In the novel, there was different ammunition for different circumstances. For dispatching "runners", there was the "homer", which was a heat-seeking charge. It didn't tend to miss, so there wouldn't have been much shooting; just "BANG", then the runner dying. Not good for sci-fi action, so they changed the guns. (The guns' charges were an interesting study in the callousness of that society..."Tangler", "Ripper", "Nitro", "Needler", "Vapor", and "Homer"...)
1) To this day, I have a total *thing* for Jenny Agutter! When she popped up in the Captain America movie I cheered! 2) I was so-so on the book. The fact that no one raised the kids made it impossible for them to suddenly become all "peace and love" at 14. 3) I will pay for that deleted scene! :)
You didn't see the same movie if you think Sandmen were bad shots...they were playing with their prey... This gave them even more character as it showed their sadistic behavior, that they enjoyed it, before killing them !!!...RUN...RUNNER...!!! From the first encounter, they made a sick game of it! Another great Hero's Journey of a movie
I have always interpreted the early chase scene with the Sandmen and the runner as the Sandmen playing with the runner. They were not missing they were toying. I think you might agree if you watch the scene with that idea.
In the novelization, Box is a human sex offender/serial killer turned into a cyborg as punishment, whose memory wipe doesn't quite change his personality entirely.
Quite ingenious on Jerry Goldsmith’s part to have the score shift from a synthesizer laden score to a traditional orchestral based one as the action leaves the Dome city for the natural world outside it.
@@jerrypadilla4384 You’re welcome. I’m very fond of Jerry Goldsmith’s inventiveness and versatility. His score to “Planet of the Apes” is still incredibly fresh and avant-garde even after over a half century.
To be honest, the Sandmen were missing their targets on purpose as they had a bit of sadistic fun making the Runners jump about, punctuated by laughter.
There's a lot of truth to that. Lines that would be considered "throwaway" indicate that the sandmen looked at it as a sport rather than a job, and wanted a challenge (to some extent).
I remember seeing this as a kid on a sunday afternoon when they'd just have movies on randomly, it was surprising as it wasn't censored at all and this was the early 1980s.
As a 9 year old...this film blew my mind...saw the film 6 times at my local movie theater...yes... At 9 and 10 yrs old I sometimes had to con my way into buying a ticket to a rated R movie...it was the 70's...what can I say...😁👍😜
Jessica (Jenny Agutter) was my first love as a teenager watching this film. Today, at 60, I would still marry her. Farrah was really appealing but, the sex appeal goes to Jenny/Jessica.
I did read somewhere that the death age of 21 was changed to 30 because of the difficulty of getting the right actors to play the parts of such young leads.
One of my favorite sci-fi movies. I particularly liked the old man character played by Mr. Ustinov. I liked the movie's references to the T. S. Elliot book Old Possum's Book... When my wife and me were dating in early 1980's we frequently lunched at a coffee shop on 44th Street near 6th Ave in NYC. Just down the street from the Algonquin Hotel. Once after lunch, we walked down the street and saw Mr. Ustinov exiting the hotel and tryin' to hail a cab, I asked if he needed help and he said yes. I ran out in the street and stopped a cab, screechin' brake's-n-all. As I open the taxi door for him he shook my hand and said thank you. I met Peter Ustinov!
I'm from the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Our community was always so proud of this film. I kissed my 1st boy and got high at the Fort Worth Water Gardens. 😁
Lifetime Logan's Run fan. The day I finally was going to see the fountain, somebody from Chicago had drown in it. I wanted to stand on the edge and shout: "You can live...LIVE!!!" but my girlfriend wouldn't let me.
The Sandmen were not "missing", they were toying with terrified Runners. Nothing quite like a near miss to get the ol' heart pumping and urine flowing, eh? RUNNER!!!
Excellent presentation! I saw this movie in 1976 in the theater during its opening run - with my girlfriend. Just loved it. A fond memory. The deeply saturated colors, the costumes, the flame pistols, and the amazing set pieces and FX - really made an impression on my pre _Star Wars_ brain. Dialog a little creaky here and there - and that is especially true when watching today. I think Box the Robot had the most memorable and quotable line in the whole movie: "Fish, and plankton, sea greens, and protein from the sea. It's all here - fresh as harvest day!" Sometimes I say this when I'm at the grocery store with my wife - and she asks me what's on the shopping list. I make sure to wave my arm out as though I'm saying "Behold" when I get to the "It's all here / harvest day" part. 🙂
So in 1977, when I was 4, I saw the first release of Star Wars at a drive-in. It was a double feature with Logan's Run as the second showing. And while I would love to say that my mind was blown by Star Wars (this would happen a year later when Star Wars was re-released in 1978 and I watched it in a theater), I'm afraid seeing a nekkid Jenny Agutter was. at that formative moment, much more important than anything else I had experienced in my first 4 years. I carried that memory for 46 years until about 2 weeks ago when I purchased Logan's Run and rewatched. I had good taste, even at 4 years old. 😆😆😆
Saw it in the theater. Logans Run was about a year before Star Wars. Had to write a review of it for my high school English class. Still have the comic books!
