LOGAN'S RUN (1976) MOVIE REACTION! FIRST TIME WATCHING!
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The film was directed by Michael Anderson and based on William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson novel Logan's Run. Logan's Run stars Michael York as Logan, Jenny Agutter as Jessica, Roscoe Lee Browne as Box, Richard Jordan as Francis, Michael Anderson Jr. as Doc, Farrah Fawcett as Holly, Peter Ustinov as Old Man and Gary Morgan as Billy.
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I always use this film as an example of how much Star Wars changed the look of Sci Fi/Sci Fantasy. This came out one year before Star Wars, and it's a good representation of what pre-Star Wars Sci Fi films (except 2001) looked like.
In terms of looks for movies set in the future the real watershed was not Star Wars but Blade Runner. That is the movie that created a clear divide in SF film aestetics.
@WVR Spence (WestVirginiaRebel) a really interesting fact is that the apocalyptic Damnation Alley was released by 20th Century Fox the same year as Star Wars and was supposed to be the summer blockbuster.
I'm actually named after this story lol. Very interesting bit of film history
2001 a Space Odyssey came almost an entire decade before freaking Star Wars. People forget THAT's the flick that TRULY pioneered what we know as the modern sci movie.
Much of what the old man says about cats is from T.S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats", the book that was used as the basis for the musical "Cats".
Yup
The first time I watched this movie "start to finish" was the day before my wife's 30th birthday. She seemed to enjoy the movie and didn't get too angry about the obvious joke I played on her by choosing that movie that day.
The first time I saw this move I thought 30 was pretty old (I think I was 12 or 13). Last Thursday I celebrated my 52nd birthday! My *YOUNGER* sister's kid is 31! WTF man!
The old man is played by British actor Peter Ustinov. The budget for Logan's run was between $7-8 million, Jen. The producers managed to save $3 million by filming most of the movie in Dallas.
Yep the buildings and the water fountains are places still around in the Dallas area.
Logan's Run was indeed based on a novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, Jen. 🙂Although in the book, a person's death date was 21 years of age, not 30.
Their plans and efforts make a lot more sense for younger people than for those a bit more mature...at the time I first saw this, I was young myself, so saw little inconsistency. Looking back, they are often acting as very inexperienced people.
The reason the age had to be changed is because they couldn't find enough actors without legal casting issues.
Despite its low budget, it won or should I say, tied the Oscar for Best Visual Effects with King Kong 1976.
Also Happy New Year and RIP Betty White.
That’s amazing! I have seen King Kong 😬 Happy New Year to you! 🎉 I know so sad to hear 😭
This is definitely a classic. It spawned a TV series of the same name but with different actors. The actor playing Logan, Michael York, has had a long and distinguished career. I first saw him in The Three Musketeers (1973). He was also in the Austin Powers movies.
Another notable role for Michael York was Tybalt in Zefferelli's Romeo and Juliet.. it's a beautiful film, I highly reccommend it for somebody to react to...
I hope that : Soylent Green (1973), is on your watch list very soon.
I saw this movie when I was 10 . I thought the sandman’s gun was the coolest thing . When it first came out on VHS years later I realized Jenny Agutter
Was the coolest thing in the movie . Very good review .
Same deal with An American Werewolf in London... Or indeed any film with Jenny Agutter in it.
Guys I totally agree...about both the gun and Jenny Agutter (& An American Werewolf in London) 😉😊
I remember seeing an ad in a contemporary sci-fi magazine (Starlog?) for a functional prop Sandman gun that used butane cartridges for the flame effects. And it was expensive.
I had that same experience watching Gilligan's Island.🤣 As a kid I was most impressed with Gilligan since he was like a big kid which made him more relatable to me. Then, years later after puberty hit and I was watching the reruns, I realized that show was really all about Mary Ann.😍Funny how that works!😋 But yeah, Jenny is one of the most beautiful creatures in history! Also thought Anne Lockhart from Battlestar Galactica was gorgeous. Her and her mother June had to be the most beautiful mother/daughter duo of all time!
According to York the guns didn't always work, there was no special effects used they really did fire those flames, they worked on small gas cylinders.
