Films

June, 1959

Eerie and suspenseful, if over-preachy, The World, the Flesh and the Devil is a sci-fi attack on the myth of racial superiority. Harry Belafonte plays a Negro who is seemingly the only guy alive after World War IV; he is militantly color conscious and appallingly respectful toward the only girl in the world, blonde Inger Stevens. In the starkly naked city of New York, Harry's mainly interested in expressing grievances about discrimination. This goes on even after the girl, taken with his good lo...