Logan's Run (1976)

The gayest scene in the movie is when he’s choosing people to fuck with that machine and a guy shows up.

R1- LOL

That scene too.

I'm not surprised it was written in 1967 - it definitely feels like it spawned from the Summer of Love and pursuit of personal wishes and sexual freedom combined with "don't trust anyone over 30" slogans.

Michael York was a HOTTIE back in the day...jerk off material...

Michael York got his start as Franco Zeffirelli's boy toi. Apparently the maestro was quite obsessed with Mikey. Go figure.

“Fish, plankton, sea greens... protein from the sea!” - Box

Men in tights!

Knowing what Jonathan Schaechter went through with Zeferelli, York probably gave up and put out.

[quote]Knowing what Jonathan Schaechter went through with Zeferelli

How quickly they forget.

Signed, Johnathon Schaech

R9 how does one say " Can't rape the willing" in Italiano?

The film was considered a major production in its time. $9 million to make, if I remember. Seems tame now.

The studios had really high hopes for it and it did good, but didn’t take over the world the way Star Wars would, released less than a year later.

Even though parts of it are clunky and dated, it’s just unusual and detailed enough to remain interesting to some new audiences. I think will always maintain its cult status and be remembered as an example of what science fiction films looked like in the 1970s before Star Wars altered the genre forever (but Alien was close behind… things were changing fast).

One of Farrah's first films.

In the original DVD commentary Michael York takes almost full credit for “discovering” Farrah and having her audio for the role in Logan’s Run. He says he discovered her playing tennis on a court in Los Angeles and chatted her up, encouraging her to audition.

That may have happened, but the “discovering” her for the part doesn’t add up. She’d already done films and television and wasn’t exactly an unknown.

Between the time Farrah’s scenes were shot, and the film was ready for release, the new show Charlie’s Angels had exploded in popularity and turned her into a huge star. This is why her face is so enormous on the posted compared to many of the other images.

R13, but definitely not one of her better as she mainly just tosses her tresses.

OMG

*audition

*poster

I always loved the poster

Sum Ting Wong

Jenny Agutter!

Jon Voight and Lindsay Wagner were originally cast as Logan and Jessica.

It would have been quite a different film.

Then there was the short lived tv version with DL fave Gregory Harrison.

Poor Michael's scrawny butt did not fill out his futuristic Sandman uniform.

Protein from the seamen!

R21- I actually watched the tv version of Logan's Run and enjoyed it. I loved science fiction as a kid

I LOVED - Land Of The Lost The tv version of Planet Of The Apes with the two hot hunks James Naughton and Ron Harper. I was so attracted to them as gayling back in 1974 when the show premiered- I had good taste.

I always found Michael York to be odd looking and unappealing. He was such a big star in the 70's and then he just fell off the planet.

Drugs? Scandal? He was everywhere and then nowhere.

The production design, costumes and special effects are so cheesy, it’s hard to imagine this was a big budget film.

I love how the 'old man' they found outside the city, Peter Ustinov, was considered so old.

Peter was 54.

Granted - he was never a looker, and people looked older back then, but jeesh.

I don't know. He had odd lips, but I thought Ustinov was cute in his 20s.

It’s hilarious that this won a Special Achievement Oscar for Visual Effects in March of 1977, about 7 weeks before Star Wars was released.

R27- No one looked older than Carroll O'Conner did when he first appeared on All In The Family in January 1971.

He is only 46 years old in late 1970 when this photo was taken. He looks SO fuckin old for 46.

FABULOUS score by Jerry Goldsmith.

R30 - no, he was 46 when the show started in 1971 and Jean Stapleton was 47. That's why they have a 19 year old daughter - although now they look like her grandparents. But by the late 70's he was early to mid 50's.

I get your point though. Bette Davis was 54 in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane - where she looked ancient. Sherman Hemsley was 37 on the first season of The Jeffersons, which is CRAZY.

