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Silent Running
Amazing companions on an incredible adventure... that journeys beyond imagination!
( Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi )


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US Runtime: 89 min

Country of Origin: United States of America

Premiere Date:
Mar 09, 1972   [USA]
 
Director: Douglas Trumbull   [Director]
 
Writers: Steven Bochco   [Screenplay]
Michael Cimino   [Screenplay]
Deric Washburn   [Screenplay]
 
Producers: Michael Gruskoff   [Producer]
Marty Hornstein   [Producer]
Douglas Trumbull   [Producer]
 
Cinematography: Charles F. Wheeler   [Director of Photography]
 
Edited by: Aaron Stell   [Editor]
 
Music Composed by Peter Schickele   [Original Music Composer]
 
Production Companys: Trumbull/Gruskoff Productions
Universal Pictures   (US)
 


Plot Summary:

    In a future where all flora are extinct on Earth, an astronaut is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's plant samples, kept in a greenhouse aboard a spacecraft.

Cast:

Bruce Dern
Freeman Lowell
Cliff Potts
John Keenan
Ron Rifkin
Marty Barker
Jesse Vint
Andy Wolf
Mark Persons
Grey Drone #1 “Dewey”
 
Steven Brown
Orange Drone #2 “Huey”
Cheryl Sparks
Orange Drone #2 “Huey”
Larry Whisenhunt
Green Drone #3 “Louie”
Joseph Campanella
Neal - ‘Berkshire’ Captain (voice/uncredited)
Roy Engel
Anderson (voice/uncredited)
 
 

Sound Crew:


Charles T. Knight
Sound
 
John H. Newman
Sound Editor
 
 

Special Visual Effects Crew:


Vernon Archer
Special Effects
Gerald Endler
Mechanical Designer
R.L. Helmer
Special Effects
 
Richard O. Helmer
Special Effects
Marlin Jones
Special Effects
James Rugg
Special Effects
 
 

Art Department:


Frank Lombardo
Set Decoration
 
 

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