Overview: Across a forty-year career, Richard Fleischer directed classic movies in almost every decade he was working: from the epic swashbuckling of The Vikings, to the psychological chills of 10 Rillington Place ... and, of course, Soylent Green: a dystopian science-fiction thriller with a venomous sting in its tail.

In a frighteningly prescient world of overpopulation and ecological collapse, resources are scarce. While the elite live in spacious, walled-off communities eating natural food and drinking clean water, the masses live in squalor, collecting water from communal taps and eating highly processed food wafers made by the Soylent Corporation. Soylent Red and Soylent Yellow are a staple, but now there’s a tastier and more nutritious option: Soylent Green.

When a member of the Soylent Corporation’s board is murdered, Detective Robert Thorn (Charlton Heston, Ben Hur) is called in to investigate. His search for answers will lead to a shocking discovery. The final entry in a trilogy of dystopian sci-fi classics starring Charlton Heston - following Planet of the Apes and The Omega Man - Soylent Green is a devastating vision of humanity on the brink, once seen, never forgotten.

4K Blu-ray Verdict: In 2022, Earth is overpopulated and totally polluted; the natural resources have exhausted, and the nourishment of the population is supplied by the Soylent Industries, a food made by plankton from the oceans. In New York, when the Soylent’s member of the board William R. Simonson (Joseph Cotton) is murdered apparently by a burglar at the Chelsea Towers West where he lives, the efficient Detective Thorn (Charlton Heston) is assigned to investigate the case with his partner Solomon Sol Roth (Edward G. Robinson).

Thorn comes to the fancy apartment and meets Simonson’s bodyguard Tab Fielding (Chuck Connors) and the furniture (woman that is rented together with the flat) Shirl (Leigh Taylor-Young) and the detective concludes that the executive was not victim of burglary but executed. Further, he finds that the Governor Santini (Whit Bissell) and other powerful men want to disrupt and end his investigation. But Thorn continues his work and discovers that the oceans have exhausted and the bizarre and disturbing secret of the ingredient used to manufacture Soylent Green.

Soylent Green is one of the best sci-fi ever made and a film that has not aged. On the contrary, when I saw it in the movie theater in 1973, it was another good film with catastrophic view of the future. Along the years, I have seen this film on VHS at least four more times and every time that I see it, I find it better and better.

It is impressive how the writer Harry Harrison was capable to foresee the future in 1966 with pollution, overpopulation and menace of exhaustion of the natural resources and write his novel Make Room! Make Room! In those years, the concept of ecology did not exist, at least the same way in the present days. The grim view of the cannibalism to fee the population introduced by Stanley R. Greenberg in the screenplay fortunately has not been achieved yet.

In closing, Soylent Green is also the film number 101 in the career of the unforgettable actor Edward G. Robinson that was with cancer and almost deaf during the shooting and died two weeks after the conclusion of this film. This incredible 4K UHD Blu-Ray has in the extras a tribute to this great actor; and deservedly so.

4K ULTRA HD LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:
Brand new 4K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative by Arrow Films
4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) Original lossless mono audio
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Archive audio commentary with director Richard Fleischer and star Leigh Taylor-Young
Brand new audio commentary with film historian Michael Brooke and author Johnny Mains
Charlton Heston at the BFI, an archive on-stage interview with the star of Soylent Green
Richard Fleisher at the BFl, an archive onstage interview with the director of Soylent Green
A Look at the World of Soylent Green, a vintage featurette
MGM’s Tribute to Edward G. Robinson’s 101st Film, a vintage featurette
Theatrical trailer
Image galleries
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Nathanael Marsh
Collectors’ booklet featuring new writing by Frank Collins and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

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