Robert Morgan: What's going to happen, Dr. Mercer? Is everybody in the world going to die before someone finds the answer?
    Dr. Mercer: No, I don't think so. I don't deny there's some strange evolutionary process going on, but mankind won't be destroyed. The fact that you and I are working here today is evidence of that.
    Ruth Collins: But you lived through all this. Do you know why?
    Robert Morgan: Perhaps I was chosen.

## Tagline

* By night they leave their graves, crawling, shambling, through empty streets, whimpering, pleading, begging for his blood!
* Do you dare to imagine what it would be like to be... the last man on Earth... or the last woman?
* Alive among the lifeless... alone among the crawling creatures of evil that make the night hideous with their inhuman craving!

## Cast

* Vincent Price as Dr. Robert Morgan
* Franca Bettoia as Ruth Collins, an infected individual
* Emma Danieli as Virginia Morgan, the wife of Robert Morgan
* Giacomo Rossi-Stuart as Ben Cortman
* Umberto Raho as Dr. Mercer
* Christi Courtland as Kathy Morgan
* Antonio Corevi as the Governor
* Ettore Ribotta as the TV Reporter
* Rolando De Rossi
* Carolyn De Fonseca dubbed for Ruth Collins' voice in the English release of the film. She was uncredited.
* Giuseppe Mattei as the leader of the survivors. He was also uncredited.

## External links

* The Last Man on Earth quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* Review at Cinefantastique
* The Last Man on Earth (Full movie available at the Internet Archive)