The Omega Man 1971

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 98 min

genre: action

theme: post-apocalyptic

director: Boris Sagal

Score: 5 / 10

The Omega Man (stylized as The Ωmega Man) is a 1971 American post-apocalyptic action film directed by Boris Sagal and starring Charlton Heston as a survivor of a pandemic. It was written by John William Corrington and Joyce Hooper Corrington, based on the 1954 novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. The film's producer, Walter Seltzer, went on to work with Heston again in the dystopian science-fiction film Soylent Green in 1973.

Plot

In March 1975, a Sino-Soviet border conflict escalates into full-scale war in which biological warfare destroys most of the human race. U.S. Army Col. Robert Neville, M.D., is a scientist based in Los Angeles, California who tests the efficacy of various vaccines. As he begins to succumb to the plague, he desperately injects himself with an experimental vaccine, which renders him immune.

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author	John William Corrington Joyce Hooper Corrington Richard Matheson William Peter Blatty
contentLocation	Los Angeles
director	Boris Sagal
editor	William H. Ziegler
events	epidemic solitude
genre	action saga science fiction thriller
keywords	albinism albino apartment building basement garage betray biological warfare build burned at the stake clothe create cult dead body death by burning department store dodger stadium even fortification fortify help heresy hollywood hills hunt kill martial law medical student morning mutant mutants in fiction out of fuel pandemic plague rescue serum show trial sierra nevada sino-soviet border conflict struggle summary trial
musicBy	Ron Grainer
producer	Walter Seltzer
productionCompany	Walter Seltzer
publisher	Warner Bros. Pictures
theme	disaster post-apocalyptic science fiction action science fiction thriller survival the future