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Widescreen Editions THX 1138 George Lucas WS Mega-Rare LaserDisc Sci-Fi

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Award-Winning Student Short on Triumph of Individual...

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Award-Winning Student Short on Triumph of Individual...

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Robert Duvall and Donald Pleasence in... George Lucas'...

THX 1138

( Catalog Number 11162 )
(THX) (2.35:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
Starts with Buck Rogers Clip

THX 1138
1971 - 86 min. - Color
Genre: Sci-Fi
Rated G
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
In George Lucas's fascinating debut feature (based on his short student film), the filmmaking wunderkind creates a futuristic, underground world in which bald, drone-like workers are forced to take drugs to regulate their moods and stifle their libidos. THX 1138 (Robert Duvall) and his mate LUH 3417 (Maggie McOmie) are factory workers, building the robotic police that keep order in their stark world. The soundtrack to their lives is a news service that continually lists information about factory accidents, as well as sex and drug crimes,

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Based on his award-winning student short, George Lucas's debut feature cerebrally celebrates the possibility for individual freedom against all odds. In a 1984-esque white-washed future underground dystopia where sexuality is banned, all humans sport shaved heads and the same shapeless outfits as they go about their work in a mandated state of sedation, listening to exhortations to "Buy and Be Happy." Black-clad robot cops chant a mantra to their victims that "everything will be all right" and automated confessional booths emit soothing therapeutic bromides. But unbeknownst to THX 1138 (Robert Duvall), his roommate LUH 3417 (Maggie McOmie) has been reducing their meds, resulting in their mutual discovery of love and THX's subsequent imprisonment for drug evasion and sexual misconduct. Determined to find the pregnant LUH, THX breaks out of prison with the help of his cellmate SEN 5241 (Donald Pleasence) and an escaped TV hologram (Don Pedro Colley). With fugitive pursuits strictly budgeted, THX only has to evade the robocops until the funds run out, but surveillance is omnipresent and THX's vehicle keeps overheating. Making the only film produced through the first incarnation of Francis Ford Coppola's independent studio American Zoetrope, Lucas and his small crew, including co-writer and sound editor Walter Murch, shot THX 1138 in northern California with no interference from distributor Warner Bros. When Warners saw the austere result, however, they recut the film before its release. Neither the studio's nor Lucas's cut was a popular success, but THX 1138's coolly minimalist style and story-telling gained fans on the college screening circuit, just as Stanley Kubrick's poetic 2001: A Space Odyssey had attracted a large youth audience in 1968. When Lucas returned to sci-fi after American Graffiti, he traded restraint for nostalgic fun in the film that guaranteed his creative freedom in Hollywood: Star Wars. --- Lucia Bozzola

A more contemplative film than the later science fiction work that would make him a blockbuster legend, George Lucas' feature debut THX 1138 already displayed his talent for striking imagery. Produced under the independent auspices of Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope and expanded from Lucas' USC student short, THX 1138's vision of future dehumanization matched androgynous costuming with sparse high-tech settings and an expansive, unnerving, all-white prison "cell," aptly evoking an existence devoid of sensual pleasure. Deliberately paced and infused with early-'70s paranoia as well as somewhat stilted artiness, THX 1138's dystopian view of technology and the future was of a piece with such other contemporary science fiction films as 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Soylent Green (1973), and Logan's Run (1975). The climactic, skillfully edited chase and celebratory final image, however, were also precursors to the direction Lucas' filmmaking would take. A box-office failure on its first release, THX 1138 soon became a favorite on college campuses and garnered a re-release after the phenomenal success of Lucas' more nostalgically upbeat science-fiction yarn Star Wars (1977) brought the director and his hardware a fanatical following. --- Lucia Bozzola

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Cast for THX 1138

Robert Duvall - THX 1138
 Donald Pleasence - SEN 5421
Don Pedro Colley - SRT
Maggie McOmie - LUH
Ian Wolfe - PTO
Sid Haig - NCH
John Pearce - DWY
Gary Austin - Man in Yellow
Julie Payne
Scott Beach
Eugene I. Sullivan - JOT
Johnny Weissmuller, Jr. - Chrome Robot
John Seaton - OUE
David Ogden Stiers - Announcer
Ruth Silveira
Ralph Chesse - Proctor
Claudette Bessing - ELC
Marshall Erwin Efron - TWA
Jean Durand - Listener
James Cranna
Terry McGovern
Gary Alan Marsh - TRG
Morris Erby - Newscaster
Irene Forrest - IMM
Robert Feero - Police Robot

Crew for THX 1138

Lawrence Sturhahn - Producer
Walter Murch - Screenwriter / Sound/Sound Designer
Albert Kihn - Cinematographer
Dave Meyers - Cinematographer
David Myers - Cinematographer
Lalo Schifrin - Composer (Music Score)
George Lucas - Editor / Screenwriter / Director
Michael Haller - Art Director
Edward Folger - Associate Producer
Francis Ford Coppola - Executive Producer
John Ward - Stunts
Jim Manson - Sound/Sound Designer

Feature Details

Title: THX 1138
Feature Release Date: 1971
Genre: Sci-Fi
Rating: G
Color: Color
Runtime: 86 Minutes
Chapters: 24
Picture: Letterboxed
Ratio: 2.35:1
Playback Format: CLV

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Technical Details

LD Release Date: 13 Nov 1991
Catalog Number: 11162
UPC: 085391116264
ISBN: 0-7907-0806-X
Manufacturer: Pioneer USA
Publisher: Warner Home Video

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 2
Cover: Jacket
Certification: THX
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: 11162
Shipping Weight: 1 lbs
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Mega-Rare Widescreen, LaserDisc Movie

Near-Mint LaserDisc and Jacket with some edge-wear and a corner-fold

Robert Duvall and Donald Pleasence in... George Lucas'...