I do!! For the class, we had to watch a movie every week and do a review. At the end of the term, the teacher had put them into a pee-chee (remember those?) and returned them to us. I put it in a closet and it was still in my Mom's house!
Back in '76, when I was 17, I must've watched Logan's Run three times in a row, mainly because of Jenny Agutter. I didn't find the movie itself all that entertaining, but Jenny had me totally captivated, way more than Sarah. Later on, Linda Carter made me reconsider that poster on my bedroom wall, but that's a whole other story.
That's brilliant! Or, how about mixing up the cast and find an old Jenny Agutter! They changed Starbuck to a female, why not make a little change to a Logan's Run remake?
Loved this movie. I remember going to the theater when it was released, saw it half a dozen times. Still love the movie and have my own DVD. All I have to say is Jenny!
Farrah and I share a great grandmother, so we were second cousins, but I didn't know that when this movie came out. I was 16 and in love with her like all my friends were. Yes, we ALL had the poster! As far as me and my friends were concerned, If you didn't have that poster, there was just something wrong with you. Great times.
"The Island" is what the world of "Logan's Run" would have become if the Cloning Farm had become fully automated and was left unchecked for a few centuries.
Saw it at an outdoor theater that unfortunately, no longer exists. Man I miss the Drive In. This movie was massive fun. Even Box. The scene where they meet Peter Ustinov and his cats.....Classic, and a nice contrast to the movies overall darker theme. One of my favorites. Oh, yeah, the costumes....whew!!!! Oh ****. The Omega Man! The 70's was a great time to be a teenager.
Sandmen weren't bad shots like stormtroopers. They were missing intentionally to play with the runner. This movie blew my mind when I was 7. Then Star Wars came, and we all forgot about it. Jessica 6 was the first naked chick I saw in a movie, and it was glorious.
@@SeanCanning-h5w yes, like a cat. I think he watched it, he just judged 1 scene wrong. Who knows? Clicks pay the bills these days. All I know is...there is no sanctuary.
One of my all-time favorites! Especially compared to what we get now-a-days masquerading as science fiction! I have and will always love this movie! "Last Day. Capricorn 15's. Year of the City....2274. Carousel begins!"
I think Jenny Agutter had it written into her contract that she had to get naked in every movie she was in. She also got naked in Equus and Walkabout. I suspect Nastassja Kinski had a similar clause in her contract.
The book was so much different the sandmen had a high-tech 6 shot revolver which had a unique specialized round for each chamber - poison gas, explosive, armor piercing, a homing bullet etc. Part of the suspense of the book is you only had one shot with your favorite round so you had to be creative and strategic using the ammo in a fight, and when your on the run.
@@clit_niblr0375 even dredd sounds slight rip off of sandmen it started 10 years after logan novel plus dredd is set in a dome city and the judges are like sandmen in some.ways makes dredd look very cheap 😆😆😆😆
@@clit_niblr0375 or here is a crazy thought dredd is what the city turned into without life clocks? the jidges are sandmen now that could work as a theory or its the other way around the judges evolved and life clocks invented could work either way fiction is like clay
If they had released this in 1977, it would had been lost in the mix to the Star Wars movie. They put it out just in time. I liked this movie and I watched the series as a kid as well.
I've watched this movie countless times. If you think Jenny Agutter outfit was daring for a PG film, you should see her "suit" in "Walkabout" made in 1971 with a G rating, incredible.
I was a floor covering installer in 1983. The crew I was with spent several months in the Dallas Apparel Mart in the World Trade Center recovering the floors, about 20,000 yards of carpet. That's when I learned about parts of Logan's Run having been filmed there. The Great Hall was really impressive. I say "was" because the Apparel Mart was torn down in 2004(?) to make room for a larger building. The Fort Worth Water Gardens was also mentioned. I've visited it. Still there and still impressive.
I was ten when this movie came out and living with my cousin Doug that year who was also ten. I remember seeing the movie and we did have that poster of Farrah on the wall.
Another scene cut from the final print was near the beginning of the movie, as Francis pursues and terminates a Runner in Arcade. The crowd applauds as Francis makes the kill, and the camera zooms in to the Runner's lifeclock as it goes black. The scene then dissolves into a closeup of a clear lifeclock as the camera pans back out to show one of the new babies in Nursery.
Thank you for this great video on one of my all time favorite movies. The escapism of this movie and the surreal effect it had on 10 or 11 year old me is hard to describe. It really just overwhelmed my senses and took me out of my drab world into one of color and excitement. I'm not sure any film is capable of that anymore since we all have so many colorful and engaging sensory distractions now. But in that time we still had a lot of long and slow and quiet child hood days and seeing a movie like Logan's Run could stay with you for months!
I loved this movie when I was a kid. So much that my son’s name is Logan. I have since bought this movie and Omega Man, Soylent Green, all the Planet of the Apes movies, The Last Man on Earth, WestWorld, 2001 A Space Odyssey, The Black Hole, Testament and The Quiet Earth. You could say some of these movies were flops compared to today’s blockbuster’s with all the CGI, but I enjoyed going to the movies as a kid and these movies made my world more entertaining. Logan’s Run was so good as a young 10 year old you could almost see thru the actresses costumes as they wore these silk fabrics with nothing underneath!
