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Name: THX 1138: The George Lucas (Director's Cut)
Released: 1971-3-5
Cast: Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley, Maggie McOmie, Ian Wolfe

THX 1138: The George Lucas (Director's Cut)

R
1h 35m
1971

86%

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Before Star Wars, director George Lucas created this haunting vision of the future starring Academy Award winner Robert Duvall. In the 25th century, humans exist in a computer-controlled subterranean world where emotions are outlawed, mind-numbing drugs are mandated and no one has a name, only an alphanumeric designation. But one man, THX 1138 (Duvall), secretly resists his drug regimen and commits the cardinal crime against the state--he experiences love.

Director:

George Lucas

Producer:

Lawrence Sturhahn, Francis Ford Coppola

Writer:

George Lucas

Cast:

Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley, Maggie McOmie, Ian Wolfe, Sid Haig

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

86%

Critics Consensus: George Lucas' feature debut presents a spare, bleak, dystopian future, and features evocatively minimal set design and creepy sound effects.

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Sean Axmaker

Lucas borrows from George Orwell’s novel '1984' and Fritz Lang’s... 'Metropolis' but it’s the vivid low-budget texture that makes the film so memorable, both visual and aural. The sound design by Walter Murch is something to hear.

The movie drags at times and the stark white interiors are wearying, but this is generally more involving than most entries in the genre.

...devoid of even the most basic exposition designed to draw the viewer into its oddball futuristic landscape...

THX 1138 isn't a perfect sci-film but it is solidly entertaining and very unique.

Despite his scenes of bland horror, Lucas offers the 25th century as a arch, campy place, a conception not satiric enough to be accepted as comedy and not quite insightful enough to be taken seriously.

February 8, 2018

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