This is the first movie I saw that showed how rapidly nature would recapture civilization. I gotta say, the wildlife invading our cities during the relatively short covid lockdown reminded me of Logan's run. I don't know if you have seen Babylon 5, but Michael York is at his best in one of the episodes - A Late Delivery From Avalon. - with a username like mine, could I be biased? "Yes" lol
Babylon 5 was great, loved seeing Walter Koenig as Bester.
The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
Jenny Augutter is currently acting as the head Nun on Call the Midwife. Her earlier fame, was in the Australian film Walkabout, in 1971. She is also notable for being the Nurse in American Werewolf in London.
She was good as the foster mom in Child's Play 2 & she also had a bit part as the doctor in Sam Rami's: Darkman.
One other very high profile role for Ms. Agutter was in the MCU. She was a high ranking politician in “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” (and very briefly in a couple other films). She was the one who was eventually revealed to be Black Widow in disguise.
She was also in the tv series Spooks.
@@scottstevens7639 It's cool that her short action sequence in "Winter Soldier" as Black Widow in disguise meant she still had a good physique for her age.
I remember from the book that after the apocalypse, a computer system was put in charge of the civilization and it calculated that cellular decay started at 20, so logically all physical problems must start at that point. So if it didn't let the population age past that point then it could maintain a healthy society in perpetuity. In the movie, of course, they upped the age to 30. (Which does seem logical in my opinion.)
I believe most of the film was shot on soundstages, but the waterfall fountain scenes at the end were definitely shot on location in a park in Texas. The cityscape scenes were definitely a model.
The people in the dome were told they were being "renewed" in carousel, so they didn't know they were being killed.
Francis 7 is played by Richard Jordan, who played Duncan Idaho in the original 1984 version of Dune, Jen. 🙂
Loved this movie for years - and I had watched it multiple times before I realized each person is dressed in the colour of their hand crystal. A person who's palm is still green dresses in green, etc. That's why all the runners are in red: their clock has run out.
Wow I never knew that. Thanks for sharing.
Logan's Run was based on the 1967 novel of the same name written by William F. Nolan and George Clayton. In the novel, society requires the death of the individual by age 21, not 30.
At the time actress Farrah Fawcett was married to actor Lee Majors, best known as Colonel Steve Austin from the 1970s sci-fi/superhero TV series The Six Million Dollar Man (on which she guest-starred repeatedly), and who subsequently starred in the TV series The Fall Guy.
Those cylinders of film you see rotating with Logan's head are actual 3D holographs, images recorded on film with a laser, the first use of such in a theatrical feature film.
Gorgeous matte paintings in this. Love the scene with the overgrown ivy everywhere.
Yes! I love the Matte Paintings, so cool! Thanks for watching!
Of course that futuristic city set was all miniatures, Jen. 😆They weren't using CGI back then.
I was 9 years old when this came out and it blew my mind. Jenny Agutter might be one of the most beautiful women who have ever lived. Happy New Year Jen!!!
She’s amazing! Happy New Year to you too! 🎉
I guess the old man, played beautifully by Peter Ustinov here, was the sole kid of two runners who made it 70 years ago or so. Decendants of house cats are possibly still all over the ruins, since cats can pretty much feed themselves if push comes to shove, so no wonder Washington has them.
You might enjoy the Andromeda strain. Silent running is a good one as well. Really like your channel.
The novel is a surprisingly short book, but it does have a much more elaborate sequence during their escape with more robots rather than just Box in the film. Also the age limit is much lower: only 21! There was a tv series that continued Logan and Jessica's exploration of Outside along with an android, in which they encountered different groups of humans in various societies - although still being pursued by sandmen. In a different continuity, the novel has two follow ups: 'Logan's World' in which he is on a quest to find life saving medicine for his son retuning to Earth from a space station and going back to the ruined dome. The other I can't tell you about as I don't have that one (both are pretty rare). The music was by Sci-Fi score legend Jerry Goldsmith and fun fact: parts of the dome interior where shot at a newly built shopping mall. At the time pre Star Wars, Logan's Run was the biggest Sci-Fi craze since Planet of the Apes. Aside from the books and a comic series there was a lot less merch than other film franchises although the themes were more adult orientated so maybe because it was less kid friendly... nice review btw 😃
You need to reread Logan's Run. There's no dome. The entire world is populated by young people overseen by the Thinker, a computer built prior the Little War. But Thinker is slowly breaking down, creating places that it no longer monitored. Ballard, the founder of Sanctuary whose defective palm crystal never changed to Lastday, realized that these "dead zones" were the perfect stages on the "underground railroad" ending at Canaveral, where a ship waited to take Runners to Sanctuary.
