The
Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler (1971)
Thinking persons' sci-fi
Director
- Bob Wynn
Writers - Jay Simms, Tom Rolf
Starring - Leslie Nielsen, Bradford Dillman, James Daly, Angie
Dickinson, Robert J Wilke, Jack Carter, Don Haggerty, Lew
Brown, Richard Shuyler, Dick Simmons, William Bryant, Tristram
Coffin, Peter Mamakos, Ruben Moreno, Steve Cory,
Review by Noel Baily
Pretty good for its day - thought provoking now, three decades
on!
Elements
of COMA and THE SIXTH DAY here, basically the moral, social
and scientific implications behind cloning. Perhaps even more
relevant today given the arguments being bandied about in
the public forum for and against stem-cell research.
Dying
Senator Zachary Wheeler is whisked into a government-funded
and hushed-up medical facility in "no questions asked"
Mexico for "treatment." Reporter Nielsen smells
a story - the "scoop" of the century as it turns
out!
Without
giving too much away, the basic premise turns out to be assembly-line
cloning for random organ donation or whatever spare parts
are needed - remarkably similar in ethical background to the
entire stem-cell debate.
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