
The Last Man on Earth is a 1924 silent comedy film set in the a world where, by the year 1950 (when the film takes place) all fertile men over the age of 14 have been killed by a plague known as Masculitis leaving a world taken over by woman and Humanity wondering how it will survive as no cure has been found, and thus all men of the young generation are expected to perish. Hope comes in the form of one Elmer Smith, a hill billy in the United States who is immune to the plague- while woman from all over the world flock to him to procreate a few individuals seek to learn the reason for his immunity at a hospital he's taken to upon being discovered as the Last Man on Earth.