Box was a cyborg who was dumped in the Antarctic penal colony, where he went insane.
The only other robots I can think of are the caregivers in Nursery.
This was filmed in Fort Worth, Texas, I believe at a department store, or shopping mall that hadn't opened yet. The water fountains are were filmed at a water garden there. Michael York kept the robe, and still has it to this day.
Yes Logan's run is a book. Three short books actually. Logan's Run, Logan's Search, and Logan's World.
The rotating animated head of Michael York in the "surrogation" scene was a real 3D hologram. I've seen similar ones in science museums.
This is my favorite movie, and I'm glad you enjoyed it. Take this as a compliment, I got so hot listening to your commentary , you do an excellent review and observations. Thank you! Robert
I've got this on DVD. It's a very interesting movie. Farrah Fawcett was married to Lee Majors (TV's Six Million Dollar Man). Michael York, our main sandman, has appeared in 163 movies. He was also in the 1977 sci-fi movie The Island of Dr Moreau. Would love your reaction to the 1978 film Coma. Directed by Michael Crichton, based on the Robin Cook novel. It features Michael Douglas, Genevieve Bujold and Richard Widmark. Thanks for the hard work and happy new year.
Coma is a fine movie. I haven't read the novel, though.
I think my favorite of Micheal York is "The Three Musketeers" (1973-4)!
@@jean-paulaudette9246 Yes, those are very good too.
I believe the female actress was in the movie "An American Werewolf in London".
As well as an uncredited role in Sam Raimis DARKMAN...as a nurse. Most recently in some of the Marvel movies (Winter Soldier being the first.)
I saw this when released. The movie went through many re-writes and differs from the book it was based on, so I'll give my interpretation of the story of the movie.
This facility was designed and built as closed ecosystem that would be self-sufficient and capable of supporting a new society. It was powered by the tides of the ocean, and farmed and processed fish and other seafood to feed the residents. The freezer facility was to balance the variations in food production to store excess to be used in leaner times. It had an initial limit to the population it could support, and people could leave or the facility could expand. Its mission evolved from a separate planned society to that of a lifeboat/ark for humanity. It had initially only a small sample of humans who chose to join with no regards to genetic diversity - only with those who came together and were willing to leave normal society behind and build a new one. The facility started at a certain capability, and may then have been expanded as the initial population grew.
The fall of civilization occurred due to any number of reasons - take your pick.
Without outside resources, the facility could not be expanded much more. The systems of the facility had an adaptation mechinism to adjust the population and parameters for it to survive until it was feasible for some residents to leave and survive outside it and possible expand the facility as civliztion rebuilds.
However, whatever occurred lasted a lot longer than the system creators ever planned for. Maybe radiation, maybe chemical contamination. It lasted longer than the system could handle, and the system could not detect when it would be safe again.
Over those thousands of years, the system's adjustments became more harsh. The population had maybe grown from a fairly small number to approach the capacity of the facility. Reproduction suppression became insufficient. A maximum age was implemented, maybe initially at an old age, e.g. 70. Over the years the age was lowered and lowered. The reproduction suppression was increased. Adjustments to the rules of the society were adjusted to handle the necessary changes, and included handling of resistance to the rules. Eventually, the society reached a point where the population could be sustained. The society could repair most things, but the basic facility-wide systems began degrading. Maybe the nutrients from the ocean could no longer support the fish farming. More adjustments for the survival of the society were needed. That included a reduction in population, and using those reduced to supplement the fertilizer/food production. What was in the freezer was no longer fish, but human flesh. The facility and its systems were not initially designed to handle the changes, so it became less and less capable in keeping up with supporting the population. Maybe the different systems were not coordinated so each was doing its adjustments and not specifically aware of the others.
The population that could be supported continued to be reduced. The society-controlling system probably was searching for answers, inclulding why the numbers were not balancing-out. For people to leave and survive it couldn't be due to desire, the possiblity, or just hope. It had to be a high threshold that the systems were not aware of that possiblity - except maybe some hidden process that was triggered that caused some kind of self-destruction of the authoritative system. This left the population free to form a new society with new rules, including leaving the facility.