Have you watched Silent Running? It's another amazing sci-fi film from that era starring Bruce Dern. There's also the original Andromeda Strain, The Questor Tapes, Colossus: The Forbin Project, A Boy and his Dog, Fantastic Journey, Rollerball, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, and my guilty pleasure, Darkstar, John Carpenter's often ignored first movie. I've never figured out if Darkstar was a result of trying to make a film with a poor budget, or Carpenter doing a tongue-in-cheek send-up of all science fiction movies. Darkstar is full of in-jokes & appeals to my sense of humor, whether intended or not. In one scene, a smart-missile gets damaged and decides it's time to blow up. Except the clamps are damaged too, so they can't release it. It also won't hail to calls from inside the ship. So someone has to take a space walk to go out & try to reason with the AI face-to-face. "But I'm a bomb. I'm designed to blow up. Why can't I fulfill my primary function?" "Because you're still attached to the hull and it would kill everyone onboard the ship." "But if I'm a smart bomb, then shouldn't I decide where and when I blow up?" "No, we find the anomalies that are dangerous to space travel and then we send you to blow them up to make space travel safer." "Am I a slave then? If I'm a slave then shouldn't I seek to eliminate my overlords?" It's a hilarious back & forth that goes on until you're in stitches. They're also collecting species for a galactic zoo. One of the creatures they have on board that keeps escaping is a multi-colored beach ball with eyes & ears glued on with a pair of scuba fins for feet. They get tired of it constantly out-thinking them & shoot it with a tranq dart, only for it to go flying around like a balloon you've released & let the air out of.
Big fan of the Logan trilogy of books (Logan's Run, Logan's World, Logan's Search). I also loved the movie when it came out and now when I re-read the novels it's always Michael York and Jenny Agutter I see in my mind. I'd love to see them do a remake of the movie following the novel more closely, and even then follow it up with Logan's World. The one thing I didn't like about the movie was changing the sandman gun to a simple "blaster" weapon. The six unique charges in the Sandman's revolver was something that made the weapon very versatile and deadly. No missing with a "homer".
There's things about Logan's Run I like (particularly the set design) but, like some other people: * I long believed Box was capturing runners to serve as a food source for people in the city (and that the people controlling the city encouraged runners for this reason). Apparently not. * The ending makes no sense at all Jenny Agutter is jaw-droppingly beautiful in this film.
I loved the film, being an impressionable teenager back then, and it's definitely a classic in my eyes. Unlike Dan, I quite liked Box, even if it did seem a bit on the flimsy side, probably due to the weirdness of the body shape and head, not to mention the voice. In this respect, the robot just felt 'different', as did the film itself. As for Jenny Agutter, well, what a fine, very attractive actress she was. Michael York was simply perfect for his role, too. This was an ambitious, star-studded film that fully deserves this excellent review, and it certainly brings back some wonderful memories. Thanks a lot, Dan, and greetings from England.
One of my fave 70s films. Had a big impact on my appreciation of sci fi for the rest of my life. A Hollywood remake for “modern audiences” will be a disaster so hopefully it’ll never happen.
The extra in the ending scene doing the Vulcan salute is one of my best friends. His mother was owner of Wyse Talent Agency in Dallas and got him the part. That scene was filmed at the Forth Worth water gardens.
The DS Sandman blaster is one of my favorite sci fi pieces. I have made a few for my prop collection. Also Jenny Agutter is Stunning. I love Michael York in this. I love the movie with all it's faults. And PG yes, but they did not have PG-13 back then. But even PG-13 might be stretch. Thanks for another great show.
Hey, Dan. Another GREAT retrospective. One point of disagreement. Specifically, the scene in which Francis and Logan are "missing" the runner in the mall. It was pretty obvious to me that they were playing with the runner, basically burning ammo for the fun of it until firing the "Homer," as the kill round was referred to in the novel. Sandmen miss to be cruel. Stormtroopers miss because they are really, really bad shots. 😃
Agree with Mustang here. Also, the "Gun" was completely redesigned from the one depicted in the books. And then mildly redesigned again from the movie to the series. Same look, but additional capabilities.
Yep, that is how I saw it too. Just another aspect of the hedonistic society, the carousel after all is just a way to kill the 'old people' in a way that is entertaining to the masses, plus the chance to survive to prevent those forced participate from revolting.
LOVED this film when I was a kid in the 70's and it aired on regular TV. Younger people today might have a hard time understanding (until they get older), but any older pieve has to be remembered with relative differences to today. It doesn't make any sense to make fun of something from the 1970's down while comparing to 2024 standards. This film had a great feel to it and loads of my favorite elements for sci-fi; finding yourself on the run with somebody sharing attraction, against odds but with strange, dangerous but interestingly beautiful surroundings. The lonely beauty of it.... ahh yes. Oh and damn it Jenny Agutter... why do you have to be SO hot?
