It's Great to Be Alive (film)

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Directed byAlfred L. Werker
Based on"The Last Man on Earth"
1923 novelette in Munsey's Magazine
by John D. Swain
It's Great to Be Alive
Directed byAlfred L. Werker
Written byArthur Kober
Paul Perez
Based on"The Last Man on Earth"
1923 novelette in Munsey's Magazine
by John D. Swain
StarringRaul Roulien
Gloria Stuart
Edna May Oliver
Herbert Mundin
Joan Marsh
CinematographyRobert H. Planck
Edited byBarney Wolf
Distributed byFox Film Corporation
Release date
  • July 8, 1933 (1933-07-08)
Running time
69 minutes
CountryUnited States

It's Great to Be Alive (1933) is an American Pre-Code science fiction musical comedy film produced by Fox Film Corporation, is a remake of The Last Man on Earth (1924), and later influenced the novel Mr. Adam (1946) by Pat Frank.

A young aviator, Carlos Martin, is dumped by his girlfriend, and heads on a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean. He has engine trouble and makes an emergency landing on an uninhabited island out in the Pacific. Shortly afterward, a pandemic of a new disease called "masculitis" kills every fertile male human on the planet. When efforts to cure the disease fail, the human race is doomed. Humanity's institutions are all run by women, including the Chicago underworld. Carlos escapes the island, and once he returns home and hears the news, it now depends on him to continue the human race.

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