Go through any 1960s and 1970s shows with people over 40 and it's shocking. Ed Asnwer was 40 on MTM show, Tom Bosley was 46 on Happy Days.

R32- I don't care about your NO WAY. Carrol O'Conner was born August 2, 1924 which would have made him 46 years old in January 1971 when All In The Family premiered on CBS.

Smoking ages you.

[quote]r19 = Jenny Agutter!

Watched her just the other night...

Michael York made every movie he was in GAY.

They had to really trim the raunchiness of the book…

Michael York to Petr Ustinov to Carrol O'Connor. Only you dotty old queens of DL.

I always loved this film. It’s so luminous and sexy. I love the soundtrack and the retro effects and sets.

Logan wears a caftan at home.

Is there supposed to be some sexual tension between the two sandmen? When York runs away with the girl the other guy almost seems jealous.

We used to freeze frame one split second in the Love Shop scene because we swore you could see two guys back there in a corner getting it on.

When Logan wants sex he clicks onto the circuit. The first person that appears is a man who puts his hand on his hip and his finger in his mouth, I guess to suggest he is a gay.

If you freeze frame key moments in the Box robot scene you can see camera, crew, equipment, etc. reflected in the mirrors all over the robot’s body.

The many extras in the mall/plaza/escalator scenes are primarily normal people from the Dallas/Ft. Worth who answered an ad to appear as paid extras in a movie. Some of them look pretty slack-jawed and greasy faced! LOL!

The crowd scenes shot in Los Angeles in studios (like inside the Carousel arena) were all extras from the Hollywood area. There’s a noticeable difference.

[quote]Between the time Farrah’s scenes were shot, and the film was ready for release, the new show Charlie’s Angels had exploded in popularity and turned her into a huge star. This is why her face is so enormous on the posted compared to many of the other images.

Actually, your timeline is a little off.

The film premiered on June 23, 1976. "Charlies Angels" premiered three months later, on September 22, 1976.

Once "CA" premiered, Farrah was so clearly the biggest star of the TV season, so only then the studio tried to push "LR" hard again this time (months after it premiered) by featuring Farrah on the poster and prominently mentioning her name in ads. But during the summer before she had not been on the original poster nor pushed hard by name in the original ads.

Mad Magazine parody was called Logan's Ruin.

Page 1.

Yeah there’s always been talk of remaking this and I’ve always thought, whatever the concept, it should be all muscular men with big thick thighs in nearly see through tights. And amp up the pursuit of pleasure without guilt, just make it sexy AF.

We know the cubs are dangerous because they speak in whispers.

R49 And give it pizzazz.

Michael York was such a lovely man in his prime.

I have to laugh when I see the miniatures of the city because they look so fake.

R6 It seems that putting the moves on his attractive young male stars was the norm for Franco Zeffirelli for his films. I don't believe Michael York and Leonard Whiting haven't really said anything public about Zeffirelli, but I'm sure they went through similar unwanted sexual advances that Johnathan Schaech and Bruce Robinson had experienced.

The lady runner in the cub hideout looks like Courteney Cox.

Yeah; she’s also a bit…ahem…. careworn for someone supposed to be under 30…

She is Linda Lindsay and born January 1942 so over 30.

LARA I mean.

R11 you mean his ball sack?

R57 She is also (nerdy film trivia) the voice of the domed city’s omnipresent computer.

I never knew that…

R57- She was very pretty and looked very much like Margot Kidder.

In the future it's best that you have a British accent.

Michael York is not a great puncher.

[quote]It’s hilarious that this won a Special Achievement Oscar for Visual Effects in March of 1977, about 7 weeks before Star Wars was released.

The miniature futuristic city with the tiny cars traveling thru the clear tubes was cheesy even before "Star Wars" blew it off the screen.

But Richard Jordan, though…he was in love with Logan.

I always thought that too r66.

