Logan's Run
by Michael Anderson
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Actor: Farrah Fawcett, Jenny Agutter, Michael York, Richard Jordan, Roscoe Lee BrowneDirector: Michael Anderson
Cinematographer: Ernest Laszlo
Editor: Bob Wyman
Producer: Hugh Benson
Producer: Saul David
Writer: David Zelag Goodman
Writer: George Clayton Johnson
Writer: William F. Nolan
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 119 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-09-29
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Warner)
Summary of Logan's Run
If you can stifle the urge to laugh at its pastel unisex costumes and futuristic shopping-mall décor, this extravagant science fiction film from 1976 is still visually fascinating and provocatively entertaining. Set in the year 2274, when ecological disaster has driven civilization to the protection of domed cities, the story revolves around a society that holds a ceremonial death ritual for all citizens who reach the age of 30. In a diseaseless city where free sex is encouraged and old age is virtually unknown, Logan (Michael York) is a "sandman," one who enforces this radical method of population control (but he's about to turn 30 and he doesn't want to die). Escaping from the domed city via a network of underground passages, Logan is joined by another "runner" named Jessica (Jenny Agutter), while his former sandman partner (Richard Jordan) is determined to terminate Logan's rebellion. Using a variety of splendid matte paintings and miniatures, Logan's Run earned a special Oscar for visual effects (images of a long-abandoned Washington, D.C., are particularly impressive), and in addition to fine performances by Jordan and Peter Ustinov, the film features '70s poster babe Farrah Fawcett in a cheesy supporting role. Jerry Goldsmith's semi-electronic score is still one of the prolific composer's best, and Logan's Run remains an interesting example of '70s sci-fi that preceded Star Wars by less than a year. --Jeff ShannonSimilar DVD Movies
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