Soylent Green trailer (dir: Richard Fleischer, 1973)

Soylent Green is a 1973 science fiction movie depicting a dystopian future in which overpopulation leads to depleted resources, which in turn leads to widespread unemployment and poverty. Real fruit, vegetables and meat are rare, expensive commodities, and much of the population survives on processed food rations, including "soylent green" wafers.

The film overlays the science fiction and police procedural genres as it depicts the efforts of New York City police detective Robert Thorn (Charlton Heston) and elderly police researcher Sol Roth (Edward G. Robinson) to investigate the brutal murder of a wealthy businessman named William R. Simonson (Joseph Cotten). Thorn and Roth uncover clues which suggest that it is more than simply a bungled burglary.

The film, which is loosely based upon the 1966 science fiction novel Make Room! Make Room!, by Harry Harrison, won the Nebula Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film in 1973. (Wikipedia)

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Film & Animation

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• soylent
• green
• Charlton
• Heston
• Leigh
• Taylor-Young
• Edward
• G.
• Robinson
• richard
• fleischer
• science
• fiction

[alengard77]

WHAT-IS-THE-SECRET-OF-SOYLENT-­GREENE

cool voice, man! xD 70's trailers were sooo cool :D

[ledbetterkilla]

I'm glad the FDA finally approved Soylent Green..............It's WHAT WE NEED

[TheRacistsMustDie]

What is Soylent Green? Well it's money of course.

[haylow42]

I feel like this trailer basically gives away the majority of the plot. Its kind of easy to figure out what Soylent Green is by watching this.

[alengard77]

@alengard77 I wrote it wrong LOL so I deleted it and post it again :P

[daisy75677567]

The secret is when you die, they take your body( because it has all the minerals a person needs to survive) and they take it to this plant where they turn it into the green pills you take to live that us why it is life and death because all other recourses are gone

[angelinajoanie]

Corny trailer but excellent movie.

[RJRanke]

Interesting how in this film,the last movie Edward G.Robinson was in before his death,that Robinson's final scene was a death scene.