I would think that the basic facility was not destroyed, and could be used as a base to then expand the new society and new facilities.
The poems the old man in Washington was reciting is from T.S. Eliot, which poems were used in the musical stage play Cats (NOT the movie. actually idk if they put all that in the movie. I didn't make it ten minutes into that garbage. the play itself started in 1981 and was released on VHS in 1998 and was absolutely brilliant)
Michael York, who plays Logan, was also in the Austin Powers movies, Jen. He played Basil Exposition with British Secret Service. He was also D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers.
he was in The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977) also starring Burt Lancaster
…and he was Mercutio in Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet. A great Shakespearean actor in his day.
@@w1975b Thanks for reminding me. I forgot about The Island of Dr. Moreau.
@@ronbock8291
Close, but not in the gold. His character in that one was actually Tybalt. In Zeffirelli's previous Shakespeare film, 1967's *The Taming of the Shrew,* York played the secondary role of Lucentio, suitor to Kate's sister Bianca. They did want him to play Romeo in the next film; I can't recall exactly why the role-change, but I think York himself requested it because it was much more dynamic and charismatic. (If that's the case, I can't say I blame him; heroes are great, but a story is only as good as its villain, and Shakespeare gave us some of the very best. Besides, Leonard Whiting did seem to fit the image of "sensitive boy deep in love" more believably, where York's more angular features would seem to work against it.) 😎
@@goldenager59 yeah, if I’d paused for a second I would’ve remembered that. Olivia Hussey was one of my very earliest screen crushes, that movie made a huge impression on me when I was young. Taming of the Shrew I saw later and didn’t really like it, Burton was good in it, as was Cyril Cusack, who I love, but Liz Taylor wrecks it for me.
Enjoyed your viewing very much! I believe this was Farrah's film debut, so she wasn't a big name yet. It wasn't stated, but I think all the people frozen in storage by the robot were all of the unaccounted-for runners the computer had Logan searching for...my theory, anyway. Loved this film when it came out, though not all of the effects have aged well. :)
A lot of people don't realize that "Logan's Run" spelled backward is "Nur Snagol."
Ssshhh! Do you want to upset the fabric of our society?!
If you say five times in front of a mirror an old man with a bunch of cats shows up to your house. 🤪
You cracked the code!!!😁
It was well publicized at the time that this marked the first time actual holograms in a feature film.
The interior of the domed cities was a HUGE miniature that too up an entire soundstage. It was actually beautifully detailed but the cinematography did it no favors!
It was originally much longer and more adult, but was re-edited to be shorter and less erotic. The editors took out a LOT of The Love Shop scene. All the cuts are missing so there'll never be an expanded cut...
This, to me, is one of composer Jerry Goldsmith's finest scores, combining electronics and orchestral music to spectacular effect!
The domed city miniature really does look fantasic to me, especially with the monorail-type transport whizzing around. I've never been a small scale train enthusiast but I'd love to make a futuristic version that looked like Logan's Run.
I agree with you about Jerry Goldsmith's score. I think my favourite work of his is for Capricorn One (1977).
@@TerryNationB7 that score for Capricorn One is phenomenal! The stark opening credits and Goldsmith's epic title track pretty much blew me out of the back of the theater. I think he did his best work in the 70's!
At the time the movie Logan's Run was made, the carousel stunts and special effects were the most technical and expensive stunts/special effects ever done in a movie.
The concept of this movie was way more complex than Star Wars ~ but star wars overshadowed it because, well ~ people are gung ho for bang bang shoot em up save the princess from the spooky dude in black stuff. The female computer in Logan's Run is *FAR MORE DISTURBING* than some dude in a black cape called Darth Vader.
Considering how everything is being remade these days I am shocked that this has never been remade.
Right? I was definitely expecting a remake too
@@ReelReviewsWithJen There has been talk of a remake since the early 2000s. For a long time the writer behind the Bioshock games, Ken Levine, was attached to the script. Last I heard he departed the project around 2015.
"Logan's Run." Only the greatest motion picture ever made!
