Its about a man on a space ship with some trees, which i think he has to save as trees no longer exist on earth, and two robots?
I think the guy goes a bit bonkers.
I'm sure it is a real film too, i did not have a strange dream in case any one was wondering!
2006-06-15 21:04:56 · 16 answers · asked by Sara Jayne 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Sort of semi-sounds like Silent Running (one of my all time favourite movies)
Bruce Dern... Three robots to start with (Hewey, Lewey and Dewey)... Aboard the USS Valley Forge...
Sad movie!!!
2006-06-15 21:09:35 · answer #1 · answered by Forlorn Hope 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Science fiction literature has a foot in both camps. While a novel like 1984, written in 1948, clearly echoes the bleak world of cold war Britain, Pohl and Kornbluth's The Space Merchants, published in the boom times of the American 1950s, foretells a polluted world in which trees are so valuable that wood is used to make jewellery rather than furniture.
this is from a web page but I can't find anything if I search Space Merchants in film
this was the web page
http://www.zenonic.demon.co.uk/zenorobot.htm#_Ref49962709
2006-06-16 04:25:54 · answer #2 · answered by Nutty Girl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a 1960s/1970s film and the bloke starts off with 3 robots but runs one over after he kills off the other crew.... In the end he send the robots off with the trees into deep space and blows up the ship...... Silent Running was the title
2006-06-16 04:09:13 · answer #3 · answered by break 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The actor was Bruce Dern. He was in charge of two large domes in space along with two robots, Hughie and Louie. The two domes contain the last of plants that had been on earth, the earth had become so polluted. When those in power decided to destroy the domes, Dern's role fought to save them. In the end he was to die. The two robots carried on the work. George Lucas got the idea of R2D2 and CP30 from this movie. For the life of me I can remember the name.
2006-06-16 04:19:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definately Silent Running
Silent Running (1972)
Directed by
Douglas Trumbull
Writing credits
Deric Washburn (written by) and
Michael Cimino ...
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Genre: Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi (more)
Tagline: Amazing companions on an incredible adventure... that journeys beyond imagination! (more)
Plot Summary: Lowell Freeman looks after plants in giant space greenhouses. Back on earth, all the trees have long vanished... (more)
User Comments: You Can't Blow Up My Forest (more)
User Rating: 6.7/10 (3,635 votes)
Complete credited cast:
Bruce Dern .... Freeman Lowell
Cliff Potts .... John Keenan
Ron Rifkin .... Marty Barker
Jesse Vint .... Andy Wolf
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Steve Brown .... Drone
Mark Persons .... Drone 2/Huey
Cheryl Sparks .... Drone 1/Dewey
Larry Whisenhunt .... Drone
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Also Known As:
Running Silent (USA) (working title)
Runtime: 89 min
Country: USA
Language: German / English
Color: Color (Technicolor)
Sound Mix: 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) (Westrex Recording System) / Mono (35 mm prints)
Certification: Canada:PG (Ontario) / Australia:PG / Norway:12 / Sweden:15 / UK:U / USA:G / West Germany:12 / Singapore:PG / Canada:PG
Trivia: To keep costs down, Trumbull hired college students for modelmaking and other such special effects work. One of them, John Dykstra, went on to a distinguished special effects career of his own. (more)
Goofs: Continuity: Freeman's damaged leg swaps sides. (more)
Quotes: Anderson: On this first day of a new century we humbly beg forgiveness and dedicate these last forests of our once beautiful nation to the hope that they will one day return and grace our foul earth. Until that day may God bless these gardens and the brave men who care for them. (more)
Awards: 1 nomination (more)
2006-06-16 04:25:30 · answer #5 · answered by Jeff J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Know the one you mean it was made in the seventies and the model was used in the origonal Battlestar Galactrica, the robots were inspiration for artoo deeto in star wars... So date wise that may help...
That helped me find it.
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R2-D2 was partly inspired by the robots Huey, Dewey and Louie from Douglas Trumbull's 1972 film Silent Running.
2006-06-16 04:16:46 · answer #6 · answered by Joey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The title is Silent Running. It was made in1972 and was directed by Douglas Trumbull, stared Bruce Dern as the main character (who is called Freeman Lowell) and included music by Joan Baez. It's a classic hope you enjoy seeing it again!
2006-06-18 09:08:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Silent Running!
2006-06-16 04:08:35 · answer #8 · answered by Pup 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Survival of Spaceship earth(1972).
2006-06-16 04:15:30 · answer #9 · answered by Boeing 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ooooooh, that sounds very sad. I think it is "Silent Running". It sounds a bit like "Solaris" as well and "2001".
Too sad and weird for me, but I hope you find it, as I know what its like to have something on your mind and not be able to resolve it!
2006-06-16 04:15:08 · answer #10 · answered by Suzita 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