ugjohna@sunybcs.UUCP (John Arrasjid) (12/26/85)
I'm looking for the name of a movie set in the future. The story line goes something like this.... The earth is overpopulated and there is no more plant life, so huge space greenhouses are built that grow plants and small animal life for food, and produce oxygen to bring back to earth. There are little robots that work on the station in addition to a small human crew. In the end, one of the crew decides to commit suicide by blowing up all the pods of the green house. If anyone knows the name of this movie, please send me mail. It came out before 1975. I believe it was even close to the release date of 2001: A space oddyssey I think the name was began with the word "Silent". thanx John Arrasjid SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science UUCP: [decvax,dual,rocksanne,watmath,rocksvax]!sunybcs!ugjohna CSnet: ugjohna@buffalo ARPAnet: ugjohna%buffalo@CSNET-RELAY
prs@aicchi.UUCP (Schmidt) (12/28/85)
In article <2666@sunybcs.UUCP> ugjohna@gort.UUCP (John Arrasjid) writes: > > >I'm looking for the name of a movie set in the future. The story line goes >something like this.... > The earth is overpopulated and there is no more plant life, so huge space > greenhouses are built that grow plants and small animal life for food, and > produce oxygen to bring back to earth. There are little robots that work > on the station in addition to a small human crew. In the end, one of the > >If anyone knows the name of this movie, please send me mail. It came out before >I think the name was began with the word "Silent". >thanx > The name of the movie is "Silent Running", with Bruce Dern as the protagonist. Paul R. Schmidt ..!ihnp4!aicchi!prs
brianu@ada-uts.UUCP (12/30/85)
> The earth is overpopulated and there is no more plant life, so huge space > greenhouses are built that grow plants and small animal life for food, and > produce oxygen to bring back to earth. There are little robots that work > on the station in addition to a small human crew. In the end, one of the > crew decides to commit suicide by blowing up all the pods of the green house. The movie is Silent Running, but the hero, Freeman Lowell (played by Bruce Dern) hardly deceides to destroy the pods. In fact, he kills the other human members of the crew when they are ordered to destroy the pods and they attempt to comply. The sound track was by Joan Baez (sp.?). But the real stars of this movie were the robots (called drones). Very R2D2 like and very cute. And they came first. Brian Utterback Intermetrics Inc. 733 Concord Ave. Cambridge MA. 02138. (617) 661-1840 UUCP: {cca!ima,ihnp4}!inmet!ada-uts!brianu LIFE: UCLA!PCS!TELOS!CRAY!I**2