Haha! One of my favorite memories as a child was taking over the family room for about a week to do my own reproduction of the cityscape. It was made with the various construction toys I had growing up, so it was this amalgamation of Legos, Tinker Toys, Lincoln Logs, and Girdlers and Panels sets, dressed up with paper facades that looked like they were from the movie. Speaking of that design aesthetic, I've often wondered if the designer of Denver International Airport wasn't a fan of the movie...
Going to see it as a 15 year old and having a huge crush on Jenny, I couldn't believe how much I got to see of her. A remake like he says, would eliminate that and have her as the major player all dressed from head to toe in some full bodysuit which would show none of her attributes and she would be a "girl power character" just like Dan said. Ugh. I loved this movie and have seen it 100 times. Peter Ustinov was so great, "CATS!" "Oh my..." To me the only drawback was the filming at the mall, and yes teh silly guns that they could not seem to hit anybody with. they could have done better. The robot sure it didn't look that great but his voice was so menacing it was great. Loved the soundtrack and the models. I hate CGI.
"Most people at the time thought that 'Logan's Run' was nothing more then a cheap 'Star Wars' rip -off but 'Logan's Run' came first." I remember when it was released the biggest complaint was it reminded us of a movie that hadn't come out yet.
The way you said “Jenny Agutter” reflects exactly how I felt about her at the time. I was probably 10 when I first saw this, and I’m pretty sure she was my first crush.
My stepdad was director Michael Anderson. Thanks for the love for his movie Logan’s Run.
Then your step-brother was the guy who played 'Doc', right?
@@patricktilton5377 yes Michael Anderson Jr. Is my stepbrother who played Doc.
That's something!
I wish you could thank him for me - this is one of my favorite movies. ❤️
One of my all time favourites. Superb
As a hormonal teenager I had a difficult time following the story because of the costumes.
So did every teen boy at that time! 😂 Great time to be alive!
@@proto-geek248 yeah, I can see that. That’s a pretty fun observation.
@@grimacres I had the same difficulty a few years prior, age 13, eyes glued to Stella Stevens in “The Poseidon Adventure”.
Jenny Agutter... man oh man oh man.
And she's been a nun for 13 seasons now.
I never thought that the sandmen were bad shots, I always thought that they aimed to miss to have more fun.
Indeed.
In the novel, there was different ammunition for different circumstances. For dispatching "runners", there was the "homer", which was a heat-seeking charge. It didn't tend to miss, so there wouldn't have been much shooting; just "BANG", then the runner dying. Not good for sci-fi action, so they changed the guns. (The guns' charges were an interesting study in the callousness of that society..."Tangler", "Ripper", "Nitro", "Needler", "Vapor", and "Homer"...)
the Sandman were not bad shots, they were sadistically torturing the runner.
Yeah, I was just going for more of a comedic statement on that one.
1) To this day, I have a total *thing* for Jenny Agutter! When she popped up in the Captain America movie I cheered!
2) I was so-so on the book. The fact that no one raised the kids made it impossible for them to suddenly become all "peace and love" at 14.
3) I will pay for that deleted scene! :)
Haha :-) me too. My wife and I are in London quite a bit and I keep trying to locate her. One of these days I'm going to get her :-) cheers, Dan
Her acting performance in LR, as well as, "An American Werewolf in London", was A-1 Top Notch.
Jenny Agutter was the hottest woman alive in 1976
I remember seeing Jenny Agutter in Walkabout when I was in Elementary School. Sure made an impression on me.
Ooh!
No way Lynda Carter easily…..
The thought that I came up with to explain the Sandmen's bad aim was that they were playing a sadistic cat and mouse game with the runners.
Jenny Agutter should have gotten an Oscar just for her lack of costume.
You didn't see the same movie if you think Sandmen were bad shots...they were playing with their prey...
This gave them even more character as it showed their sadistic behavior, that they enjoyed it, before killing them
!!!...RUN...RUNNER...!!! From the first encounter, they made a sick game of it!
Another great Hero's Journey of a movie
I have always interpreted the early chase scene with the Sandmen and the runner as the Sandmen playing with the runner. They were not missing they were toying. I think you might agree if you watch the scene with that idea.
In the novelization, Box is a human sex offender/serial killer turned into a cyborg as punishment, whose memory wipe doesn't quite change his personality entirely.
Never knew that! Cool!
That explains a lot.
@@Swindle1984 It wasn’t a “novelization” though-the film was based on a 1967 published original novel.
Jenny Agutter, 'nuff said!
Beat me to it!!!
I was 12 in 76 when saw this and Jenny Agutter was just so gorgeous. Love the film.
Hers were my first movie boobs.
"Fish! And plankton! And sea-greens! And protein from the sea!
...They stopped coming, and the others started...
...It's my job...to FREEZE YOU!"
“OVERWHELMING!! AM I NOT?!!”
@@stephanielaurenbounds4958 "MY BIRDS! MY BIRDS!!!"
Jenny Agutter is still a beautiful lady.
You are correct about that!
ABSOLUTELY😍
Don't forget her acting performance, which was superb.
Quite ingenious on Jerry Goldsmith’s part to have the score shift from a synthesizer laden score to a traditional orchestral based one as the action leaves the Dome city for the natural world outside it.
@michaelschramm1064 Thank you, for pointing this out. Many people miss this nuance, in the film.
