Silent Running (1972) Movie Overview

Silent Running is a 1972 environmentally-themed science fiction film, directed by Douglas Trumbull, who had previously worked as a special effects supervisor on such science fiction films as 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Andromeda Strain. Silent Running depicts a future in which all plant life on Earth has been made extinct, except for a few specimens preserved in a fleet of space-borne freight ships converted to carry greenhouse domes. When orders come from Earth to jettison and destroy the domes, the botanist aboard the greenhouse-ship ‘Valley Forge’ (Bruce Dern) rebels, and eventually opts instead to send the last dome into deep space to save the remaining plants and animals. The film costars Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin and Jesse Vint. The movie depicts a future in which all plant life on Earth has been made extinct. Only a few specimens have been preserved just outside the orbit of Saturn, in enormous, greenhouse-like geodesic domes attached to a fleet of American Airlines “Space Freighters”. Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) is one of four crewmen aboard the Valley Forge, one of the 2,000 metre-long freighters, and is the resident botanist and ecologist who preserves the forests for the… Source

• Silent Running Movie Details
• Director: Douglas Trumbull
• Tagline: Amazing companions on an incredible adventure… that journeys beyond imagination!
• Country: USA
• Run Time: 89 min
• Genre: Adventure , Drama , Sci-Fi

• Cast Overview
• Bruce Dern as Freeman Lowell
• Cliff Potts as John Keenan
• Ron Rifkin as Marty Barker
• Jesse Vint as Andy Wolf
• Mark Persons as Drone 2 – Huey
• Steven Brown as Drone

Silent Running Movie Details from Imdb

The loner crew member of a spaceship harbouring Earth’s last nature reserves goes renegade when he is instructed to jettison his beloved forests and return home. Accompanied only by three robots, he ponders the fate of his last pocket of nature and the murders of his fellow crew members in this far-looking speculative film. Written by Keith Loh {lo… Source

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