Peter Graves

George O'Hanlon, Jr.

Kathleen Quinlan

Verna Bloom

Michael-James Wixted

Noble Willingham

Jay W. MacIntosh

Doug Chapin

Ken Sansom

Beans Morocco

John Llewellyn Moxey

Lewis John Carlino

Sandor Stern

Michael D. Margulies

Louis Lane

John A. Martinelli

Eddie Foy III

Roger George

Jerry Ziesmer

Charles W. Fries

Solomon Brewer

Carol Daniels

Robert Prince

Lola 'Skip' McNalley

Gerald I. Isenberg

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Science fiction movies from the seventies (1970-1979), including TV movies as well as stand-alone mini-series. This list uses a fairly strict definition of science fiction, and therefore does not include most films that deal with fantasy, the supernatural, or super heroes. Films that fall more under the umbrella of horror (like a lot of zombie and pandemic films) have also been omitted.

Sci-Fi Cinema in the 1970s

End of Days Movies

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Love the forgotten films.  Also I enjoy a good bad movies, well bathed in pig fat.

My collection so far

Where Have All the People Gone

The Jozak Company

Alpine Productions

Metromedia Producers Corporation

United States of America

**_When human (over)population is reduced naturally_**

A father, son & daughter (Peter Graves, George O'Hanlon Jr. and Kathleen Quinlan) are camping out in the high country of SoCal when something strange happens in the sky and they are forced to walk down to the nearest town to find out what happened. Yet the village is eerily silent and all the people are… gone. Verna Bloom plays a traumatized woman they find alive. 

While debuting on television, “Where Have All the People Gone?” (1974) succeeds in making the viewer feel as if it’s an end of the world scenario. It’s thoroughly mundane, but dramatic and realistic. Don’t expect aliens or zombies to appear (rolling my eyes). 

Future movies that cover similar terrain with a bigger budget include “Carriers” (2009), “The Road” (2009), “Vanishing on 7th Street” (2010) and “Monsters” (2010). It’s not as thrilling as “Carriers” or as good as “Monsters,” but I prefer it to the listless and overrated “The Road.” (I’ve never seen “Vanishing on 7th Street,” so I can’t compare it). “Monsters,” as the title suggests, throws in post-apocalyptic monsters, but not until the last act.

Naturally these kinds of downbeat flicks address grim questions like: Do you forsake all sense of morality in an attempt to survive – lie, steal, forsake and murder – or do you hold on to your moral compass, come what may? Is life worth living if you must become an immoral, wicked savage to survive? Isn't it better to live with dignity at all costs – fight with nobility and die with dignity when and if you must? 

Human carcasses reduced to white elements was done previously in the original Star Trek episode “The Omega Glory” while the desolate post-apocalyptic scenario recalls “Miri.” 

The movie runs 1 hour, 14 minutes, and was shot in the greater Los Angeles area as follows: Lake of the Woods (town of Rainbow), which is about an hour’s drive northwest of Hollywood; Agoura (grocery store), which is ten miles north of Malibu in the high country; Malibu Canyon Road in the Santa Monica Mountains; and Malibu (the house by the shore and beach scene).

GRADE: B-

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