Last man on earth - remastered colour version!

[lionheart]

Hi



£5.99 + free postage. !

I Have orderded this on Play.com ( although looks like they are out of stock at moment )



Play.com (UK) : The Last Man On Earth (Remastered) : DVD - Free Delivery <-- link



but has anyone seen this new remastered version ? both colour and black and white versions are included.



the reviews on amazon sound promising ( but a bit more pricey there )



http://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Earth-D...do Ragona: DVD <--- link









cheers

Rich

[Moor Larkin]

Blimey!!



I didn't even know there was a colour version ...........



Up until now I was quite proud of my monochrome Price classic....



Must do more research in future.......

[billy bentley]

They released two versions at once, or was a b/w struck from the colour neg ?

[narabdela]

IMDB lists it as B/W. Could this be a colourised version?



EDIT: Ah. Yes it is.

[billy bentley]

It's sad enough to be the last man in the world, but then to be colourised too ! Poor chap.

[GRAEME]

This film was made and originally released in B/w, as far as I know.



There must be a colourised version.

[Dave Rattigan]

The film was supposed to have been made in the late 1950s by Hammer, who commissioned the script from Richard Matheson.



According to Matheson, Hammer backed out because they were having such problems with the censors following their original run of Gothic horrors.

[lionheart]

anyways , got the DVD and the remastering quality is very good , much better than the previous version i have. And the colours are not at all gharish , here are a couple of screenies :

[billy bentley]

How's the B&W version lionheart ?

[will.15]

I'm generally opposed to colorized movies, but I have a suspicion that one would look better in color. Although rather disappointing and inferior to the novel, of the three film versions, it's the closest to the novel. But Vincent Price's scientist is a vastly different character than the novel's everyman.

[asiamiles]

There is already an excellent US DVD which pairs the film with PANIC IN YEAR ZERO, so there's really no reason to support this travesty unless one is unable to play R1/NTSC discs.

[lionheart]

name='billy bentley']How's the B&W version lionheart ?

Although the DVD information suggests it has both versions :



The Last Man on Earth (Digitally remastered in colour) [DVD] [1964] - HANAMOKU United Kingdom



It however does not , and has just the colourised version .

so i would like to make this clear , incase others are misled with the with the dvd

readup.



but i am more than happy with it .





cheers Rich

[Stephen Laws]

Richard Matheson's actor of choice for the lead in the never-to-be-realised version of his novel I AM LEGEND was Jack Palance. Interesting thought.



Stephen Laws

The Midnight Man: The Official Website of the author Stephen Laws

[Moor Larkin]

name='will.15']the novel's everyman.

I thought he was legend....... not an everyman. I thought Heston made a reasonable fist of it, but the zombie leader of his version was too much like a company exective, rather than a hippy.



Price seemed much more of a bewildered and confused everyman to me than either Heston or *gulp* Wilfried Smythe .....



Certainly one of the books of my life anyhow..........

[waldo_lydecker]

I put this into a price search engine tonight and absolutely every shop had it as 'sold out'. Most frustrating!

[m35541]

According to Matheson, Hammer backed out because they were having such problems with the censors following their original run of Gothic horrors.

Matheson wrote a script for Hammer which was called The Night Creatures. I think he wrote it in late 1957 and the movie was going to be directed in the spring/summer of 1958 by Val Guest. The UK trade papers of the period have a number of references to it. At one point Hammer had actually announced a start date. It then never got made. However, Hammer still had it on their forthcoming films schedule in press announcements in July and October 1958. Presumably, they were still hoping at that point. After then, it disappeared completely from their release schedule. According to Wayne Kinsey the BBFC objected to it in principle and that was why it wasn't made. He also says that Hammer had problems with the MPAA as well. Matheson retained the script and it was this, after further re-writes, that was eventually filmed in Italy as The Last Man on Earth.