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Planet of the Apes, Omega Man & Soylent Green are movies that one wouldn't think a Hollywood icon like Heston would take on while he was still very bankable. Thank goodness for us, he did.
Ahh yes, Mr. Anthony Zerbes...one the greatest support actors of his time...( I place him with the likes of Burgess Meredith).... I know people who love him even from Being the villain in "Kiss meets the Phantom of the Park"🤣
"Build coffins. That's all you'll need." This has always been a favorite film of mine. You have a great channel. You deserve all your subscribers. Great video.
@@MoviesMusicMonsters I hope you do a video on the movie Soylent Green. Both The Omega Man & Soylent Green are my favorite early 1970s films along with THX1138 & Duel.
GREAT one-liners in this movie. The only movie with better one-liners is Fandango with Kevin Costner. Every line in that movie is a one-liner. but im “full of crap.”
Reminds of the doomday cripts or sealed containers that can hold may bodies. Has a lot to do with recommendation that human population needs to be kept under X for it to survive.
The movie is in two half's, the first is great, the second when he meets Lisa not so much, and shows a woman can screw your life up, as Neville survived for around 5 years on his own, but only lasted a week after he met Lisa.
@@proto-geek248 I did see the Omega Man with Heston at the theater around 1970. I didn't The Last Man on Earth with Price until maybe 4 years ago on youtube. . I didn't know there was a 3rd version until a few minutes ago. Obviously the story is one moviegoers like .
God, I've become addicted to this channel. Dan, you are really doing an awesome job with choosing and presenting this product. The only pain (ooooh, the pain) is the wait in between! Thank you. Suggestions: where is the flying sub nowadays from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea? Runner up: where are Lost in Space's Chariot and Space Pod?
I loved the Charlton Heston version. He goes into it boots and all and the look of the film is sooooo cool. I think it’s often overlooked that Heston made three massively influential films in this genre: The Omega Man, Soylent Green and Planet Of The Apes. Thank you for talking about it! He was pretty amazing.
Thanks, Dan! My best friend and I saw "The Omega Man" when it came out, when I was sixteen years-old and we were blown away! I've seen it lots of time since then and it's still one of my favorite movies.
I went to see this with my dad and younger brother. My brother freaked out and we had to leave about 40 minutes in. I didn't see the end until it was on network TV a few years later. BTW, I'm delighted to find out that Anthony Zerbe is still alive! Such a great character actor.
I think Anthony Zerbe's last name is pronounced Zer-bee, as in rhymes with Herbie, or indeed Furby. I've always liked this film, mostly due to his performance. I think he's a great actor. He played a detective throughout the second series of Harry O, starring David Jansen, and plays him and sympathetic and helpful, rather than the usual opponent. He's always worth watching.
if I'm not mistaken, that section of the Warner Bros. lot where Neville's "Honky Paradise" was just got torn down. It was the last reason I had visiting Hollywood on my bucket list. I remember, in the days before VCR's, monitoring TV guide for literally months and months for it showing on a tv station, then staying up late with an old audio tape recorder and capturing the movie's audio and music, that I listened to over and over again as a kid.
Correct! Another piece of Hollywood history demolished. But the Honky Paradise row was a replica of a neighborhood along Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. The townhouses still standing and looking good.
I loved watching all these movies when i was a kid in the 1970s, they were fun, and still appreciate them today. In the opening scene when Robert Neville is driving the red car, in the background you can see another car driving down the ramp, and just after he inserts the 8 track, you can see a guy to the left walking on the sidewalk. Its still cool to be watching these classic films, they dont make them like they used to.
“THERE IS NO PHONE RINGING, DAMN IT!” One of my all-time favorite movies. Like you, seeing this at a young age both frightened me and drew me in, and has stuck with me all these years.
Great Stuff! I'm 71 and grew up with these movies. There was a series called Creature Features that started with a six fingered hand rising out of a swamp or something. I'm pretty sure that it was on Channel 11 out of New York and was on Saturday night. Keep'm coming Dan! Thanks
I think that is the original Creature Features and is still around but out of CA now and on RU-vid with different hosts (Vincent, Tangela, and Livingston) but still with many of the great old horror and sci-fi movies from 30 years and before. Shows every Friday and Saturday.
@@csumme7 Technically, there were a bunch of "Creature Features." Screen Gems released a bunch of old Universal monster pictures to TV in 1957 and called the collection "Shock!" which led to Shock Theater. "Son of Shock!" collection came out in 1958, and "Creature Features" was released in 1960. According to Wikipedia, Screen Gems encouraged each broadcaster to come up with their own horror host, and at some point, people started using the name "Creature Features." Bob Wilkins' version didn't start until 1971, so it wasn't the first. Vincent, Tangella and Livingston have done a fine job keeping the tradition alive. Or undead, if you prefer ...
