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of '' The Last Man on Earth'' (1924), and later influenced the novel ''

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'' (1946) by Pat Frank.

Plot

A young aviator, Carlos Martin (played by Raul Roulien), is dumped by his girlfriend ( Gloria Stuart), and heads on a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean. He has engine trouble and makes an emergency landing on an uninhabited island out in the Pacific. Shortly afterward, a pandemic of a new disease called "masculitis" kills every fertile male human on the planet. When efforts to cure the disease fail, the human race is doomed. Humanity's institutions are all run by women, including the Chicago underworld. Carlos escapes the island, and once he returns home and hears the news, it now depends on him to continue the human race.

Cast

Production

The film was shot during April 1933, with location scenes photographed at the Grand Central Airport in

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.Gevinson, Alan (ed). ''Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960''. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp 511-512. web December 3, 2015 Other cast members include Edna May Oliver, Joan Marsh, Edward Van Sloan, and Peaches Jackson. A sequence depicts look-a-likes of the two top scientists of the era, Albert Einstein and

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, trying to find a cure for ''masculitis''. Another scene portrays a

burlesque A burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects.

show dubbed "Girls of all Nations".

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* * * {{Alfred L. Werker 1933 films 1933 musical comedy films 1930s science fiction comedy films Fox Film films American science fiction comedy films Remakes of American films American musical comedy films American black-and-white films Films about aviators Science fiction musical films Films directed by Alfred L. Werker Films set in the Pacific Ocean Films set on uninhabited islands Films shot in California American post-apocalyptic films Sound film remakes of silent films Films about viral outbreaks 1930s English-language films 1930s American films