Logan's Run

Logan's Run (1976)

Timing: 1:59 (119 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1976-06-23

Country

United States

Production

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, A Saul David Production

Genre

Action, Science Fiction

Budget

$9 000 000

Revenue

$25 000 000

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Director

Michael Anderson

Actors

Michael York, Richard Jordan, Jenny Agutter, Roscoe Lee Browne, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Anderson Jr., Peter Ustinov, Randolph Roberts, Lara Lindsay, Gary Morgan
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Scenario

Producer

Saul David

Operator

Ernest Laszlo

Composer

Jerry Goldsmith

Artist

Audition

Jack Baur

Editing

Bob Wyman
All team (65)

• The film is based on a book by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson.
• One scene, originally four minutes long, had to be shortened and re-edited to secure a 'PG' rating (parental guidance suggested). A scene with an ice sculpture of nude Logan and Jessica was completely removed from the film. Another scene was cut because it depicted drug use. The footage of all these scenes and the film's music were lost during the so-called 'purge,' when Kirk Kerkorian (1917-2015), the owner of the film company 'MGM,' sold off as many of the company's extensive archives as he could, and simply discarded the rest.
• The waterfalls and steps where Logan jumps to return under the dome were filmed at the Water Gardens in Fort Worth, Texas. Initially, the pool was about three meters deep, but in 2004, four people drowned near the spot where Logan and Jessica jumped. The pool was closed to visitors and reopened only in 2007. Upon reopening, the pool's depth was reduced to half a meter.
• The costumes were initially designed to be more revealing, but this would have required more makeup for the exposed body parts (and therefore more funding), so the costumes were made more modest.
• The scene in the ice cave was filmed in Los Angeles in the summer. The frozen people were portrayed by extras painted white. For each take, they had to stand completely still for several minutes.
• The model of the city under the dome lacks detail to look realistic, but the model was made large enough to construct a real railway with miniature cars on it. Many of the buildings in the foreground reached a meter in height. The buildings were constructed at different scales depending on the distance to the camera.
• One scene, originally four minutes long, had to be shortened and re-edited for the film to receive a "PG" rating (parental guidance suggested). A scene with an ice sculpture of nude Logan and Jessica was completely cut from the film. Another scene was cut because it showed drug use. The footage of all these scenes, as well as the film’s music, was lost during the so-called "purge," when Kirk Kerkorian (1917-2015), the owner of the film company "MGM," sold off as many of the company’s extensive archives as he could, and simply threw the rest away.