Soylent Green

United States of America, 1973

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In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret involving the origins of a revolutionary and needed new foodstuff.

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Credits

director

Richard Fleischer

costume design

Pat Barto

producer

Russell Thacher

Walter Seltzer

production company

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

screenplay

Stanley R. Greenberg

Duration

01:37:00

Production places
United States of America
Production dates
1973

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-12101

Language

English

Subject categories

Crime

Mystery

Science Fiction

Thriller

TMDB-Movie

12101

Wikidata

Q426196

Collected

357 times

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