Following on from the 1954 book I am Legend Vincent Price starred in 1964 in The last man on earth. Same kind of scennario. Virus escapes, turns ppl into Zombies, Star has to exist is a world of zombies while he works out how to escape or find a cure for said virus........sound familiar?
Thanks, that is interesting. I had no idea that the Omega Man had a predecessor.
So "I am Legend" (the Will Smith movie), which I was hugely disappointed of as it dumbed down the anit-civilisationist hordes to zombie status and lacked all the political overtones of the Heston version, is perhaps more a remake of the Vincent Price than the Heston movie.
Re Detroit, I was there first and last time in 1981. My first American city at the time. Back then, the American dream in the shape of an autoworker having a house in a nice neighborhood and enough money to afford a boat, four cars (for himself, his wife and the two children) plus the kids' college education at Ann Arbor was coming to an end. The neighborhoods were beginning to deteriorate, the infrastructure began to look shabby, yet people were still desperately holding on to that dream. I have a soft spot for Detroit as a city since then.
But you could still see that it had once been the proud workers neighborhood through which in the fifties and sixties the State Department would deliberately guide Russian diplomats and state visitors in their limos to rub in on them how much better an American auto worker lived than his Russian counterpart.