I’m gonna guess that I’m one of the few that have read the book… this movie was huge for me when it came out, I was 12, and read and reread the book several time, saw the movie probably 10 time in the theatre. The book is quite different, particularly the ending.
I love the book, and how they used concepts in the book but modified them for a movie format. They both stand on their own and are wonderful works of Sci Fi.
"A boy and his dog" 1975 ;)
Richard Jordan, Duncan in Dune, MJ Fox's rich uncle in Secret of my Success, Dirk Pitt in Raise the Titanic, and Secretary of Defense in Hunt for Red October. General Armistead in Gettysburg. Great actor.
The book is well worth reading. The book’s narrative is followed only loosely in the movie ... and the ending is COMPLETELY different.
There is actually a trilogy of Logan books-Logan’s World,and another whose name eludes me at this time-but only Logan’s Run was made into a movie.When I clicked on this to watch it,an ad for THX-1138 came up and I thought “Hey,Jen likes science-fiction and this movie is historically important since it was made by George Lucas before he made Star Wars.Maybe she’d like to review it.”Interested?It has that 70s science fiction movie aesthetic if you like that.Also,thanks for reviewing Logan’s Run,for always having a new video to help keep me from going out of my head(Covid cases at my nursing home are increasing rapidly,so I’m getting a little panicky),and for your channel in general.Happy New Year.
The best review I've seen for THX-1138 is, and I quote, "It's like watching WHITE paint dry."
@@ericjanssen394 that’s clever and funny.I would say it’s a bit better than that though,at least on a visual level(excluding,of course,the scene where the main characters are moved into a white space).
The movie was based on a book written in the 60s. It was rather different, with the termination age being 21. After the movie, there were two sequel novels, Logan’s World and Logan’s Search. Both are good reads, if you can find them on eBay. The city scenes were filmed at a mall in Texas.
The exit/entrance pool of water is a real location and some people actually drowned in it. I think it was changed so it's not as deep now, although people can drown in just a few inches of water. Fort Worth Water Gardens.
Outside the dome, cats have three names, breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
This is a classic, and has some interesting sci-fi ideas at its core. It's based on a novel, which spawned two book sequels. The movie didn't get one for whatever reason. (Maybe poor reception at the time?) It certainly achieved cult status later on. Yes, It's pretty iconic for the period with great sets and characters. Several of the actors were either known already or went onto long careers after. There was a short lived Logan's Run TV series later in the 70's, that continued Logan's adventures in another format. One thing that this film inspired was a number of children named "Logan" borne of fans of the film. (I know one, hehe)
Fish, plankton, sea greens! Protein from the sea!
This is one of my classic sci-fi favorites. I grew up watching this. Michael York (Logan) is a great British actor. He's been in a number of movies and TV shows.
I can't believe no one has mentioned that most of the interiors of the dome were filmed at the Dallas Market Center mall. I saw Logan'r Run in the theater when it was new. It seemed a little cheesy in parts, even then, but we were just happy that someone had made a new large-scale sci-fi movie. Here is on of several "making of" videos: th-cam.com/video/-Eniz-ft5gQ/w-d-xo.html
I think that water fountain is in Fort Worth also
I liked how you called certain scenes spicy that was our pg back in those days.
Great movie always enjoyed watching, thanks again for sharing your thoughts and reaction
Jenny Agutter, who played Jessica-6, also appeared in films like Child's Play 2, and she was a member of the Council in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The Carousel sequence is exclusive to the movie. Basically, whoever makes it to the top, gets a shot at Renewal (Rebirth, if you will). In the novel, you report to a place called a Sleepshop, which is essentially a gas chamber.
My understanding of sanctuary was that the robot ran out of fish to freeze so he started freezing runners instead so there was no sanctuary
Yikes that’s terrifying 😬
its all protein.. spare food bank
Yes. The implied cannibalism shook me as a kid
Carousel was done with people on wires that were suspended between 20 to 60 feet in the air.
Many got hurt from the wire rigs and the small explosive device placed on them.
The movie is based on the first of 3 books.
And the stunt people got all tangled up the first time they tried to use it.
