Movie
Soylent Green
Overview
In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green.
Details
- Release date
- 1973-04-18
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Genres
- Science Fiction, Crime, Mystery
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Charlton Heston as Detective Robert Thorn
- Leigh Taylor-Young as Shirl
- Chuck Connors as Tab Fielding
- Joseph Cotten as William R. Simonson
- Brock Peters as Chief Hatcher
- Paula Kelly as Martha Phillips
- Edward G. Robinson as Sol Roth
- Stephen Young as Gilbert
- Mike Henry as Kulozik
- Lincoln Kilpatrick as The Priest
- Roy Jenson as Donovan
- Leonard Stone as Charles
Crew
- Richard Fleischer - Director
- Stanley R. Greenberg - Screenplay
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