Logan's Run. thirty-nothing 

the concept of carroussel and jenny agutter's almost dress are enough to make this movie much more than a vague memory for this 60 year old man, I can assure you of that

As a child of the 70's/80's it looks like they all live at the mall. And as a kid we did!

Ustinovs "Oh My!" when Jenny Agutter asks to cop a feel.....tremendous.

I saw this in the theater w/my mum, and when Jenny Agutter dropped her fur, my mom jumped up and covered my eyes! I was 12 years old, she was 50. I was mortified, lol.

I love this film, especially the concept, set design, and wardrobe. This futuristic world was both utopia and creepy nightmare rolled into one. I always liked Michael York as Logan - a part of the system, but questioning the system - and had a major crush on Jenny Agutter in her role as Jessica. I wish they made more SciFi films like this.

It's a really marvellous movie, and I remember seeing it at a Drive-In with my parents when I was 6! The fact that it has stayed with me for so many years is testament to the script, actors and originality of film making. It also touched upon the "what ifs" of so many themes which haunt us now. The risk of pandemics and wars wiping out humans, the obsession with youth, consumerism, hedonism and technology - which as always comes at a price. It's a great movie and the cast of Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan and Peter Ustinov are particularly strong. It really is movie that you enjoy but also "makes you think", a rare combination then as now.

I'd forgotten just how beautiful Jenny Agutter was. Side-by-side, she easily outshined Farrah Fawcett

I’m well past carousel time but I still love this movie

The movie had some faults and some of the special effects were not that great but I would still say this is one of my favourite movies of all time, loved the lead rolls from Michael York and Jenny Agutter.

"Development Hell is like regular Hell but with more movie producers." I think that regular Hell gets 99.99% of the producers.

One of the coolest guns in sci-fi along with Space 1999 and Star Trek.

I loved this film back in the day!!!

So.... thirty years of sensual hedonism and then ZZZAAPP! instant death? Sign me up!

Jenny Agutter was smoking hot!

Logan run shows the kids are feral and the adults avoid them, sending them feral. Ty great work as always.

Ever since I first saw this as a teen I've been waiting for scientists to invent that machine that sends a young scantily-clad Jenny Agutter to your home. Why doesn't it exist yet? Ah well, I'll just watch Equus for the millionth time while I'm waiting.

LOVE this movie and love jenny as Jessica OMG X , much love everyone

I was startled whilst watching this vid, when I realised that the much lusted after Jenny Agutter from Logan's Run, has been Head Sister Julienne in Call the Midwife for the last decade.

Well done Stam. For those who have never seen Logan's Run, its still a treat. I hope that good SF will guide a remake on the order of Minority Report.

A little late to the comment party, but Michael York was also excellent as D'Artagnan in the Three Musketeers & Four Musketeers (with a young Christopher Lee as Rochefort)

Oh...Jenny.

Who doesn't hate a bullshit restocking fee! :) That being said, I loved this movie. Fun idea having the costumes match the persons time of life with younger people wearing yellow, people in their early twenties wearing green and those in the last few years of life wearing red.

This movie made people aware way ahead of time about Artificial Intelligence. Life was controlled by a computer with a life span of only 30. The computer's voice was female. This movie was shot in the DFW area with use of the old Zale's building, Fort Worth Water Gardens, Oz Restaurant & Nightclub, and the Apparel Mart/Dallas Market Hall. Released on June 23, 1976, One girl in the movie was Ashley Cox. Her mother thought it was a man's name. She didn't like it. Throughout school Ashley went by the name of Debbie. She was born November 1, 1956. After her father died, she went back to the name of Ashley. At the end of the movie she's the one her touches the old man's face at the water garden. In December of 1979 she was a centerfold/playmate in Playboy Magazine. That was a year and a half after making the movie. She was 5'8" tall. She loved her hometown of Grand Prairie, Texas. When people talk about A.I. today, just remember that Logan's Run was way ahead of it's time in 1976.

Loved Logan's Run - btw, just discovered your channel and have been binge watching. Keep up the great content!

The Carousel scene still creeps me out.

I liked it way back when and I still like it today. 👍

A fair assessment. And indeed Logan's Run was the prototype for the new spectacle of science fiction which exploded the following year with Star Wars.

I was in grade school when Logan's Run came out. I read the book, and I feel movie feels more alien and distopian than the book.

How come this film hasn't been on TV for years?

This was my go to movie to fall asleep to for months back in the day.

"Regular Hell, but with more movie producers." I don't see how that's possible.

Not only did I love this movie, but I have never driven into a lake ;)

The dome city is "Sanctuary". The only place life could exist. The "ANKH" was the key to get in the city post catastrophe.

While that Logan's Run reboot is stuck in Development Hell, its influence can be seen in other "Runner" movies like In Time and The Island.