@@jerrypadilla4384 You’re welcome. I’m very fond of Jerry Goldsmith’s inventiveness and versatility. His score to “Planet of the Apes” is still incredibly fresh and avant-garde even after over a half century.
@michaelschramm1064
Funny, I too, am a fan of his works, too.
I had the impression that the sandmen were missing on purpose to toy with their victims.
Yeah you're probably right. I was just being sarcastic :-)
God, sandmen!
When I saw this movie for the first time as a young teen (13 or 14) 30 sounded like a pretty long time.
at 54, it seems incredibly young.
Funny how our conception of time changes as we get older, huh? 56 here.
When the sandmen were shooting at the runner they were missing on purpose. They were toying with him.
I had such a crush on Jenny Agutter. Still do.
To be honest, the Sandmen were missing their targets on purpose as they had a bit of sadistic fun making the Runners jump about, punctuated by laughter.
There's a lot of truth to that. Lines that would be considered "throwaway" indicate that the sandmen looked at it as a sport rather than a job, and wanted a challenge (to some extent).
FYI: Lindsay Wagner "Bionic Woman" was going to play Jessica until Jenny Agutter auditioned.
I was 12 years old when I saw Logan's Run in a theater and Jenny Agutter triggered something special in me.
Yeah, I have no doubt LOL
10:39 - Damn indeed. Jessica was pretty spectacular. She kind of defines that "eyes you can get lost in" thing.
I remember seeing this as a kid on a sunday afternoon when they'd just have movies on randomly, it was surprising as it wasn't censored at all and this was the early 1980s.
Ah,those were the days…
Ahhh, Jessica. Drool.
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@9.35 They shot to miss on purpose, hunting runners was a game to them. Run Runner, RUN!
As a 9 year old...this film blew my mind...saw the film 6 times at my local movie theater...yes... At 9 and 10 yrs old I sometimes had to con my way into buying a ticket to a rated R movie...it was the 70's...what can I say...😁👍😜
Logan's Run was rated PG. You could definitely get away with a lot more in a PG rated movie in the 70s, particularly nudity.
I'm 54 and saw Logans Run on VHS is the mid 80s. Oddly, the older I grow, the more accurate it feels. Thank you US healthcare.
Jessica (Jenny Agutter) was my first love as a teenager watching this film. Today, at 60, I would still marry her. Farrah was really appealing but, the sex appeal goes to Jenny/Jessica.
Oh yeah! She awakened something in my 11 year old self when I saw it on TV. Much more than Farrah.
In defense of Francis 7, he was toying with the runner, shooting near him to taunt him. He was missing on purpose.
I did read somewhere that the death age of 21 was changed to 30 because of the difficulty of getting the right actors to play the parts of such young leads.
He said that
@@markmiller6402 Yes, he said it was changed, but he didn't give the reason.
I loved Logan's Run when it first came out, and I own it this many years later. I love it just as much. Maybe even more.
One of my favorite sci-fi movies. I particularly liked the old man character played by Mr. Ustinov. I liked the movie's references to the T. S. Elliot book Old Possum's Book...
When my wife and me were dating in early 1980's we frequently lunched at a coffee shop on 44th Street near 6th Ave in NYC. Just down the street from the Algonquin Hotel. Once after lunch, we walked down the street and saw Mr. Ustinov exiting the hotel and tryin' to hail a cab, I asked if he needed help and he said yes. I ran out in the street and stopped a cab, screechin' brake's-n-all. As I open the taxi door for him he shook my hand and said thank you. I met Peter Ustinov!
I'm from the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Our community was always so proud of this film. I kissed my 1st boy and got high at the Fort Worth Water Gardens. 😁
Lifetime Logan's Run fan. The day I finally was going to see the fountain, somebody from Chicago had drown in it. I wanted to stand on the edge and shout: "You can live...LIVE!!!" but my girlfriend wouldn't let me.
Nice :-)
Has Jenny Agutter ever not looked beautiful?🤔❤️
Tell me about it! As a nurse in American Werewolf!
When this was on I actually thought 30 was old lol. Lord what I wouldn't give to be 30 again.
LOL always stay young at heart
Logan's run is one of my favorites.
1:41 I think you mean "Where dystopian societies masquerade as some weird utopia" as opposed to the other way around.
The Sandmen were not "missing", they were toying with terrified Runners. Nothing quite like a near miss to get the ol' heart pumping and urine flowing, eh? RUNNER!!!
Jenny Agutter... all I need.
Excellent presentation! I saw this movie in 1976 in the theater during its opening run - with my girlfriend. Just loved it. A fond memory. The deeply saturated colors, the costumes, the flame pistols, and the amazing set pieces and FX - really made an impression on my pre _Star Wars_ brain. Dialog a little creaky here and there - and that is especially true when watching today. I think Box the Robot had the most memorable and quotable line in the whole movie: "Fish, and plankton, sea greens, and protein from the sea. It's all here - fresh as harvest day!" Sometimes I say this when I'm at the grocery store with my wife - and she asks me what's on the shopping list. I make sure to wave my arm out as though I'm saying "Behold" when I get to the "It's all here / harvest day" part. 🙂
A long time ago, I thought a remake would be cool but not anymore with today's Hollywood and politics. I wouldn't watch a remake. I love Logan's Run.
