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Logan's Run
In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life's pleasures — but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens can try for a chance at being "renewed" in a civic ceremony on their 30th birthday. Escape is the only other option.
1976 · Directed by Michael Anderson · 118 min · Action · Science Fiction · Screenplay in the scene database · 10 frames
Tagline
Welcome to the 23rd century. The perfect world of total pleasure...there's just one catch.
Plot
Sometime in the 23rd century...the survivors of war, overpopulation and pollution are living in a great domed city, sealed away from the forgotten world outside. Here, in an ecologically balanced world, mankind lives only for pleasure, freed by the servo-mechanisms which provide everything.There's just one catch:Life must end at thirty unless reborn in the fiery ritual of carrousel.
In the year of the city 2274, the remnants of human civilization live in a sealed city beneath a cluster of geodesic domes, a utopia run by a computer. The citizens live a hedonistic lifestyle, but when they turn 30 must enter the "Carrousel", a public ritual that destroys their bodies, under the pretense they would be "Renewed" or reborn. Each person has embedded in their hand a "life-clock" crystal that changes color as they age, up to their "Last Day". Residents who attempt to flee the city are known as "Runners", and the team of huntsmen known as "Sandmen" are tasked with pursuing and terminating them.
Sandmen Logan 5 and Francis 7 attend a Carrousel ceremony until they are called to terminate a nearby Runner. Logan finds a pendant symbol among the Runner's possessions. That evening, Logan meets with Jessica 6, a young woman wearing the same symbol.
Plot summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Crew
- Screenplay: David Zelag Goodman
- Cinematography: Ernest Laszlo
- Edited by: Bob Wyman
- Music: Jerry Goldsmith
- Production design: Dale Hennesy
- Produced by: Saul David
Cast
- Michael York as Logan
- Richard Jordan as Francis
- Jenny Agutter as Jessica
- Roscoe Lee Browne as Box
- Farrah Fawcett as Holly
- Michael Anderson Jr. as Doc
- Peter Ustinov as Old Man
- Randolph Roberts as 2nd Sanctuary Man
- Lara Lindsay as The Woman Runner
- Gary Morgan as Billy
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Saul David Productions
- Budget: $9,000,000
- Box office: $25,000,000
- Themes: based on novel or book, escape, teleportation, killer robot, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, utopia, plastic surgery, distant future, fugitive
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