“Westworld” is a science fiction thriller about an interactive theme park populated by lifelike robots who malfunction and start killing guests. This engrossing and well paced film was tightly directed and written by Michael Crichton, a novelist involved in his first motion picture project. Not bad for a big screen debut.
Yul Brenner received rave reviews as the primary android who runs amuck, chasing visitors around the park. The extended scene where he relentlessly pursues Richard Benjamin is especially riveting. Co-stars with Brenner and Benjamin includes James Brolin, Dick Van Patten, Alan Oppenheimer, Steve Franken, Norman Bartold, Victoria Shaw, Majel Barrett (“First Lady of Star Trek”), Terry W. Wilson, Nora Marlowe, and Jared Martin, later to be famous as Dusty Farlow of CBS-TV’s “Dallas.”
“Westworld” was a big hit at the box office for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was followed by a sequel “Futureworld” in 1976, and reprised by a television series on HBO starting in 2016.
Westworld (1973)
cinema
My Review
“Westworld” is a science fiction thriller about an interactive theme park populated by lifelike robots who malfunction and start killing guests. This engrossing and well paced film was tightly directed and written by Michael Crichton, a novelist involved in his first motion picture project. Not bad for a big screen debut.
Yul Brenner received rave reviews as the primary android who runs amuck, chasing visitors around the park. The extended scene where he relentlessly pursues Richard Benjamin is especially riveting. Co-stars with Brenner and Benjamin includes James Brolin, Dick Van Patten, Alan Oppenheimer, Steve Franken, Norman Bartold, Victoria Shaw, Majel Barrett (“First Lady of Star Trek”), Terry W. Wilson, Nora Marlowe, and Jared Martin, later to be famous as Dusty Farlow of CBS-TV’s “Dallas.”
“Westworld” was a big hit at the box office for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was followed by a sequel “Futureworld” in 1976, and reprised by a television series on HBO starting in 2016.