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Thx 1138 (Original title)
Date: 1970 (Copyright)

Country: USA

Directed by: George Lucas

Production company billing: ©1970. Warner Bros Inc. WB - a Kinney National company - presents an American Zoetrope production [2.35:1]
Synopsis: Science-fiction: set in a future century in a computer-controlled, subterranean world, where men and women are programmed into subjection through the use of mind-soothing drugs.

Genre:
Science Fiction

Subjects:
Societies of the future, Dystopias, Computers, Drugs
Releases
Date: 11 March 1971Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Sound - MonoRuntime: 86 mins Language: English
Date: July 1971Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - Sound - MonoRuntime: 85 mins Length: 8561 FeetLanguage: English
Date: 1988Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: VHS Videocassette - Colour - Sound - MonoRuntime: 82 mins Language: English
Date: 2004Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) - Colour - SoundRuntime: 85 mins Language: English

Credits (44)
©: Warner Bros. Inc., an American Zoetrope production: American Zoetrope, Distributed by Warner Bros.: Warner Bros., WB - a Kinney National company - presents: Warner Bros., Executive Producer: Francis Ford Coppola, Producer: Lawrence Sturhahn, Associate Producer: Ed Folger, Production Assistant: George Burrafato, Production Assistant: Nick Saxton, Stan Scholl, Continuity: Lillian Mcneill, Casting Supervisor: Ronald Colby, Screenplay by: Walter Murch, George Lucas, Story by: George Lucas, Director of Photography: Albert Kihn, Director of Photography: David Myers, Camera Assistant: Steve Lighthill, Ned Kopp, Lighting Gaffer: William Mayley, Key Grip: Ken Phelps, Film Editor: George Lucas, Assistant Editor: Marcia Lucas, Art Director: Michael Haller, Property Master: Ted Moehnke, Costumes: Donald Longhurst, Titles & Animation: Hal Barwood, {Colour by}: Technicolor, {Filmed in}: Techniscope, Music by: Lalo Schifrin, Location Sound: Jim Manson, Lou Yates, Sound Montages: Walter Murch, Bike Stunts: Duffy Hamilton, Car Stunts: John Ward, [Stunts]: Speed Stearns, The filmmakers wish to thank the following people...: Cal Bernstein, The filmmakers wish to thank the following organisations...: Bart System, The filmmakers wish to thank the following people...: Caleb Deschanel, Haskell Wexler, The filmmakers wish to thank the following organisations...: Inc. Fibre Fab, Synanon, Made at: American Zoetrope Studios
Cast (45)
Robert Duvall (THX 1138), Donald Pleasence (SEN 5241), Don Pedro Colley (SRT), Maggie Mcomie (LUH 3417), Ian Wolfe (PTO), Sid Haig (NCH), Marshall Efron (TWA), John Pearce (DWY), Johnny Weissmuller Jr, Robert Feero (chrome robot), Irene Forrest (IMM), Claudette Bessing (ELC), Gary Alan Marsh (CAM), John Seaton (OUE), Eugene I. Stillman (JOT), Raymond J. Walsh (TRG), Mark Lawhead (shell dweller), Susan Baldwin (control officer), James Wheaton (voice of OMM), Henry Jacobs (Mark 8 student), Bill Love (Mark 8 instructor), Doc Scortt (monk), Gary Austin (man in yellow), Scott L. Menges (child #1), Toby L. Stearns (child #2), Paul K. Haje (prosecutor), Paul Chesse, Ralph Chesse (proctor), Dion'M. Chesse (defense), Bruce Chesse (Pontiflex), Mello Alexandria, Barbara J. Artis (dancer), Morris D. Erby (newscaster), Willie C. Barnes, Richard Quinnell (comic), Jean Durand (listener), Scott Beach, Neva Beach, Terernce Mcgovern, Julie Payne, James Cranna, Ruth Silveira, Bruce Mackey, David Ogden Stiers, Bart Patton (announcer)