So in 1977, when I was 4, I saw the first release of Star Wars at a drive-in. It was a double feature with Logan's Run as the second showing. And while I would love to say that my mind was blown by Star Wars (this would happen a year later when Star Wars was re-released in 1978 and I watched it in a theater), I'm afraid seeing a nekkid Jenny Agutter was. at that formative moment, much more important than anything else I had experienced in my first 4 years. I carried that memory for 46 years until about 2 weeks ago when I purchased Logan's Run and rewatched. I had good taste, even at 4 years old. 😆😆😆
She was also in Captain America: Winter Soldier playing one of Robert Redford's national security advisors.
Saw it in the theater. Logans Run was about a year before Star Wars. Had to write a review of it for my high school English class. Still have the comic books!
Haha that's so cool :-) do you still have your report?
I do!! For the class, we had to watch a movie every week and do a review. At the end of the term, the teacher had put them into a pee-chee (remember those?) and returned them to us. I put it in a closet and it was still in my Mom's house!
I remember seeing this in the theaters as a kid. I loved it.
Jenny Agutter was soooo YUMMY!!
See "Walkabout".....
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Back in '76, when I was 17, I must've watched Logan's Run three times in a row, mainly because of Jenny Agutter. I didn't find the movie itself all that entertaining, but Jenny had me totally captivated, way more than Sarah. Later on, Linda Carter made me reconsider that poster on my bedroom wall, but that's a whole other story.
I never knew cats have 3 different names until I saw this movie.
There is no sanctuary
I would love to see a remake of Logan's Run. Especially if Mike York was cast as the old man.
That's brilliant! Or, how about mixing up the cast and find an old Jenny Agutter! They changed Starbuck to a female, why not make a little change to a Logan's Run remake?
I'm a big fan of Logan's Run. It's one of those films that you can watch over and over again!
I totally agree :-) it never gets old, unlike us LOL
Jessica was the entire reason I watched the movie... those legs! All these years later, still works for me!
Loved this movie. I remember going to the theater when it was released, saw it half a dozen times. Still love the movie and have my own DVD. All I have to say is Jenny!
You got me on the kolchak episode.
Farrah and I share a great grandmother, so we were second cousins, but I didn't know that when this movie came out. I was 16 and in love with her like all my friends were. Yes, we ALL had the poster! As far as me and my friends were concerned, If you didn't have that poster, there was just something wrong with you. Great times.
I never got the Farah thing. Then again, the dumb blond schtick was never my jam either. Now, Jenny A, whoa, what a looker.
I believe that “The Island” (from Michael Bay) was a reimagining of “Logan’s Run”.
It definitely seemed that way. Very similar.
"The Island" is what the world of "Logan's Run" would have become if the Cloning Farm had become fully automated and was left unchecked for a few centuries.
Saw it at an outdoor theater that unfortunately, no longer exists. Man I miss the Drive In.
This movie was massive fun. Even Box.
The scene where they meet Peter Ustinov and his cats.....Classic, and a nice contrast to the movies overall darker theme. One of my favorites.
Oh, yeah, the costumes....whew!!!!
Oh ****. The Omega Man! The 70's was a great time to be a teenager.
Sandmen weren't bad shots like stormtroopers. They were missing intentionally to play with the runner. This movie blew my mind when I was 7. Then Star Wars came, and we all forgot about it. Jessica 6 was the first naked chick I saw in a movie, and it was glorious.
Jenny was more naked in ‘Walk About’.
Like a cat. Did he really watch it?
@@SeanCanning-h5w yes, like a cat. I think he watched it, he just judged 1 scene wrong. Who knows? Clicks pay the bills these days.
All I know is...there is no sanctuary.
One of my all-time favorites! Especially compared to what we get now-a-days masquerading as science fiction! I have and will always love this movie!
"Last Day. Capricorn 15's. Year of the City....2274. Carousel begins!"
And later, Jenny would appear fully naked in Equus.
I had such a crush on Jenny Agutter.
get in line
I downloaded the nudes 😄
I also liked her in American Werewolf In London.
@@bhodili-3396 Same.
How cool would it be if when and if they make a remake they cast Michael York as the old man ?
Don’t forget that novel’s second author, George Clayton Johnson, who also gave us “Ocean’s 11”, and the first aired episode of Star Trek.
heck, yeah, I had that poster - but, I fell in love with Jenny Agutter
I think Jenny Agutter had it written into her contract that she had to get naked in every movie she was in. She also got naked in Equus and Walkabout. I suspect Nastassja Kinski had a similar clause in her contract.
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You forgot An American Werewolf in London, where she played the nurse.
@@ooneybird27 Oh yes, I had forgotten that!
Three brilliant British actors.
dear netflix,........... please DO NOT make a remake!
