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Category: 16
All Genres: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Release Year: 1973
Country: USA
Runtime: 97
Rating: (0)
Languages: English
Director: Richard Fleischer
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

It's the year 2022... People are still the same. They'll do anything to get what they need. And they need SOYLENT GREEN.

Writing by: Harry Harrison - (novel "Make Room! Make Room!")
Stanley R. Greenberg - (screenplay)

Produced by: Walter Seltzer - producer
Russell Thacher - producer

Cast: Charlton Heston - Detective Robert Thorn
Leigh Taylor-Young - Shirl
Chuck Connors - Tab Fielding
Joseph Cotten - William R. Simonson
Brock Peters - Lt. Hatcher - Chief of Detectives
Paula Kelly - Martha Phillips
Edward G. Robinson - Solomon 'Sol' Roth
Stephen Young - Gilbert
Mike Henry - Sgt. Kulozik
Lincoln Kilpatrick - Father Paul
Roy Jenson - State Security Chief Donovan

Music: Fred Myrow
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Plot Outline: 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.
Plot: A tale of Earth in despair in 2022. Natural food like fruits, vegetables, and meat among others are now extinct. Earth is overpopulated and New York City has 40 million starving, poverty stricken people. The only way they survive is with water rations and eating a mysterious food called Soylent. A detective investigates the murder of the president of the Soylent company. The truth he uncovers is more disturbing than the Earth in turmoil when he learns the secret ingredient of Soylent Green.

Movie Quotes: Det. Thorn: Who bought you?
Hatcher: You're bought as soon as they pay you a salary.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
On the DVD version of the film, the opening credits are different. There are occasional pauses in the original animation where additional voice actor credits are inserted. This is not in the original release, or in the earlier VHS versions.

Goofs: We know about 7 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: When Thorn is in the Soylent Green factory, he knocks two factory employees off the catwalk. A stunt mattress can clearly be seen sticking out from underneath the conveyor belt where the second one lands.

Trivia: There are 15 entries in the trivia list - like these:
The technical consultant for the film was Frank R. Bowerman, who was president of the American Academy for Environmental Protection at the time.
The scene where Thorn 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 designed "Pong". The videogame was painted white for the movie but the original color was either yellow, red or blue.