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Ah yes, those pre-Star Wars movies from the 1970s.

Hollywood was convinced that if they spent big bucks on science fiction movies they were being as dumb as the suckers in Las Vegas. Rolling Eyes

Here's three examples of stingy film making that failed to excite the public.

~ UFO: Target Earth (1974)

~ The Ultimate Warrior (1974)

~ Westworld (1974)

Hard to believe that just three years later George Lucas would make Star Wars (which the studios thought would fail) and teach the suits in Tinsel Town that nerds around the world had billions of dollars in the pockets of their baggy pants, and they were just itchin' to spend it on multiple viewingss films that really gave them what they wanted.




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UFO: Target Earth (1974)

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Producer-director Michael A. De Graetono's overly talky tale of an electronics expert who detects a strange series of signals and tracks their source to a spacecraft hidden at the bottom of a nearby lake.

The aliens are energy beings whose shape constantly changes. The budget is said to have been $70,000. Starring Nick Plakias and Cynthia Kline.
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The Ultimate Warrior (1974)

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A plague destroys civilization in the 21st century, and the ruins of New York are populated by armed gangs and ragged lunatics.

Yul Brynner plays a tough, knife-wielding survivalist. Max Von Sydow is a kind of fuedal lord, the leader of the biggest gang in the city, a man who stock-piles the last of civilizations treasures such as wine, cigars, etc.

Joanne Miles is a pregnant woman who is protected by Brynner as he battles his wasy through and beneath the city (in subway tunnels). There's plenty of action, even though director Robert Clouse doesn't treat this potentially good premises as well as he should have. John Carpenter had the same problem with "Escape from New York".

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Westworld (1974)

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Westworld, Romanworld, and Medievalworld are three sections of a hi-tech theme park in a future age when robots can be made to look exactly like real people (right down to the working sexual organs).

Park visitors can indulge their fantasies by pretending to be cowboys, Roman citizens, royalty in Olde England, etc. James Brolin and Richard Benjamin are two guest who chose the Westworld section and experience realistic bar room brawls, sex with lovely (robot) saloon girls, and fake shoot-outs with gun??fighter robots.

Yul Brynner plays a black-clad gunfighter who dutifully challenges Brolin and Benjamin to several showdowns in the street. Unbeknowst to the park's technical staff, a computer virus has infected the master computer. The computer causes the robots to go berserk and murder the quests.

Benjamin survives and flees to Medieval World, but Brynner doggedly pursues him, tracking Benjamin with his infrared vision, eventually corner the man.

"Westworld" is based on a fine concept, but it isn't given the treatment it deserves. The sets, props, and general appearance provided by writer-director Michael Crichton makes it look just a bit to much like a made-for-TV movie.

On the flip side, the casting of Yul Brynner (star of "The Magnificent Seven") was a masterful touch. Brynner even wears the same outfit he had in "The Magnificent Seven".

Just think: if a theme park like Westworld ever becomes a reality, the designers will probably build a "Yul Brynner" robot to go with it!

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