THX 1138

( Catalog Number 11162 )
(THX) (2.35:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
Starts with Buck Rogers Clip

THX 1138
1971 - 86 min. - Color
Genre: Sci-Fi
Rated G
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
In George Lucas's fascinating debut feature (based on his short student film), the filmmaking wunderkind creates a futuristic, underground world in which bald, drone-like workers are forced to take drugs to regulate their moods and stifle their libidos. THX 1138 (Robert Duvall) and his mate LUH 3417 (Maggie McOmie) are factory workers, building the robotic police that keep order in their stark world. The soundtrack to their lives is a news service that continually lists information about factory accidents, as well as sex and drug crimes,

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Based on his award-winning student short, George Lucas's debut feature cerebrally celebrates the possibility for individual freedom against all odds. In a 1984-esque white-washed future underground dystopia where sexuality is banned, all humans sport shaved heads and the same shapeless outfits as they go about their work in a mandated state of sedation, listening to exhortations to "Buy and Be Happy." Black-clad robot cops chant a mantra to their victims that "everything will be all right" and automated confessional booths emit soothing therapeutic bromides. But unbeknownst to THX 1138 (Robert Duvall), his roommate LUH 3417 (Maggie McOmie) has been reducing their meds, resulting in their mutual discovery of love and THX's subsequent imprisonment for drug evasion and sexual misconduct. Determined to find the pregnant LUH, THX breaks out of prison with the help of his cellmate SEN 5241 (Donald Pleasence) and an escaped TV hologram (Don Pedro Colley). With fugitive pursuits strictly budgeted, THX only has to evade the robocops until the funds run out, but surveillance is omnipresent and THX's vehicle keeps overheating. Making the only film produced through the first incarnation of Francis Ford Coppola's independent studio American Zoetrope, Lucas and his small crew, including co-writer and sound editor Walter Murch, shot THX 1138 in northern California with no interference from distributor Warner Bros. When Warners saw the austere result, however, they recut the film before its release. Neither the studio's nor Lucas's cut was a popular success, but THX 1138's coolly minimalist style and story-telling gained fans on the college screening circuit, just as Stanley Kubrick's poetic 2001: A Space Odyssey had attracted a large youth audience in 1968. When Lucas returned to sci-fi after American Graffiti, he traded restraint for nostalgic fun in the film that guaranteed his creative freedom in Hollywood: Star Wars. --- Lucia Bozzola

A more contemplative film than the later science fiction work that would make him a blockbuster legend, George Lucas' feature debut THX 1138 already displayed his talent for striking imagery. Produced under the independent auspices of Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope and expanded from Lucas' USC student short, THX 1138's vision of future dehumanization matched androgynous costuming with sparse high-tech settings and an expansive, unnerving, all-white prison "cell," aptly evoking an existence devoid of sensual pleasure. Deliberately paced and infused with early-'70s paranoia as well as somewhat stilted artiness, THX 1138's dystopian view of technology and the future was of a piece with such other contemporary science fiction films as 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Soylent Green (1973), and Logan's Run (1975). The climactic, skillfully edited chase and celebratory final image, however, were also precursors to the direction Lucas' filmmaking would take. A box-office failure on its first release, THX 1138 soon became a favorite on college campuses and garnered a re-release after the phenomenal success of Lucas' more nostalgically upbeat science-fiction yarn Star Wars (1977) brought the director and his hardware a fanatical following. --- Lucia Bozzola

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Cast for THX 1138

Robert Duvall - THX 1138
 Donald Pleasence - SEN 5421
Don Pedro Colley - SRT
Maggie McOmie - LUH
Ian Wolfe - PTO
Sid Haig - NCH
John Pearce - DWY
Gary Austin - Man in Yellow
Julie Payne
Scott Beach
Eugene I. Sullivan - JOT
Johnny Weissmuller, Jr. - Chrome Robot
John Seaton - OUE
David Ogden Stiers - Announcer
Ruth Silveira
Ralph Chesse - Proctor
Claudette Bessing - ELC
Marshall Erwin Efron - TWA
Jean Durand - Listener
James Cranna
Terry McGovern
Gary Alan Marsh - TRG
Morris Erby - Newscaster
Irene Forrest - IMM
Robert Feero - Police Robot

Crew for THX 1138

Lawrence Sturhahn - Producer
Walter Murch - Screenwriter / Sound/Sound Designer
Albert Kihn - Cinematographer
Dave Meyers - Cinematographer
David Myers - Cinematographer
Lalo Schifrin - Composer (Music Score)
George Lucas - Editor / Screenwriter / Director
Michael Haller - Art Director
Edward Folger - Associate Producer
Francis Ford Coppola - Executive Producer
John Ward - Stunts
Jim Manson - Sound/Sound Designer

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