Z.P.G
(1972)
Director
- Michael Campus
Writers - Frank De Felitta, Max Ehrlich
Starring
- Oliver Reed, Geraldine Chaplin, Don Gordon, Diane Cilento,
Review by Noel Baily
Zero Plot Growth!
Usually
most any film with Oliver Reed has its moments, even the worst,
and he made some stinkers (LEGEND OF THE WEREWOLF, SPASMS).
This little sci-fi offering about a LOGAN'S RUN type society
where babies are disallowed, animals exist in stuffed form
only and the weekly roast comes out of a tube, just never
engenders any audience interest.
No
ONE particular fault - direction is competent, cinematography
suitably bleak and the cast suitably depressed, just no SOUL
to the thing and inclined towards the so-whattish?
If
you want to see Reed and Chaplin on the run having been way
too naughty one night, then this is the film for you. I carry
a permanent memory of this film in my head as a mini black
and white "trailer" Good companion piece to the
much bigger budgeted but in the upshot, no better, LOGANS
RUN.
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