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Title: Westworld


Date: 1973
Type: Sci-Fi
Rating: 4 Stars 4/5
Colour: Yes
Director: Michael Crichton
Producer: Paul N Lazarus

Comment
In a futuristic theme park people can go on holiday to live out their fantasies in recreated historical worlds (western, medieval and roman) that are staffed by robots. However the robots run wild and start killing guests. Yul Brynner gives a great performance as the Western gunman who hunts down two of the guests, even though he has virtually no dialogue and he is basically his same character from The Magnificent Seven. This is a chilling vision of people against robots that is a good mix of suspense and Sci-Fi from the novel by Michael Crichton and was also his directorial debut. It is also notable for some very early computer graphics creating the world seen through the eys of the Yul Brynner robot.

Actors

Yuel BrynnerYul Brynner
James BrolinJames Brolin
Richard BenjaminRichard Benjamin
Norman Bartold
Alan Oppenheimer
Victoria SHaw
Majel Barrett
Anne Randall
Julie Marcus
Sharyn Wynters

Oscars

None
Writer

Michael Crichton
Westworld