Thing is this is the only Michael York film I can remember. But Jenny Agutter well there was Walkabout too :D

The original novel, published in 1967, is a bit different, though the same basic plot. William F Nolan and George Clayton Johnson were prolific authors, with Johnson having written for The Twilight Zone, among other things. The book was a commentary on the emerging youth culture and the population explosion brought on by the Baby Boom. Vietnam figures in a bit, as a war led to this society, where life ends at 21. In the novel, Logan's clock starts blinking, that it is his Lastday and he decides, of his own accord, to locate and destroy Sanctuary. This takes him on a cross-country journey, along a sort of underground railroad, leading to Cape Canaveral. The guns that the Sandmen carry are styled after Old West Colt Peacemakers, with 6 chambers that hold different cartridges, with different functions. Logan has to abandon his gun after an alarm goes off, because of his Lastday. Sanctuary is run by a mythical figure, known as Ballard. The film upped the age and had the computer assign the mission, rather than Logan deciding himself. In the novel, he is a hardened Sandman, until late in the story. In the film, he already questions things. There is no Carousel in the book. You went to a sleep center, on Lastday, and were euthanized. Balalrd sort of became the Old Man and the creation of the domed city led to a change in the journey, as it is now about going outside the city, via lost sections of the city, like the underwater plankton processing, Cathedral (where the Cubs are exiled), and the passage through Box's refrigerated areas. Leaving the city alters their lifeclocks, while the book has them continue. The movie is sort of a dividing line between the more cerebral sci-fi films of the late 60s and early 70s and the more whiz-bang shoot 'em up sci-fi that followed on Star Wars' heels. It has elements of both, but with a more literary sci-fi foundation, while Star Wars is more pulp sci-fi/space opera. William F Nolan wrote two sequels to Logan's Run: Logan's World and Logan's Search. The former features Logan returning to the city to find medicine for his young son, after Sanctuary has decayed. Logan's Search finds him plucked into an alternate world, where he basically lives out the same story, though more like the film. Marvel Comics had a 7-issues series, with the first 6 adapting the film and the last issue adapting Logan's World, but using movie continuity. Initial sales were decent, but they dropped off by the end. However, the experience helped Marvel land the adaptation of Star Wars, which was a major boost to their revenue, when comics were in a major slump. The 7th issue also features a back up story with Thanos (the villain in Avengers Infinity War and Endgame), which was weirdly out of place. An unpublished story was repurposed for Star Wars, later in its run.

Logan's Run WAS remade but during pre production the rights were lost in legality and the film became "The Island" starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johannsen.

So, I’d be long dead in this world?

Look at them running around malls without masks and social distancing! No wonder they all died at 30! Loved that city model with small car bring sucked through a plastic tube. That image stuck with me for decades 👍

I feel like the film The Island owes a lot to Logans Run.

Another movie I love.

I learned to appreciate thighs and stuff

There was ONE other big budget SF movie still in production when Logan's Run came out: _Close Encounters of the Third Kind_. Star Wars beat it to the theaters by only a couple of months.

Logan, in 1976: "Look, Jessica, this interrogation room will be converted into a Border's bookstore in a few years!" And that hedonistic pleasure center will become a Starbucks!" Jessica, in 1976: "Logan, this is my favorite mall! But why call it Starbucks? Sanctuary is a much catchier name."

Richard Jordan, who played the ATF agent in "The Friends of Eddie Coyle".

This movie is straight up💯🙌🏼

I've often heard the comment "before Star Wars changed everything". I've never really known exactly what that meant. After watching this video, I'm still none the wiser.

I wish Apple TV made a remake series.

Great review! I remember so many 70's shows that no one else seems to, Ark 2, Jason and Star Command, a fantasy one with teenagers, a one called Phoenix with an alien that get recharged by his medallion. I remember Logan's Run series but didn't see the movie until later. It was the cut version without the sex section with neon people parts!

Love this movie

It is a fine movie, considering the year, you can't compare it with more recent movies. I remember when I watched it, it had a wow effect. You've been too hard m8.

I wished there was a sequel were the people of that doomed city have to learn ho to fend for themselves.

Good film. 70's style. TV series was good. Wish it lasted longer. logan 5

The Island was a carbon copy of logan`s run :)

I still don't know why they didn't make a Logans run vs Planet of the Apes vs The Six Million Dollar Man... Because that would be Kool!

6:12 "killed? Why do you use that word?" Bit of newspeak language policing there. If we use the approved words for things they won't seem so bad; "it's not torture; it's advanced interrogation techniques".

That.was.hilarious...Thank.you..I.think.very.highly.of.this.film..Another.ovie.I.really.hope.does.not.get.remade.

That darn restocking fee.

Jenny Agguter was a beautiful woman. Is she still going strong? I hope so.

6 years ago on a Facebook page about old sci-fi movies I made a joke that this movie was shot earlier today and some guy got angry at me saying no it was shot 30 years ago and I said no it turned 30 years old today so it got killed. He didn't approve of the joke

The robot named box has a silver Xbox like logo on its chest....Weird! Finally watched this classic today.

