Last Woman on Earth: Betsy Jones-Moreland, Antony Carbone, Robert Towne (1960 Movie)

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Last Woman on Earth (1960) is an American science-fiction film produced and directed by Roger Corman. It tells the story of three survivors of a mysterious apocalypse which appears to have wiped out all human life on earth. The screenplay is by Robert Towne, who also appears in the film billed as "Edward Wain". The music was composed and conducted by Ronald Stein.

Towne is the author of many notable film scripts, including Chinatown (1974), for which he received an Academy Award, plus its sequel, The Two Jakes (1990), and Oscar-nominated screenplays The Last Detail and Shampoo as well as the first two Mission Impossible films. Towne has also a "stellar reputation" in the motion-picture industry as an uncredited script doctor, who has worked in such a capacity for The Godfather, Bonnie and Clyde, The Parallax View, The Rock and dozens of other Hollywood films.

After working for years on a script of Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) he grew dissatisfied with the production and credited his dog, P.H. Vazak, with the script. Vazak became the first dog nominated for an Oscar for screenwriting, but he did not fetch the award. Towne co-wrote the film 8 Million Ways to Die using the alias David Lee Henry.

Towne also wrote and directed Personal Best (1982), a fictional drama of female track-and-field athletes, and Without Limits (1998), a biopic based on the life of distance runner Steve Prefontaine. His crime story Tequila Sunrise (1988) co-starred Mel Gibson as a reformed cocaine dealer and Kurt Russell as a detective, with Michelle Pfeiffer as a woman who becomes romantically involved with both. Towne told The New York Times that Tequila Sunrise is "a movie about the use and abuse of friendship."

On occasion, he has acted on screen, as in 1960's Roger Corman sci-fi film Last Woman on Earth, which Towne also wrote. He also starred in another Corman film, Creature From the Haunted Sea.

Betsy Jones-Moreland (April 1, 1930 -- May 1, 2006) was an American actress.

She was born as Mary Elizabeth Jones in Brooklyn, New York, and began her career in small roles in the mid-1950s, appearing in several Roger Corman films, including a lead role in Last Woman on Earth (1960). Subsequently she appeared mostly on television through 1975.

She guest-starred in an episode of the television series Ironside starring Raymond Burr, and in the early 1990s appeared in a recurring role as a judge in a series of his Perry Mason television films. In Have Gun - Will Travel, Ms. Jones-Moreland guest-starred as "Topaz", a saloon hostess who befriended Paladin in the episode "Brother"s Keeper" that aired May 6, 1961.

She died in El Monte, California from cancer at age 76.

Antony Carbone (born 1927 in Calabria, Italy) is an American film and television actor.

His family moved to Syracuse, New York when he was a young boy, then relocated to Los Angeles, California. After graduating from Los Angeles State College, he moved to New York City to study drama with Harold Clurman and Eva Le Galliene. He started his professional acting career in small parts in various Broadway productions before moving into film and television. Carbone is probably best known for his supporting roles in several low budget Roger Corman horror films of the late 1950s and early 1960s, including A Bucket of Blood (1959), Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961) and The Pit and the Pendulum (1961). Since the mid-1980s he has been a stage director in Los Angeles. He was sometimes credited as Anthony Carbone and Tony Carbone.

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[kumagareman]

manko

[TheOneTrueKaliban]

A STINGRAY! Aw, CRIKEY!

[TheOneTrueKaliban]

I kept expecting the creature from the black lagoon to show up during the underwater scenes!

[grendel963]

1:05, There's a whole marina full of boats. Why are they fighting over the one yacht?

[grendel963]

I'm mainly familiar w/ Robert Towne from his screen play for Chinatown (one of my favorite movies). It's interesting to see his earlier work.

[313pookie313]

love these old B movies :)  Thanks for making my afternoon :)