The World, the Flesh and the Devil

“The Most Unusual Story Ever Told!”

Ralph Burton (Harry Belafonte), a miner, digs himself out of a cave-in after several days underground and finds no one above ground who can tell him what happened. New York City is deserted, and he makes a home there until he meets Sarah Crandall (Inger Stevens), who has also survived. Ranald MacDougall brings in Benson Thacker (Mel Ferrer) by boat, and the three of them carry race and desire into a city with no one else left in it.