R14 I wouldn't believe anything Michael York said

OP I saw Logan's run in the summer of 1976 with my friend who was a SF fan. I was 11 years old and agree with your parents. I thought it was boring and cheap looking and the only thing I really remember about it was Farrah Fawcett

Michael Anderson Jr, who plays Doc is the director's son.

R69- I too saw Logan's Run in 1976 with my parents in September 1976. I was 11 years old as well and while I can't say that I loved it. I definitely liked it. I was really into Science Fiction at that time- I LOVED Planet Of The Apes ( 1968) when I first watched it on tv. I also loved the movie Soylent Green (1973) which I also watched on tv. Logan's Run was not nearly as good as those two movies especially Planet Of The Apes but I found it entertaining enough as an 11 year old. I'm assuming you were not into Science Fiction at that time.

I am thinking Doc is the one OP is referring to as Queeny and Bitchy, though not an android that I could tell.

My favourite piece of the score…

R71 I like the Man Who Fell to Earth, The Andromeda Strain, Demon Seed, Zardoz, Mad Max . . .and several other 70s SciFi films but I thought Logan's Run was derivative and unimaginative and on a par with an episode of Lost in Space. Logan's Run was a short-lived TV series starring Gregory Harrison and Heather Menzies.

I saw it with my grandmother in August 1976 when I was 10 years old. I had already read the book while I waited for it to be released on the north side of the Detroit area. I remember the weekday matinee audience cheered when Farrah Fawcett-Majors’ name appeared in the opening credits.

R73, at the time, I had the soundtrack too - which was one of the better things about the film (well a score from Ross & Reznor for the remake - it would be great for Luca since it suits his style over substance ethos). Anyway, I wrote to MGM and inquired about the sheet music for that final piece - I was such an industrious child - and they sent me “Love Theme from Logan’s Run (Follow the Sun)” and it had lyrics that went something like, “…dah dah dah, there’s a world, for lovers on-ly. Lovers who are lonely know where to find it” and then at the end of the verse or whatever, “…love will grow, if we fol-low the sun!” I used to play it on the piano.

Terrible lyrics but I imagine at one point they must’ve considered a vocal version, maybe to be eligible for Best Song or like the Irwin Allen films of the time, use a chart hit to promote the movie. Not with those lyrics!

I loved the poster but like everything else about Logan’s Run, it was so odd the way they went from the original Agutter version of Jessica on the poster to that sort of blonde fembot version that looked nothing like her.

*we’ll need a score from Ross & Reznor…

R72- Doc is the doctor who performs laser surgery to change ones appearance in the movie- he does seems a bit of bitchy queen in that scene but not in same league as the shimmering android in the ice cave.

“Into that far away place we’ll discover, a lover’s daydream to chase as…we…go!”

Terrible lyrics.

Logan. I'm your friend. I understand. We all go crazy once in a while.

[quote] like the Man Who Fell to Earth, The Andromeda Strain, Demon Seed, Zardoz, Mad Max . . .and several other 70s SciFi films

"The Andromeda Strain", now that is a great movie, saw it three times in the theatre as a kid and was on the edge of my seat all three times.

There's nothing wrong with some 70s cheese fests. It was a cheesy decade

I saw Logan's Run in '76 when it opened and I thought it looked cheesy then.

I did however think the hook-up machine was a great idea but was certain I'd never see anything like it in my lifetime. Ha!

Poor Holly gets blown away when the Sandmen attack the underground group.

Logan drops Jessica's Ankh door key when all she has to do is hand it over and then they can't find it in water. But Francis finds it when he isn't even looking for it.

OP What’s gay about Renewal? Being decapitated by a ceiling fan while wearing a red gimp suit?

Oh. See what you mean…

I can't believe people thought that renewal meant what that. It was so obvious the participants were killed.

Well, people believe in heaven. What’s the difference?

When Logan and Jessica explore under the giant breeding pool it's inevitable that gunfire will result in the water being released and flooding the area.