The World, the Flesh and the Devil

New York: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1959. Vintage press kit for the 1959 film, here called an "editor's portfolio." Full-color illustrated pocketed folder, containing 16 black and white photographs, and 5 gatherings of promotional reading material.

Based on M.P. Shiel's 1901 novel "The Purple Cloud." A miner trapped in a cave for several days resurfaces, only to realize humankind has been virtually wiped out in a nuclear holocaust. He travels to New York, where he bands together with a young woman survivor, but their fragile existence is soon disrupted by the arrival of another survivor.

Shot on location in New York and New Jersey.

Folder, photographs, and promotional material Near Fine.

[Book #151606]