Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
In 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.
- based on novel or book
- paranoia
- dystopia
- greenhouse effect
- global warming
- overpopulation
- water shortage
- cannibal
- genocide
- murder investigation
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Charlton Heston
Detective Robert Thorn
Leigh Taylor-Young
Shirl
Chuck Connors
Tab Fielding
Joseph Cotten
William R. Simonson
- Brock Peters — Chief Hatcher
- Paula Kelly — Martha Phillips
- Edward G. Robinson — Sol Roth
- Stephen Young — Gilbert
- Mike Henry — Kulozik
- Lincoln Kilpatrick — The Priest
- Roy Jenson — Donovan
- Leonard Stone — Charles
- Whit Bissell — Gov. Santini
- Celia Lovsky — The Exchange Leader
- Dick Van Patten — Usher #1
- Directed
- Richard Fleischer
- Written
- Stanley R. Greenberg
Production
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 · 1,476 ratings
- Studio
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
