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• track _Dialectical Transformation III (Soylent Green)_ MP3 by DJ Spooky off of _Riddim Warfare_ CD on Outpost/Asphodel
• track _Soylent Green_ MP3 by BGK

• Soylent Green was Edward G Robinson's last film.
• The technical consultant for the film was Frank R. Bowerman, who was president of the American Academy for Environmental Protection at the time.

• One of the scenes of the "beautiful earth" shown to Sol as he is dying is an opening shot from _Far From The Madding Crowd_ (1967) (a flock of sheep on a green hillside).

• The scene where Thorne and Roth share a meal of fresh food was not originally in the script, but was ad-libbed by Charlton Heston and Edward G Robinson at director Richard Fleischer's request.
• The videogame in Simonson's apartment, _Computer Space_, was one of the first coin-operated videogames, manufactured by Nutting Associates in 1971 and designed by Nolan Bushnell, who later founded Atari and was credited as the inventor of _Pong_.
• A slogan was used in the film: "Tuesday is Soylent Green Day"
• One set of scenes in the original release, where a second family is housed with Thorne and Roth, was deleted from later copies of the film.
• Coincidentally, the director's surname, Fleischer, is German for "butcher."

Writing credits
Harry Harrison (novel Make Room! Make Room!)
Stanley R. Greenberg

Genre: Sci-Fi / Thriller

Cast (in credits order)
Charlton Heston  ....  Police Detective Thorn
Leigh Taylor-Young ....  Shirl
Chuck Connors ....  Tab Fielding
Joseph Cotten  ....  William Simonson
Brock Peters  ....  Hatcher
Paula Kelly ....  Martha
Edward G. Robinson  ....  Sol Roth
Stephen Young  ....  Gilbert
Mike Henry  ....  Kulozik
Lincoln Kilpatrick  ....  The Priest
Roy Jenson  ....   Donovan
Leonard Stone  ....  Charles
Whit Bissell  ....  Santini
Celia Lovsky  ....  Exchange Leader
Dick Van Patten  ....  Usher #1
Morgan Farley  ....   Book #1
John Barclay  ....  Book #2
Belle Mitchell  ....  Book #3
Cyril Delevanti   ....  Book #4
Forrest Wood   ....  Attendant
Faith Quabius  ....  Attendant
Jane Dulo  ....   Mrs. Santini
Tim Herbert  ....  Brady
John Dennis ....  Wagner
Jan Bradley  ....  Bandana Woman
Carlos Romero  ....  New Tenant
Pat Houtchens  ....  Fat Guard
Joyce Williams  ....  Furniture Girl
Erica Hagen  ....  Furniture Girl
Beverly Gill  ....  Furniture Girl
Suesie Eejima   ....   Furniture Girl
Cheri Howell  ....  Furniture Girl
Kathy Silva  ....  Furniture Girl
Jennifer King  ....  Furniture Girl
Marion Charles  ....  Furniture Girl

Produced by
Walter Seltzer
Russell Thacher

Original music by
Fred Myrow

Additional music by
Edvard Grieg
(from "Peer Gynt")
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
(from "6. symphony")
Ludwig van Beethoven
(from "6th Symphony in F, Op.68 'Pastorale'")

Cinematography by
Richard H. Kline

Film Editing by
Samuel E. Beetley

Casting
Jack Baur

Art Direction
Edward C. Carfagno

Set Decoration
Robert R. Benton

Costume Design by
Pat Barto

Makeup Department
Bud Westmore  ....   makeup artist
Sherry Wilson  ....  hair stylist

Production Management
Lloyd Anderson  ....   unit production manager

Assistant Director
Gene Marum  ....second assistant director
Daniel McCauley  ....  assistant director

Sound Department
Harry W. Tetrick   ....  sound
Charles M. Wilborn ....   sound
 

Special Effects
Robert R. Hoag   ....   special photographic effects
Augie Lohman  ....  special visual effects
Matthew Yuricich  ....  special photographic effects
 

Other crew
Terry Ballard   ....   property master
Frank R. Bowerman  ....  technical advisor
Norman A. Burza  ....  costumer
Joe Canutt   ....  action sequence co-ordinator
Betsy Cox  ....  costumer
Gerald Fried  ....   symphony music conductor

Production Companies
MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) (aka MGM-UA) [us]

Distributors
MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) (aka MGM-UA) [us]

Prologue photos
Magnum

Special photographic sequences
Braverman Productions, Inc.

Runtime: USA:97 / Germany:97
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color (Metrocolor)
Sound Mix: Mono
Certification: USA:PG / Finland:K-18 / Germany:16 / Sweden:15

first mention of Soylent Green in Usenet:

From: Greg Skinner (gds@mit-eddie.UUCP)
Subject: Re: Fave SF movies
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Date: 1984-01-14 06:36:08 PST

Some of my fave SF is kind of older, but here goes:

The whole Planet of the Apes series, especially {Beneath the, Escape from the} Planet of the Apes.  (Roddy McDowall played the major role as Cornelius in Planet and Escape, and as Caesar in Conquest and Battle.)

The Omega Man, starring Charlton Heston.

Soylent Green, starring the same.  I especially enjoyed the scenes where he investigated the Soylent plant.

_Logan's Run_ (forgot who starred in it).

And, let's not forget, the entire _Star Wars_ series, especially TESB.

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--greg
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