Jenny Aggutar most famously played the eldest daughter in "The Railway Children"
This was the first big-budget si-fi movie by a major studio. It was a gamble based on science fiction shows like STAR TREK and TWILIGHT ZONE being popular on television as well as the popularity of science fiction literature. It paid off and its success enabled STAR WARS being put into production and released the following year and that was such a success it overshadowed this movie which is why few people have heard of it today.
Cheese & Rice Indeed, Cool Reaction As Always Jen, You Have A Happy New Year Sweetie 🥰
Thank you so much! You too! 🎉
Jenny Agutter, Nurse Alex Price in 'An Amercan Werewolf in London'. Currently appears on tv's 'Call the Midwife'. Happy New Year Jen.🥳
Jenny Agutter! Be still, my heart!
Oh man! Yes I remember her now! I haven’t seen Call The Midwife but I loved American Werewolf in London!
@@ReelReviewsWithJen She also plays Councilwoman Hawley in the Marvel cinematic universe. Black widow used her face as a disguise and kicked some ass in Captain America: winter soldier.
@@craigvancil4410 That was such a wonderful cameo. I still think it would have been better if it turned out the Councilwoman was a straight as$-kicker, rather than the Romanoff reveal, but there ya go.
I commented the same thing about AAWiL before seeing your comment.
Farrah Fawcett was married to actor Lee Majors in the 70's. He was famous for starring in the TV series "The Six Million Dollar Man", an iconic sci-fi property in and of itself, based on the novel "Cyborg". And later he starred in a show called "The Fall Guy" about a stuntman.
Logan's Run was the first film to use Dolby Stereo on 70 mm prints. Nine entire sound stages were used at MGM in Culver City, California, hosting a miniature city among the largest of its kind built to date. Most everything else was was filmed in Dallas, Texas, including the Apparel Mart at Dallas Market Center (The Great Hall), Oz Restaurant and Nightclub (The Love Shop) and Pegasus Place (Sandman headquarters), the Fort Worth Water Gardens, and the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Houston. The Sewage Disposal Plant in El Segundo, California was used for the underground escape sequences.
The Fort Worth Water Gardens, the place used e.g. in the very last scene, had been built just in the year before filming there, so when the film was released most people wouldn´t be able to recognize the modern/futuristic monument either.
@@Fred_L. Robocop was also filmed in the Dallas/Fort Worth area for the same reason.
"An old man. All frozen. There is nooooo sanctuaryyyyy . . ." :D
You know, the Sylvester Judge Dredd film along with the 2012 Dredd film make Logan's Run look like a beach people show.
I love the look of Logan's Run, from the clothing colours based on age (and occasionally profession) to the look of the domed city, plus the voice of the computer. They made so many sci-fi movies in the 1970s that had interesting ideas behind them though many feel so very 70s in their look/sound (I'm thinking of Soylent Green (1973), Silent Running (1972) along with Logan's Run). I'm usually not a fan of remaking movies but sometimes I'm in favour of it.
And Zardoz.
Personally, I hold *Logan's Run* to be a prime example of seeing a good movie version first and reading an even better novel afterwards. The details that Nolan and Johnson deck their future out in (like glass ornaments on a Christmas tree) in no way detract from the easy-to-follow text and headlong pace of the plot...and the stage is the whole world, not simply a single city and its surroundings. I've yearned for a worthy and faithful adaptation for many years now...perhaps this will be the decade we can all get to experience it. 😉
P.S. Nolan and Johnson's Dedication to their book takes up two whole pages in tribute to all the fiction that inspired them as youths, and reads like a Who's Who of pop culture in the 40's and 50's. It's almost worth buying the book just to read the list - a key to a black hole of dreams in the Internet age! 😃
There are two books, Logan's Run and a sequel, Logan's World. In Logan's World things get a lot more....Mad Max. The movie is a pretty faithful adaptation of the books, but there are obviously some creative choices the director made The old man was born outside the dome, but long after the fall of civilization. He was educated by his parents, so is pretty primitive. Sanctuary as rumored, doesn't exist. Michael York, who starred in this was a very popular leading man in this era. He played D'artagnon opposite Raquel Welch in the Three Musketeers and Four Musketeers. He starred in the Island of Doctor Moreau and a few more.
There is a 3rd book. Logan’s search
ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES EVER MADE.... TOO MUCH TRUTH HERE....!!!!