Very soft spot for this film. York not bad trading on his looks perhaps, but holds the line. Agutter decently steady and moralistic.... almost a harmless lefty. But for me: Richard Jordan steals the day. His pain painfully evident, and in real life died far too young. But Sir, all these videos; You are a genius! Thankyou from the bottom of my heart. Not sure if you've done a video on Zombie Flesh Eaters, and/or BBC's Survivors, ( if ZFE's would be your genre?), but would love to see your approach and humour to such. Again, well done, and thakyou. Keth

SHOPPING MALLS!

Very funny s#it, Stam.

For all the criticism this movie gets vs. Star Wars, Logan's Run was ACTUAL science fiction - talking about the implications of technology and the choices made around in ways that Star Wars never was. Star Wars was just mythology dressed up with spaceships, laser swords and ray guns.

I've been waiting for a modern update to this movie for years but I've given up. Apparently Hollywood would rather keep going back to the man vs machine trope instead of a fresh idea begging for a modern reimagining.

Need "BS Restocking Fee" merch.

I hope someday you take it upon yourself to review "The Love Machine", in which the ankh, with Ms. Susann's remarkable PR skills, became a necessary fashion accessory all during the 1970s.

You better believe it... This is our near future 🔮

The closest movie to a Logan’s Run remake was The Island with Ewan McGregor and Scarlet Johansson .

It's red it flashes black...Logan's run still gets referenced a fair bit in pop culture. I particularly remember an episode of Community which suddenly turned into Logans Run with the security wearing Sandman outfits. I definitely think this would have got a sequel if Star Wars hadn't put Sci Fi movies on steroids just a year or so later. There's also the movie 'The Island' which if you approach as a reinterpretation of LR you can really see as a modern reboot. Heck Ewan McGregor & Scarlet are even called Lincoln & Jordon. Close enough for a couple on the run.

Mall commentary at 7:07 is gold

and now we have Hunger Games

The idea that Hollywood reboots/remakes movies more today really doesn't hold water. There's a movie called The Spoilers that was made once a decade between the 20's and the 50's. The Front Page was made about four or five times, including two versions where one of the main characters was gender swapped. What we have today that they didn't in the past is easy access to the original, which makes comparison much easier and the ability to re-watch and gain emotional attachment. Back then,a when a movie's run ended, it wasn't seen again until television was introduced and they were cut up for the screen dimensions and commercials.

Have you noticed how every TV show made these days seems to have 20 producers or executive producers credited. Seems Hollywood is teeming with executive producers.

The scenes with the old man drag on too long, and the ending is weak,but it's still a decent sci-fi 1970s movie.

The buildings look like "A" in Atari!

Supercomputers that crashed were a regular feature of Consciousness Revolution era science fiction as the writers, and many of the audience of the day, were well familiar with DIVIDE QUOTIENT OVERFLOW error messages and the subsequent system crash. Furthermore, the plot device is logical. Any epistemically closed dystopia dependent on algorithms is going to encounter an anomaly that does not compute. Kirk and Spock were good at inducing such anomalies. The closest parallel is the Landru episode of Star Trek involving a more benevolent tyranny. I fear that today's developers of artificial intelligence are insufficiently aware of the inevitability of such anomalies.

Actually the movie Time with Justin Timberlake i think that is the name, took the idea from Logans Run

If it's the 70s and Jenny Agutter is in it, we'll see some nudity. I saw this as a kid and too it seriously. As an adult, it's kind of camp and dated but ti still has a bit of something good. I read the novel, not only is life ended at 21 instead of 30, there is no domed city. The whole world is living in hedonism and Logan is taken all over the world in his run.

No movies since based on the book? Wasn't that JT movie with the clock on their wrist pretty much this movie with the extra element of time being currency as well?

Show me a sci-fi movie of the past few years done as well as this then. RU-vid reviewers talking s**t as usual. This is one of the best sci fi films ever made.

Michael york = Basel Exposition

With all the casual sex happening, why was nobody becoming pregnant the old-fashioned way?

Sandmen don't run.

Jennifer was (and still is) hotter than Farrah.

Going to heaven or hell if you have faith or not is a dogturd concept.

One thing is true in this film the age discrimination. That isn't scifi but reality today.

1936 version similar

Godamn stam. Some of these comments on here. Bloody crazy people.

Fun review :D The costume design was rubbish unfortunately - all those fucking gauzy flowing tunics like something out of a school play, really held it back.

Watch the film not this.

The young are so intent in being cynically comic they MISS emotions. Who wants to talk about someone's feelings when it's not just as funny as being a dick? When we watch Logan and Jessica, we begin to watch a human bond form. Love. When I watch Luke and Leia -- I feel NOTHING. Because feelings are too 'crass' for cynicism. Did you notice the feminism in this story? Where Logan had no power of Jessica until she permitted it? Most male reviewers are too distracted by Agutter's thighs to notice this. Did you notice that there was something far more tragic when Logan fights and kills his BFF versus Luke fighting Vadar? I'm not saying this reviewer is really being a dick. And I appreciate that he enjoyed it. But if you take the male ego thing down a notch, you might even notice a better film than you're willing to admit.

This review is stupid; Logan's Run was awesome.