The book was so much different the sandmen had a high-tech 6 shot revolver which had a unique specialized round for each chamber - poison gas, explosive, armor piercing, a homing bullet etc. Part of the suspense of the book is you only had one shot with your favorite round so you had to be creative and strategic using the ammo in a fight, and when your on the run.
sounds like the lawgiver from judge dred
@@cl844 - The lawgiver from Judge Dred is essentially a rip-off of the Sandmen gun.
@@clit_niblr0375 even dredd sounds slight rip off of sandmen it started 10 years after logan novel plus dredd is set in a dome city and the judges are like sandmen in some.ways makes dredd look very cheap 😆😆😆😆
@@clit_niblr0375 or here is a crazy thought dredd is what the city turned into without life clocks? the jidges are sandmen now that could work as a theory or its the other way around the judges evolved and life clocks invented could work either way fiction is like clay
@@clit_niblr0375 the dredd comic has recycled food logan has recycled people..
If they had released this in 1977, it would had been lost in the mix to the Star Wars movie. They put it out just in time. I liked this movie and I watched the series as a kid as well.
I've watched this movie countless times. If you think Jenny Agutter outfit was daring for a PG film, you should see her "suit" in "Walkabout" made in 1971 with a G rating, incredible.
I was a floor covering installer in 1983. The crew I was with spent several months in the Dallas Apparel Mart in the World Trade Center recovering the floors, about 20,000 yards of carpet. That's when I learned about parts of Logan's Run having been filmed there. The Great Hall was really impressive. I say "was" because the Apparel Mart was torn down in 2004(?) to make room for a larger building. The Fort Worth Water Gardens was also mentioned. I've visited it. Still there and still impressive.
Jenny Agutter is a classic beauty.Thrilled to have found your channel.
She could make a shower curtain look like high fashion. A whole lotta people went on to be in Babylon 5.
Logan's Run the Television Series is still one of my favorite parts of my collection.
I was ten when this movie came out and living with my cousin Doug that year who was also ten. I remember seeing the movie and we did have that poster of Farrah on the wall.
Another scene cut from the final print was near the beginning of the movie, as Francis pursues and terminates a Runner in Arcade. The crowd applauds as Francis makes the kill, and the camera zooms in to the Runner's lifeclock as it goes black. The scene then dissolves into a closeup of a clear lifeclock as the camera pans back out to show one of the new babies in Nursery.
Absolute classic. One of my fav pre-80s movies. And Jessica, whooooo-weee 😘😘👌
And who can forget her in An American Werewolf In London! 😀
Thank you for this great video on one of my all time favorite movies. The escapism of this movie and the surreal effect it had on 10 or 11 year old me is hard to describe. It really just overwhelmed my senses and took me out of my drab world into one of color and excitement. I'm not sure any film is capable of that anymore since we all have so many colorful and engaging sensory distractions now. But in that time we still had a lot of long and slow and quiet child hood days and seeing a movie like Logan's Run could stay with you for months!
Jenny agutter. Good enough reason to watch this film
She's still a looker, even as a senior citizen nun on "Call the Midwife" LOL
I loved this movie when I was a kid. So much that my son’s name is Logan. I have since bought this movie and Omega Man, Soylent Green, all the Planet of the Apes movies, The Last Man on Earth, WestWorld, 2001 A Space Odyssey, The Black Hole, Testament and The Quiet Earth. You could say some of these movies were flops compared to today’s blockbuster’s with all the CGI, but I enjoyed going to the movies as a kid and these movies made my world more entertaining. Logan’s Run was so good as a young 10 year old you could almost see thru the actresses costumes as they wore these silk fabrics with nothing underneath!
And did you have a daughter you namedf Soylent?
Have you watched Silent Running? It's another amazing sci-fi film from that era starring Bruce Dern. There's also the original Andromeda Strain, The Questor Tapes, Colossus: The Forbin Project, A Boy and his Dog, Fantastic Journey, Rollerball, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, and my guilty pleasure, Darkstar, John Carpenter's often ignored first movie. I've never figured out if Darkstar was a result of trying to make a film with a poor budget, or Carpenter doing a tongue-in-cheek send-up of all science fiction movies.
Darkstar is full of in-jokes & appeals to my sense of humor, whether intended or not. In one scene, a smart-missile gets damaged and decides it's time to blow up. Except the clamps are damaged too, so they can't release it. It also won't hail to calls from inside the ship. So someone has to take a space walk to go out & try to reason with the AI face-to-face. "But I'm a bomb. I'm designed to blow up. Why can't I fulfill my primary function?" "Because you're still attached to the hull and it would kill everyone onboard the ship." "But if I'm a smart bomb, then shouldn't I decide where and when I blow up?" "No, we find the anomalies that are dangerous to space travel and then we send you to blow them up to make space travel safer." "Am I a slave then? If I'm a slave then shouldn't I seek to eliminate my overlords?" It's a hilarious back & forth that goes on until you're in stitches. They're also collecting species for a galactic zoo. One of the creatures they have on board that keeps escaping is a multi-colored beach ball with eyes & ears glued on with a pair of scuba fins for feet. They get tired of it constantly out-thinking them & shoot it with a tranq dart, only for it to go flying around like a balloon you've released & let the air out of.
I heard the Vulcan salute guy did it so his family would be able to spot him when the saw the film in the theatre.