I think this movie is prime for a remake along with “Soylent Green”, “The Andromeda Strain” and “Capricorn 1”.
they actually did a recent series remake of Andromeda Strain. Capricorn 1 was a great movie, though I suspect in the current "conspiracy climate" it would never get made. Hangar 18 or Saturn 5 (also with Farrah Fawcett) would be great for this channel
A remake has been In development hell for over 25 years now and would be closer to the original novel. Last I heard Bryan Singer was hired to direct but that was at least five years ago now
Thanks, Jen. Nobody's doing that one. I thought I was over Jenny Agutter, maybe one of my first movie-actor crushes. Just a couple tidbits... You may have noticed the appearance of the interior of the domes to a shopping mall, because it WAS a shopping mall. The score was done by one of the great film composers, Jerry Goldsmith. Matthew Yuricich was one of the great matte painters. One of the great old-time actors, Peter Ustinov, played the old man. He was not a second-rate B-movie actor. They tried to make something of quality. Unfortunately, at the time, as much as I wanted to be overwhelmed by the city, I wish they'd slowed down the water a bit because the waves gave the small size away...obviously a model. However, the model of the city WAS really neat. That was so much fun. I actually saw that in the movie theater when I was a kid, and the big screen helped it a lot.
Oh yes, Jenny Agutter. She was everything to me back then.
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This movie probably was the first movie I saw as a kid (or maybe The Road Warrior?) that made me so enamored by post apocalyptic settings in stories and films. I would love to see a remake of this, but I’d also be very afraid it would turn out horrible given the track record on most remakes.
The actor who played Logan is also the voice of Ares the God of War in an episode of Justice League Unlimited.
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the power couple of their day.. Farrah Fawcett and Lee Majors (aka the Six Million Dollar Man). Love this movie. Some great sf concepts explored. This is one movie worthy of a modern remake. There is a big dash of Brave New World thrown in here, not to mention early imgining of the internet and 'very social media' lol. You should look into Michael York's vast filmography. As a kid I became obsessed with the Ankh symbol after this, leading down the Egyptian rabbit hole. The Island certainyl gave off Logan's Run vibes in the first part before Michael Bay did what Michael Bay does
There is also a movie from the 70s called Parts:The Clonus Horror(or,alternately,simply The Clonus Horror) that Michael Bay’s The Island practically remakes.It,in my opinion,is worth seeing because it gets into some of the more thought-provoking aspects of the subject matter.Just expect a bit of 70s “cheese”(in parenthesis because I actually hate that term,though I’ll use it for the sake of being on the same page).
You could research these type of movies and see common patterns from Metropolis (1940’s) to the present. All these movies are based between the years 2030-2040. The dome is a huge symbol used in these movies to represent man’s world (Eden) vs Mother Nature (reality). There is also mention of two classes, the hidden and the masters (what we call elites). The hidden is us, the world population that works to support the system. The elites are the ones who created the system or run the system (ex: sandmen vs runners). Brave New World, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, The Prisoner (British tv show), Blade Runner, The Matrix, Dark City, Soylent Green, Demolition Man, etc. all show elements of these patterns.
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Classic novel. The author's name escapes me.
Logan is played by Michael York, the great British actor.
The bright reds and greens were worn according to where you were in age! Reds were 20 and up and greens were under 20. Saw this in the theater, I was a teenager!
Thats cool! I wonder if it’s like that in book, thanks for watching!
@@ReelReviewsWithJenNot really, no. A lot was invented for the movie to make it more spectacular.
Half the Sci Fi movie stories made today were based in this movie! The Island! Equals!🙏
I love this movie but I would love to see a remake of it, one that is more faithful to the book, specifically the age limit of 21. Ryan Gosling was supposedly going to be in a remake but it never got made.
Farrah Fawcett gives an amazing performance in _The Burning Bed._
Michael York (Logan), would go on to play Austin Powers' boss in the movie series.
I've been watching this movie since the late 70s and never put the tick tock sound of the Computer and time running out together. Kudos for seeing it in your first viewing Jen. 👍
I love this movie! I remember when it came out, some people loved it but a lot of people thought it was too weird. Have you seen THX 1138? It's another old school sci-fi movie with unusual sets and strange ideas about the future.
