It's Great to Be Alive

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name = It's Great to Be Alive


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director = Alfred L. Werker
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writer = Arthur Kober, Paul Perez
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starring = Raul Roulien, Gloria Stuart, Edna May Oliver, Herbert Mundin, Joan Marsh
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cinematography = Robert Planck
editing = Barney Wolf
distributor = 20th Century Fox
released = 1933
runtime = 69 min.
country = USA
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amg_id = 1:96940
imdb_id = 0024189

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

ynopsis

A young aviator name Carlos Martin (played by Raul Roulien) is dumped by his girlfriend (Gloria Stuart), 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 global epidemic 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.

One scene in this film depicts look-a-likes of the two top scientists of the era, Albert Einstein and Auguste Piccard, trying to find a cure for "masculitis". Another scene portrays a burlesque show dubbed "Girls of all Nations". Other cast members include Edna May Oliver, Joan Marsh, Edward Van Sloan and Peaches Jackson.

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