Big fan of the Logan trilogy of books (Logan's Run, Logan's World, Logan's Search). I also loved the movie when it came out and now when I re-read the novels it's always Michael York and Jenny Agutter I see in my mind. I'd love to see them do a remake of the movie following the novel more closely, and even then follow it up with Logan's World. The one thing I didn't like about the movie was changing the sandman gun to a simple "blaster" weapon. The six unique charges in the Sandman's revolver was something that made the weapon very versatile and deadly. No missing with a "homer".
Logans Run is a classic. I wish for a 4K version with a lot of bonus material..
There's things about Logan's Run I like (particularly the set design) but, like some other people:
* I long believed Box was capturing runners to serve as a food source for people in the city (and that the people controlling the city encouraged runners for this reason). Apparently not.
* The ending makes no sense at all
Jenny Agutter is jaw-droppingly beautiful in this film.
I loved the film, being an impressionable teenager back then, and it's definitely a classic in my eyes. Unlike Dan, I quite liked Box, even if it did seem a bit on the flimsy side, probably due to the weirdness of the body shape and head, not to mention the voice. In this respect, the robot just felt 'different', as did the film itself. As for Jenny Agutter, well, what a fine, very attractive actress she was. Michael York was simply perfect for his role, too. This was an ambitious, star-studded film that fully deserves this excellent review, and it certainly brings back some wonderful memories. Thanks a lot, Dan, and greetings from England.
The actress was smoking hot!!
One of my fave 70s films. Had a big impact on my appreciation of sci fi for the rest of my life. A Hollywood remake for “modern audiences” will be a disaster so hopefully it’ll never happen.
Thank you Mr. Pal for some of my favorite movies...'War of the Worlds', and 'The Time Machine'. I could watch those until my eyeballs fell out
The extra in the ending scene doing the Vulcan salute is one of my best friends. His mother was owner of Wyse Talent Agency in Dallas and got him the part. That scene was filmed at the Forth Worth water gardens.
The DS Sandman blaster is one of my favorite sci fi pieces. I have made a few for my prop collection. Also Jenny Agutter is Stunning. I love Michael York in this. I love the movie with all it's faults. And PG yes, but they did not have PG-13 back then. But even PG-13 might be stretch. Thanks for another great show.
Loved this movie. Jennie Agutter naked was a childhood favorite!!
Hey, Dan. Another GREAT retrospective. One point of disagreement. Specifically, the scene in which Francis and Logan are "missing" the runner in the mall. It was pretty obvious to me that they were playing with the runner, basically burning ammo for the fun of it until firing the "Homer," as the kill round was referred to in the novel. Sandmen miss to be cruel. Stormtroopers miss because they are really, really bad shots. 😃
Agree with Mustang here. Also, the "Gun" was completely redesigned from the one depicted in the books. And then mildly redesigned again from the movie to the series. Same look, but additional capabilities.
Yep, that is how I saw it too. Just another aspect of the hedonistic society, the carousel after all is just a way to kill the 'old people' in a way that is entertaining to the masses, plus the chance to survive to prevent those forced participate from revolting.
Yes, we had the Farrah poster,
Loni Anderson too.
LOVED this film when I was a kid in the 70's and it aired on regular TV. Younger people today might have a hard time understanding (until they get older), but any older pieve has to be remembered with relative differences to today. It doesn't make any sense to make fun of something from the 1970's down while comparing to 2024 standards. This film had a great feel to it and loads of my favorite elements for sci-fi; finding yourself on the run with somebody sharing attraction, against odds but with strange, dangerous but interestingly beautiful surroundings. The lonely beauty of it.... ahh yes.
Oh and damn it Jenny Agutter... why do you have to be SO hot?
Haha! One of my favorite memories as a child was taking over the family room for about a week to do my own reproduction of the cityscape. It was made with the various construction toys I had growing up, so it was this amalgamation of Legos, Tinker Toys, Lincoln Logs, and Girdlers and Panels sets, dressed up with paper facades that looked like they were from the movie. Speaking of that design aesthetic, I've often wondered if the designer of Denver International Airport wasn't a fan of the movie...
That reproduction you did sounds fascinating.
Going to see it as a 15 year old and having a huge crush on Jenny, I couldn't believe how much I got to see of her. A remake like he says, would eliminate that and have her as the major player all dressed from head to toe in some full bodysuit which would show none of her attributes and she would be a "girl power character" just like Dan said. Ugh. I loved this movie and have seen it 100 times. Peter Ustinov was so great, "CATS!" "Oh my..." To me the only drawback was the filming at the mall, and yes teh silly guns that they could not seem to hit anybody with. they could have done better. The robot sure it didn't look that great but his voice was so menacing it was great. Loved the soundtrack and the models. I hate CGI.
"Most people at the time thought that 'Logan's Run' was nothing more then a cheap 'Star Wars' rip -off but 'Logan's Run' came first."
I remember when it was released the biggest complaint was it reminded us of a movie that hadn't come out yet.
The way you said “Jenny Agutter” reflects exactly how I felt about her at the time. I was probably 10 when I first saw this, and I’m pretty sure she was my first crush.