When I was a child I never saw this movie, but I did see the TV movie remake/pilot and series. It was so cool to me at the time, especially the sandman guns. I saw this movie a few years later and realise they couldn't show some of this stuff on tv, hence the tv movie remake. I always loved the relentless pursuit by Francis and his goons (in the series). Its interesting that in the movie there were no lasers for the guns, but there was for the cosmetic surgery machine. This was released a year before Star Wars. Imagine being 70 - 80 years old and having a a mob of hot young people wanting to touch you. LOL.
Michael York was also the star of the Oscar-winning Caberet. Worked into the 2000s. You might remember him as Austin Powers boss in those films.
This film budget originally for 5 million actually ballon to 9 million and this was the last big budget sci fi movie before Star Wars came out the following year which change science fiction movies forever. Those were miniatures and some scenes like the mall was shot in a actual mall in Dallas and the water fall where Logan Jessica and the old man was shot at Fort Worth. In the book the age is 21 and instead of a carousel they went to a place of euthanasia to put to death with gas. Jenny Agutter was also in the movie An American Werewolf in London (1981) playing a nurse. And Michael York was in this Mike Meyers’s Austin Power movies. Always enjoy your TH-cam videos. There was a short live tv series based on the movie on CBS network and lasted only 15 episodes back in 1977. And the old man parents could have runners and he supposed to be a 100 years old
What I find interesting is that this film and Star Wars were basically being produced at the same time, yet the quality of effects were so different from each other. One was cutting edge, and the other used more traditional methods of filming... one became a classic, and the other became a cult classic.
Yes, Farrah Fawcett was married to Lee Majors, The Six Million Dollar Man himself, when she starred in Logan's Run. 😆
Those spinning heads are what we called holograms in the 70s.
All the runners were caught by Box and frozen.
One of my favourite movies when I was a kid and it still is
23:15 I saw this movie as a kid, then later, I saw this fountain in real life. It was pretty cool actually.
I saw the movie when it was in theaters when I was 10. Part of the movie was filmed in the Fort Worth (Texas) Water Gardens. We would go there quite often as kids.
A lot of "Logan's Run" was filmed in Texas. Mainly Dallas and Fort Worth. The area where sea water was used to power the city was filmed at the Fort Worth Water Gardens.
There was a saying in the late '60's.... "Never trust anyone over 30."
During the end crowd scene when they surround Peter Ustinov someone in the crowd gives the Star Trek Vulcan salute.
Nice! I haven’t seen Star Trek but I know what that salute, thanks for watching!
OMG I'm so excited for you . I hope you enjoy it. It may not be great but it's pretty fun.
I really enjoyed it! I love sci-fi so this was perfect for me, thanks for watching!
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There was a short-lived tv series that followed the adventures of Logan after leaving the Dome.
Loved this movie when I was young. Knowing human nature from the last few years, folks would probably be "sure, we only lived to 30, but we lived in luxury and didn't work. You ruined everything Logan".
My husband and I still joke about going "on the circuit". lol
that robot was making runners into food
"Farrah Fawcett-Majors...she must have been married at this time." Yeah, she was married to Lee Majors, who played the Six Million Dollar Man. They were, essentially, the BenLo couple of the 70s.
A lot of this movie was filmed after hours at a mall in Arlington TX, the water set piece is in the Fort Worth Water Gardens
I've been known to reference "I hate outside!" on camping trips.
I saw this when I was 9 (I managed to sneak in); this is where sci-fi was going before Star Wars...This is basically humanity starting over from scratch. The budget was $7mill (in 1975-76 $$), and it brought in about $25mill. There were two books, IIRC, although there might be a third. There was no sequel, but they did try to do a TV show...stick to the movie. Originally, the maximum age was 21, and there were seven cities around the world (I think; it's been a VERY long time since I read it).
Children are "born" in artificial wombs; that's where Logan and Francis are at the opening, looking at the newborns. The clothes are all color-coded: Yellow is for children, Green for teens to very early 20's, and red are for c.24-30. The water feature is the Ft Worth, Texas Water Gardens; the non-backlot/sound stage sets are mostly the Dallas World Trade Center and the Ft Worth Galleria; Sandman Headquarters was the back side of the old Mobile Oil office tower near downtown Dallas
Massive movie hit in the UK when I was a kid! TV series was huge too! 👏🙏❤️