@@MoviesMusicMonstersI grew us in northwest NJ in the 60's and 70's. For us, channel 9 was WWOR out of Secaucus, NJ. They aired the "4:30 Movie" that my friends and I would race home from the bus stop after school each day to watch. They often did theme weeks like "Monster Week" when they played the many Godzilla movies each afternoon, and "Apes Week" for the "Planet of the Apes" movies. Great memories! Thanks for making these videos, Dan!
My father loved this movie. When I was 12 years old, we were visiting relatives in Worcester Mass. As we were leaving dad said we need to get out of the city before dark. He then explained where he got it from. We then rented the Omega Man. Great flick, I will stop and watch anytime.
My mother took me to see this at the Cinema when first released, I was around 11 Yrs old, it scared me too the core, haha…. Still gives me chills, those eyes !!
So much to love about this film and it relates so well to the pandemic time. I downloaded it in March 2020 when things broke loose. Great small details... Neville pops an 8 track of an elevator music version of "Theme from a Summer Place" into the car's player in the opening scenes.... His personal flashback of news coverage of the war, with the cool background news graphic of the hammer and sickle falling on the world. LOVE IT.
I had the pleasure of telling Charlton Heston in person how much I loved the Omega Man. It was around 1974 and I grew up in Las Vegas. My parents had taken us kids to the top of one of the hotel/casinos to have lunch. Vegas was much different back then. I was 13 years old and loved Planet of the Apes and The Omega Man. I had no clue of Mr. Hestons famous movies like the 10 Commandments or Ben Hur. There was a mini-golf course on the roof next to the pool and there was Charlton Heston with his whole family playing mini-golf. I slipped away from my parents and went up to Charlton. What a dumb insensitive thing for me to do. Invade his private time with his family. But that is what I did, and I told Mr. Heston how much I loved him in both Planet of the Apes and The Omega Man. He was so kind and patient with me even though I barged in on his game, he answered a couple questions and I thanked him and left. I can see it in my mind like it was yesterday.
Thanks Dan, really enjoying your channel. I've had a few brushes with celebrities. Dick York, Alan Young, Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, William Shatner, Richard Anderson, Peter Revera, Paul williams. there might be a couple more, I forget. In the mid 80s I got to sit in the original Hero #1 1966 Batmobile/Futura in a parking lot being loaded on an open car hauler and "the Car" from the movie the car.@@MoviesMusicMonsters
I just got chills up my arm. That’s fantastic! I live a few hours from St. Helen in Michigan. I had no idea for years that he spent so much time there. A friend has a cabin just off the lake and at one time he owned acres of land across Lake St. Helen for duck hunting. There’s even the Charlton Heston Academy school! Unbelievable! Anyhow I think St. Helen needs a bronze statue of him with rifle in hand! Great story you shared. Memories!
Not only did Ron Ginner, write the Dr. Who Theme but the theme to another iconic sci-fi mini series "the Prisoner " which if you listen carefully enough you can hear it as well in the score to The Omega Man.
Sadly the Building facade that was Chucks home in the film, was demolished last September. The friends fountain though still exists. It was moved to our main Lot. Where it can be seen on our studio tour.
I was 9 when I first saw this on TV. My dad had me watch this with him and i really enjoyed it. The weird thing I remember from that time was I was watching it in March 1975. I only remember because of the calendar shown in the movie. Same month and year.
I love the soundtrack to this movie and still listen to it quite often. I think the soundtrack being 'dated' is one of the charms of this movie. It sets it in a specific time and place and brings a special atmosphere to it. One of my all time favourite movies.
I love the OMEGA MAN, i watched this movie when i was a young lad and it had a great impact on me. Its BASED on the novel, it is not an exact copy word for word . It's a wonderful and creepy SCI FI action / horror movie.
I SUBSCRIBED because you showed the same enthusiasm I had when I was 10 years old watching "Omega Man" in my small town's theater. I was very mature for my age. So I was permitted to do a lot for my age. Though I got in trouble that day. Because I was only supposed to watch it once. I watched it three times instead. I just got yelled at. It was worth it. I still listen to the soundtrack to this day. Like I will right now. THANK YOU.
I saw that movie as a kid and had nightmares for years. I live in San Francisco where there are bars on just about every door and window along the streets. At night, I think about Heston's character having to live in the same kind of world. Thanks for this wonderful and thoughtful commentary and video! 👍
I remember when Omega Man first came out. The local theater had a mini riot where people smashed the glass of the theater because they couldn't get to the sold out show.
