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Soylent Green
In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green.
1973 · Directed by Richard Fleischer · 97 min · Science Fiction · Crime · Mystery · 10 frames
Tagline
It's the year 2022. People are still the same. They'll do anything to get what they need. And they need Soylent Green.
Crew
- Screenplay: Stanley R. Greenberg
- Cinematography: Richard H. Kline
- Edited by: Samuel E. Beetley
- Music: Fred Myrow
- Produced by: Walter Seltzer, Russell Thacher
Cast
- Charlton Heston as Detective Robert Thorn
- Leigh Taylor-Young as Shirl
- Chuck Connors as Tab Fielding
- Joseph Cotten as William R. Simonson
- Brock Peters as Chief Hatcher
- Paula Kelly as Martha Phillips
- Edward G. Robinson as Sol Roth
- Stephen Young as Gilbert
- Mike Henry as Kulozik
- Lincoln Kilpatrick as The Priest
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, Spanish
- Studios: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Box office: $3,600,000
- Themes: based on novel or book, paranoia, dystopia, greenhouse effect, global warming, overpopulation, water shortage, cannibal, genocide, murder investigation
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