Gas-s-s-s

Gas-s-s-s

Infobox Film
name = Gas-S-S-S


caption =
director = Roger Corman
producer = Roger Corman
writer = George Armitage
narrator =
starring = Robert Corff Elaine Giftos George Armitage Alex Wilson
music = Country Joe & the Fish Barry Melton
cinematography = Ron Dexter
editing = George Van Noy
distributor = American International Pictures
released = 1971
runtime = 79 min.
country = USA
language = English
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id = 1:19277
imdb_id = 0065760

"Gas-s-s-s" (also known as "Gas! or It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It") was a 1971 motion picture produced and released by American International Pictures. It was producer Roger Corman's final film for AIP, before leaving to found his own New World Pictures. It was also his last film as director for eighteen years.

The movie is a post-apocalyptic dark comedy, about survivors of an accidental military gas leak, of an experimental agent that kills everyone on Earth over the age of twenty-five. (A cartoon title sequence shows a John Wayne-esque Army General announcing - and denouncing - the "accident"; the story picks up after the victims have died.)

The lead characters, Coel and Cilla, were played by Bob Corff and Elaine Giftos, and the cast also features Ben Vereen, Cindy Williams, Bud Cort and Talia Shire in early roles. Country Joe McDonald makes an appearance, as spokesman "AM Radio".

"Gas-s-s-s" found a fresh airing on late night television in the 1980s, and was recently (2005) issued on DVD, as a with "Wild in the Streets", another AIP movie.

ee also

"Jeremiah", based on a comic of the same name, that takes place in a post-apocalyptic future where most of the adult population has been wiped out by a deadly virus.

For a list of other films and TV series in which young people are the only survivors, see the notes at the end of the "Jeremiah" article.

External links

*imdb title|0065760

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