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The Omega Man
Release Date	August 1, 1971
Genre	Sci Fi, Post-Apocalypse
Director	Boris Sagal
Screenwriter	John William Corrington Joyce Hooper Corrington Richard Matheson (novel)
Stars	Charlton Heston Anthony Zerbe Rosalind Cash Paul Koslo
Studio	Warner Bros. Pictures

The Omega Man is a 1971 film adaptation of the Richard Matheson novel I Am Legend directed by Boris Sagal. Charlton Heston stars as Dr. Robert Neville, the only survivor of a war waged with biological weapons. A plague has wiped out humanity except for mutated nocturnal and homicidal humans who call themselves The Family. Believing Neville to be a part of the establishment responsible for the destruction, they have decided he must die.