“Soylent Green” is a science fiction story set in the year 2022 when the earth is over-populated and people are underfed. Most of the world’s population survives on rations produced by the Soylent Corporation. One of the board members is murdered, and a police detective played by Charlton Heston is sent to investigate. The heavy drama proceeds from there, well orchestrated by director Richard Fleischer (“Tora! Tora! Tora!” 1970) from a screenplay by Stanley R. Greenberg, adapted from a 1966 novel “Make Room! Make Room!” by Harry Harrison.
Co-stars include Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Conners, Joseph Cotten, Whit Bissell, Brock Peters, Paula Kelly, Stephen Young, Mike Henry, Lincoln Patrick, Roy Jenson, Leonard Stone, Celia Lovsky, and Dick Van Patten in a small part as an usher. This would be Edward G. Robinson’s final movie role in a long and distinguished career that began in 1916 in silent pictures.
The suspenseful and watchable “Soylent Green” was popular in theatrical release for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Soylent Green (1973)
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“Soylent Green” is a science fiction story set in the year 2022 when the earth is over-populated and people are underfed. Most of the world’s population survives on rations produced by the Soylent Corporation. One of the board members is murdered, and a police detective played by Charlton Heston is sent to investigate. The heavy drama proceeds from there, well orchestrated by director Richard Fleischer (“Tora! Tora! Tora!” 1970) from a screenplay by Stanley R. Greenberg, adapted from a 1966 novel “Make Room! Make Room!” by Harry Harrison.
Co-stars include Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Conners, Joseph Cotten, Whit Bissell, Brock Peters, Paula Kelly, Stephen Young, Mike Henry, Lincoln Patrick, Roy Jenson, Leonard Stone, Celia Lovsky, and Dick Van Patten in a small part as an usher. This would be Edward G. Robinson’s final movie role in a long and distinguished career that began in 1916 in silent pictures.
The suspenseful and watchable “Soylent Green” was popular in theatrical release for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.