The Story of Mankind
The most far-out courtroom thriller you'll ever see. Set in outer space, the defendant is all of us and the issue is whether we should be allowed to survive. Defending counsel, the Spirit of Man, says yes. Prosecuting counsel, the Devil, says no.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: July 21, 2009
- Originally Released: 1957
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ronald Colman, Vincent Price, Hedy Lamarr, Chico Marx, Agnes Moorehead, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Peter Lorre, Dennis Hopper & Virginia Mayo | |
Directed by | Irwin Allen | |
Screenwriting by | Charles Bennett & Irwin Allen | |
Composition by | Paul Sawtell | |
Director of Photography: | Nicholas Musuraca |
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User Ratings: 119
Rating: 1.5/5 --
Mind-curdling in its concentrated ghastliness.
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Description by OLDIES.com:
Here is the most far-out courtroom thriller you'll ever see. The setting is outer space, the defendant is all of us and the issue is whether we should be allowed to survive. Defending counsel, the Spirit of Man (Ronald Colman), says yes. Prosecuting counsel, the Devil (Vincent Price), says no. And each presents historical evidence in vignettes that feature Hedy Lamarr as Joan of Arc, Dennis Hopper as Napoleon, Harpo Marx as Isaac Newton, plus Groucho, Chico, Virginia Mayo, Peter Lorre, Charles Coburn, Agnes Moorehead - 25 stars in all! Produced, directed and co-written by Irwin Allen (The Poseidon Adventure), this uncommon curio is Colman's final film and the last time the three Marx Brothers appeared in the same movie."
Product Description:
Future "Master of Disaster" Irwin Allen produced this curious but inarguably fascinating adaptation of Henrik Willem Van Loon's best- selling historical volume. A Celestial Tribunal has been convened to decide the fate of the Earth after the invention of nuclear weapons, with The Devil (Vincent Price) and The Spirit of Man (Ronald Colman) debating if humankind should be allowed to continue or be exterminated once and for all. Both men present examples of human behavior at its best and worst, including Dennis Hopper as Napoleon, Hedy Lamarr as Joan of Arc, Virginia Mayo as Cleopatra, Peter Lorre as Nero, Edward Everett Horton as Sir Walter Raleigh, and Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, and Chico Marx as, respectively, Peter Minuit, Sir Isaac Newton, and a monk (yes, the producers had the daring and vision to cast the Marx Brothers without having them play any scenes together). THE STORY OF MANKIND proved to be the last film for both Ronald Colman and Hedy Lamarr; it was also the last time the three Marx Brothers appeared in the same film, though the individual Marxes appeared in a few films following this.
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- Sales Rank: 1,098
- UPC: 883316175569
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