Logan's Run

MOVIE REVIEW OF Logan's Run (1976) PG

Cast
Director	Michael Anderson	Runtime: 1hrs 59min ( 119min)
logan	.....	michael york
francis	.....	richard jordan
jessica	.....	jenny agutter
box	.....	roscoe lee browne
holly	.....	farrah fawcett-majors
doc	.....	michael anderson jr.
old man	.....	peter ustinov
sanctuary man #1	.....	bob neill
sanctuary man #2	.....	randolph roberts
woman runner	.....	lara lindsay
billy	.....	gary morgan
mary 2	.....	Michelle Stacy
woman customer	.....	laura hippe
sandman	.....	david westberg
sanctuary woman	.....	camilla carr
cub	.....	gregg lewis
timid girl	.....	ashley cox
sandman	.....	bill couch
runner	.....	glen wilder

PLOT SUMMARY

Sometime in the 23^rd century...the survivors of great 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 advanced world everyone lives under domed cities. Life is supposed to be perfect. All provisions are supplied by an unseen caretaker. But life is too perfectly balanced and planned. At thirty years of age, people are eliminated under the propaganda that they will be reborn or renewed through a ceremony called carrousel. (pronounced carousel.) There is no sex involved in the creation of new life. It is brought on artificially in breeders by seed parents who never know each other's identities.

Even names have become generic. The child of Logan 5 (Michael York), for instance, is named Logan 6.

Logan 5 is what they call a Sandman. In this sense of the word, his job is to track down runners, people trying to escape the confines of the domed cities.

Logan becomes authorized to penetrate the seals of the city in order to find and destroy what is called sanctuary, a place believed to be a location where runners have congregated and become unaccounted for. In order to do this, Logan must risk his life by becoming a runner himself.

Logan reluctantly accepts the task (as if he has a choice) and discovers some things, about which he had already been questioning, along the way and at the end of his journey.

TECH INSPECTION

This movie is based on the novel Logan's Run by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson.

I am left wondering how it is that during Logan's first run, he and Jessica must navigate through a labyrinth of tunnels and caves in order to reach outside. Nevertheless, at the end, it's less than a hop, skip, and a jump to the same place.

At the very end of the movie when everyone is gathering around the old man, one person raises his hand above the crowd. Smack dab in the middle of the screen, he gives the Vulcan hand sign from Star Trek.

I saw this movie for the first time when I was about 7 years old on Night Owl Theater with Fritz the Night Owl, and have loved it ever since for different reasons as I got older.

This is one of those movies that gives kicks to those just looking for editing and script mistakes and faux pas in continuity. However, once you have been satiated in that respect, watch the movie again for entertainment value and you will be impressed.

Note the famous people in key roles such as Farrah Fawcett (credited as Farrah Fawcett-Majors, wife of Lee Majors at the time) and Peter Ustinov (Hercule Poirot in the Agatha Christie movies, Sparticus).

QUOTES
Finally, a short list of quotes I think are worth repeating. You may recognize some, but these are my own picks, not ones that are particularly famous:

• Just imagine what would happen to you if the healing stopped functioning. ~ Doc
• Must have been a savage world. ~ Jessica
• Fish, and plankton, and seagreens, and proteins from the sea... ~ Box
• Beloved husband. Beloved wife. I wonder what it means. ~ Jessica

Here is my personal rating of this movie. This rating is out of ten meows.
⁹ /₁₀

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