Heston carries the coolest submachinegun of that era, the Smith and Wesson Model 76, designed for the Navy Seals in Vietnam. I’ve wanted one of those since I was 10 years old!
The S&W 76 9mm was based on the Swedish K SMG that SEALs & SF wanted but Sweden 🇸🇪 refused to assist USA with combat missions, special forces in SE Asia. By the time S&W had the 76s ready it was around 1974. Special Ops & SEAL-UDT was ending.
The weapon Heston is using, shooting through a window in the beginning of the movie, is a Swedish submachine gun, a ”Kpist m/45 B”, the same type I was trained on during my military service in Sweden.
My favorite childhood film. I imagined that if I was the only one left in the world, I would live in my public school principal's office. I wonder what that all means.
This movie is one of the best movies ever made. I remember watching it the drive-in before it came out on creature features in the bay area, hosted by Bob Wilkins. And it's one of my all time favorites. I watch this movie periodically and always the soundtrack holds up as one of the best scores of all time. ' You're part of the family now Dan '😂❤
Damn, I miss Creature Features! Bob Wilkins was amazing! I also loved him as Captain Cosmic. I enjoyed John Stanley as the host of Creature Features as well.
@@justafanofnerdculture7602 my connection to Bob goes so far back, that I won a art contest and got a signed poster of Bob. And a tour of ktvu studios. Then many years later I met Bob again at wondercon in SF where I had him sign the poster again. Then he died shortly after. I don't think the soundtrack is dated at all. I think it holds up as a unique piece like the good, the bad and the ugly. And the robed ' family ' members were the inspiration for George Lucas's version of the emperor. I thought that was chilling back then. Because I'd seen in magazines that there was supposed to be an emperor Cameo in the sequel to star wars. ⚡
@rickytoddbotelho9555 That’s an awesome story! I have so many fond memories of watching Creature Features on Saturday nights and Captain Cosmic weekdays after school. Bob's a big reason why I've been such a sci-fi, fantasy, and horror Nerd my whole life. A few years ago, I ordered a couple of Creature Features DVDs. One is basically a video scrapbook, and the other is about the history of Creature Features. The latter included a photo of Mr. Wilkins and Mr. Stanley, together in the Creature Features studio. The photo is autographed by John. It is proudly on display with my other geeky collectibles.
Sci fi took off in the 'seventies. Chuck Heston was obviously a driving force (Planet of the Apes, Omega Man, Soylent Green and later Solar Crisis). Don't forget Edward G. Robinson was in SG. He respected and supported the genre.
My personal favorite movie adaptation of Richard Mathesons work, is A Stir of Echoes. A movie mostly forgotten because it´s release came at the same time as The Sixth Sense.
Matheson was a prolific writer, novels and short stories many of which used on the original Twilight Zone. My favorite novel of his…The Incredible Shrinking Man.
Dan, I just want to say that my son and I love this channel. Thank you for letting me dive into my own childhood and sharing it with my son in this way. I hope you have continued success with all you are doing.
I hate to break it to you, but yes you can see cars being driven in the Omega Man. In the beginning when he's driving and listening to music, there's a brief shot out the front windscreen of the car. Ahead, moving cars can be seen crossing the intersection.
LOVED The Omega Man. Also saw it has a 7 or 8 and was enthralled by the empty L.A. and to this day it is a fave of mine. The soundtrack by Ron Grainer is fabulous!! Thanks for the review and the history of the film!!
I too love the score. According the sleeve notes for the soundtrack, Heston himself chose Ron Grainer because of his music for Patrick McGoohan's _The Prisoner_ which was very popular at the time and had a certain otherworldly texture to it that Heston wanted to bring to The Omega Man.
Always reminds me of the shortest sci fi/horror story - "The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door ..." ("Knock " by Frederic Brown) [Someone, I can' remember who wrote a novella that gave the story a happy ending - turns out it was the last woman on Earth who was knocking]
There was a version between Heston and Smith starring Mark Dascos, it was on the Sci Fi channel (before it was SYFY) I think it was called "I am Omega".
William Shatner and Nichelle Nicohols got there first with that first interracial kiss, in the Star Trek episode "Plato's Stepchildren." My digging into that claimed that they slipped it in without letting the network censors know it was coming. Can you BELIEVE we were once that uptight?
"I'll give you my gun when you pry (or take) it from my cold, dead hands.” lol @ Chuck Heston As a kid watching the movie, it was both scary and creepy.
I saw the movie in a theater when it was originally released and thoroughly enjoyed it except for the ending. I thought the music was great and nearly 50 years later I managed to find the soundtrack on CD. By the way, Ron Grainer is also the composer of the "The Prisoner" theme from Patrick McGoohan's groundbreaking sci-fi/spy/psychology miniseries.
