The description said an alien invasion, poison gas and robots. I thought it would be like War of the Worlds.
It's hard to imagine a more laid back movie about the extermination of
all humanity. The screenwriter said that someone suggested the title as a
joke and it stuck. The critic A.S. Hamrah used it for his book, The Earth Dies Streaming.
Starts with most of humanity dying or having died rather peacefully of an invisible poison gas. A handful of middle aged people survive in a quaint English town. Each was protected in some way, one in an oxygen tent, one couple making out in a sealed laboratory. The gas has now dissipated. I don't know why the British made a movie with an American as the hero. They're joined by a young couple fleeing to Liverpool in a stolen Vauxhall.
They break into an armory and hand out Webley revolvers, but only to the men. They gave a gun to an alcoholic who didn't know how it worked, but wouldn't give one to a woman.
Had an MGB, a Land Rover and the Vauxhall I'd have never recognized.
Black and white. 62 minutes. Available on Pub-D-Hub.
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