Logan's Run

 Logan’s Run 1976

• Director: Michael Anderson
• Seen by this director: The Wreck of the Mary Deare, Around the World in Eighty Days
• Based on the novel by Nolan and Johnson.
• Cast: Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Anderson Jr, Peter Ustinov
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Michael York – Cabaret, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, The Forsythe Saga
• Jenny Agutter – Queen of the Desert, Glorious 39, Love’s Labour’s Lost
• Richard Jordan – Dune, Klute
• Michael J Anderson – In Search of the Castaways
• Peter Ustinov – Lorenzo’s Oil, Billy Budd, Romanov and Juliet, Spartacus,
• Why? It seems it’s a kind of cult film?
• Seen: 12 November 2021      

       People now live in domed cities. Everything is perfect, including the system whereby you die at the age of thirty if you don’t succeed in reaching the top in the Carousel, an event that attracts crowds of enthusiastic spectators à la gladiators.

       Logan (Yorke) is a cop who gleefully chases and kills ‘runners’, those who try to escape the Carousel. Then he meets Jessica (Agutter), who represents the Sanctuary.

       It’s a colourful dystopia loaded with cool futuristic cityscapes and transport systems.

       The story is thin, and the dialog is stiff and amateurish but when the cats and the Old Man (Ustinov) enter the scene I fall for it. I become quite fond of it and visually it is simply stunning.

       Could it actually be 

4 * of 5?