Yeah; the soundtrack from Film Score Monthly is now a collector's item, and I have the updated CD re-issue. Ron did lots of great music, from movies to The Prisoner to Doctor Who, etc, R.I.P. Ron! I also saw Omega Man and Soylent Green in the theaters. Heston had a screen presence that couldn't be matched; you just knew he was the good guy as soon as you saw him. Who else could be Moses AND the Omega Man in one career?!
this was my all-time favorite movie. in the 70's a movie would be shown once a year, this one usually in the summer. if you missed it for any reason, well, too bad. i would get psyched for weeks waiting for this movie to come on and nothing would stop me from seeing it. i loved the theme music and i would audio tape it or try to write it out in scale form. once i lost the audio the memory of the theme would slowly leave me and i would cry when it finally left my memory. at that point it was a countdown to next year.
The Omega Man is a remake and it had a huge impact on me when my parents took me to see it as a child, I loved it! The original movie was called "The Last Man on Earth" and it is the truest version to the book of the three movies based upon it. KL studio classics produced a Blu Ray of it and it is the cleanest version of it that I have been able to find. The 3rd attempt in 2007 "I am Legend" is the least accurate to Matheson's novel, I found it to be entertaining but as I watched it I did not consider it to be a remake at all. Robert Neville was a blonde haired German for one... Anyhoo I have read the book many times through the years and it still holds up.
Almost forgot: Ron Grainer's score is perfect; poignant and haunting, grabbing you by the gut and putting you in the movie with Neville, like when the camera pulls back from his living room out the window showing his isolation, Richie's death, and Neville's death and the credits, as well as the action scenes, all conveying the feeling of being there and making you think about what happened after they drove away and left Neville for dead. (Why didn't they give him a decent burial, at least?). Additionally, Grainer also wrote the score for The Prisoner, and you can hear bits of it in the action scenes. Was the sound track ever released? I've been keeping my eye out for it all these years but never found it. Really want it. As for Boris Sagal, he had a great, undeservedly unsung career until his untimely demise on the set of World War Three with David Soul from Another helicopter accident after Vic Morrow suffered his. I understand he was somewhat estranged from his daughter Katie Sagal, and I only hope they might have had a chance to mend that to some degree before he passed away. Aside from WW3, he also directed a couple other shows I really like: The Money Changers with Kirk Douglas, and the wonderful period piece The Awakening Land with Elizabeth Montgomery and Hal Holbrook, based on the bestselling book trilogy, as well as a number of films before Omega Man. He was known to be able to make pictures efficiently and on budget, making him the perfect choice to do this movie. Anyway, just wanted to add this in before I forgot it. Now, time to eat. Hey, what day is it anyway, Monday? The hell it is, it's Saturday! I don't have to dress for dinner til tomorrow!
The desolate downtown LA city scenes of this film were made possible when most people worked Monday through Friday, and many businesses were closed on the weekends. Saturday was a day off, and Sunday until noon was often spent in church in the suburbs. There was not the continuous 24/7 lifestyle we are used to living today.
The Vincent Price version "The Last Man on Earth" was a better movie than most give it credit for. It's genuinely creepy and the influences for George Romero classic is very apparent. Incidentally, Prices character was named Robert Morgan in the film, not Robert Neville. Also incidentally, the Morgan character in The Walking Dead series, was directly taken from Price's character in The Last Man on Earth... name and all.
A) When THE OMEGA MAN was released on August 1st, 1971 ... I was 12 and it became one of my favorite films I saw in theaters as the main or supporting feature about a dozen times. B) I had the one-sheet on the inside of my bedroom door until I left home at 17. C) I can still hum Ron Grainer's theme and -- often do and D) I met Charlton Heston when I was 21 and we talked about the film for about 10 minutes and ... ... and last but not least -- E) My dear, sainted mother was reading I AM LEGEND when the labor pains began leading to my birth. So .... yes, this film and all of the incarnations of the book & film made / make a difference in my life. D.A. filmmaker ps: There is more to the story, the poster and why I saw the film so many times. Some of it life-threatening scary upon its release -- but not something for the squeamish on RU-vid. In a sense, THE OMEGA MAN'S fictional idea of 'one man against the monsters' literally saved my young, real life of the events of Friday, August 13, 1971.
The first time I saw this movie was in a drive in theater as a double feature with Barbra Streisand's "What's Up Doc?". Definitely a roller coaster movie experience!
Unfortunately the Neville mansion set was torn down this spring to make way for some sound stages built to make TGI movies. The neighborhood included sets from movies and TV shows dating back to the fifties including Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, The Partridge Family, Small Soldiers, Nat. Lmpn Christmas movie and so many more. They save the Friends fountain.
