Directed by:
Richard FleischerScreenplay:
Stanley R. GreenbergCinematography:
Richard H. KlineComposer:
Fred MyrowCast:
Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Joseph Cotten, Brock Peters, Paula Kelly, Edward G. Robinson, Mike Henry, Lincoln Kilpatrick (more)VOD (2)
Plots(1)
The is the year 2022. Overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society's leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green - an artificial nourishment whose actual ingredients are not known by the public. Thorn is the tough homicide detective who stumbles onto the secret so terrifying no one would dare believe him. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Charlton Heston
USA
Best movies:
Ben-Hur (1959)
The Big Country (1958)
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
Leigh Taylor-Young
USA
Best movies:
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968)
Jagged Edge (1985)
The Horsemen (1971)
Chuck Connors
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
The Big Country (1958)
Roots (1977) (series)
Joseph Cotten
USA
Best movies:
Gaslight (1944)
Citizen Kane (1941)
The 3rd Man (1949)
Brock Peters
USA
Best movies:
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Roots: The Next Generations (1979) (series)
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
Paula Kelly
USA
Best movies:
Drum (1976)
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
Edward G. Robinson
Romania
Best movies:
Double Indemnity (1944)
Scarlet Street (1945)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Mike Henry
USA
Best movies:
Spencer's Mountain (1963)
Skyjacked (1972)
Rio Lobo (1970)
Lincoln Kilpatrick
USA
Best movies:
The Lost Man (1969)
Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
Deadly Force (1983)
Stephen Young
Canada
Best movies:
Patton (1970)
Breaking Point (1976)
Rage (1972)
Whit Bissell
USA
Best movies:
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
Dick Van Patten
USA
Best movies:
'Weird Al' Yankovic: The Videos (1996) (video compilation)
Charly (1968)
Spaceballs (1987)
Morgan Farley
USA
Best movies:
Hello, Dolly! (1969)
Julius Caesar (1953)
High Noon (1952)
Tim Herbert
USA
Best movies:
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
Duel (1971) (TV movie)
The Boston Strangler (1968)
Roy Jenson
Canada
Best movies:
Cry for Me, Billy (1972)
Chinatown (1974)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
Robert Ito
Canada
Best movies:
The X-Files – File 5: 82517 (1995) (video compilation)
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
Midway (1976)
John Dennis
USA
Best movies:
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Airport (1970)
Funny Girl (1968)
Leonard Stone
USA
Best movies:
American Pop (1981)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Soylent Green (1973)
Cyril Delevanti
UK
Best movies:
Limelight (1952)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Teacher's Pet (1958)
Celia Lovsky
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)