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No Blade of Grass
Cornel Wilde; US/UK 1970; Warner On-Demand/Region 1 DVD; 95 minutes; Aspect Ratio 2.35:1
Film: A beefcake Hungarian- American contract player for Fox from the t940S through the mid-5os, Cornel Wilde finally went freelance with his own Theodora Productions. Its output included Joseph H. Lewis's The Big Combo and Wilde's own directorial outings, which began with 1955's Storm Fear and gradually ratcheted up the art-brut bedlam until this apotheosis, a loose adaptation of John Christopher's apocalyptic novel (more recently a Radio s, serial).
"By the beginning of the 70s, man had brought the destruction of his environment close to the point of no return,"...