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Soylent Green

Name: Soylent Green
Released: 1973
Duration: 1 h 37 min
Rating: 66

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66 Metascore
1973
1 hr 37 mins
Suspense, Science Fiction

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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 (Charleton Heston) is the tough homicide detective who stumbles onto the secret so terrifying no one would dare believe him.

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Charlton Heston

Thorn

Edward G. Robinson

Sol Roth

Leigh Taylor-Young

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Awards

1975 - Golden Scroll - Best Science Fiction Film - winner
1974 - Nebula Award - Best Dramatic Presentation - winner
1974 - Grand Prize - - winner
1974 - Hugo - Best Dramatic Presentation - nominated

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Walter Seltzer, Veteran Hollywood Producer, Dies at 96

Walter Seltzer, a Hollywood press agent turned producer, died at the Motion Picture and Television Fund's retirement home, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He was 96. Born in Philadelphia, Seltzer moved to Hollywood in 1935, where he got a job with Fox West Coast Theatres. He quickly moved into publicity at MGM, working on films starring Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo and Clark Gable.

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