The Omega Man

The Omega Man (1971)

Timing: 1:38 (98 min)

6.167/10
521

6.039/10
1967

6.4/10
36000

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Photo 27

Actors and characters

Release date

1971-08-01

Country

United States

Production

Walter Seltzer Productions

Genre

Science Fiction, Action, Horror

Budget

$0

Revenue

$8 720 000

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Director

Boris Sagal

Actors

Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash, Paul Koslo, Eric Laneuville, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Anna Aries, Brian Tochi, DeVeren Bookwalter, John Dierkes
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Scenario

Producer

Walter Seltzer

Operator

Russell Metty

Composer

Ron Grainer

Artist

Audition

Jack Roberts

Editing

William H. Ziegler
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• The filmmakers wanted to shoot in a location that looked like an abandoned town, but building sets would have been too troublesome and expensive. One day, film producer Walter Zelzer (1914-2011) drove through the business district of Los Angeles on his day off and noticed that the streets were completely empty, so they filmed in the appropriate setting on weekends there.
• This prompted the screenwriters, John William Corrington (1932-1988), Joyce Hooper Corrington, and Richard Matheson (1926-2013), to come up with the idea of making the friend of the main character, played by Charlton Heston (1923-2008), an African American woman, Rosalind Cash (1939-1995). It was the 1970s, and interracial relationships were not yet so common, but the screenwriters decided that in a world where humanity was almost destroyed, racism would already be a thing of the past.
• The filmmakers wanted to shoot in a location that looked like an abandoned town, but building sets would have been too troublesome and expensive. One day, the film’s producer Walter Zelzer drove through the business district of Los Angeles on a day off and noticed that the streets were completely empty, so they filmed scenes in the appropriate setting on weekends there.
• The idea to cast Rosaline Cash, an African American actress, as the friend of the main character played by Charlton Heston came to the scriptwriters John William Corrington, Joyce Hooper Corrington, and Richard Matheson. Interracial relationships were not yet widespread, but the scriptwriters decided that in a world where humanity was almost destroyed, racism would already be a thing of the past.