THX 1138
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Date: January 01, 1971 to December 31, 1971
Dates Note: 1971
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United States
Place of Origin: United States
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Color: Color
Silent: No
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Francis Ford Coppola and 50 Years of American Zoetrope Description:
Francis Ford Coppola was only thirty when he opened his own independent production company, American Zoetrope, in 1969; its debut was a low-budget, dystopian science fiction film directed by another young Bay Area director: George Lucas. Robert Duvall stars as a rebel in a future where sex is illegal, robots are everywhere, and television monitors keep the populace both sedated and eternally monitored. More 1984 than Star Wars, fascinating as a glimpse into Lucas’s early talents, THX 1138 also serves as a screen history of Bay Area transit, with locales including the Caldecott Tunnel, the Posey Tube, and the then-unfinished BART tunnel under the Bay.
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