"Logan’s Run" at 45: Michael York Shares New Tales on Film’s 45th Anniversary

Starting with Michael York already being over 30 at the beginning of the movie...

[quote] Michael York Shares New Tales

I started skimming that piece and didn't see anything 'new' or remarkable.

I felt sorry for his co-star with her unfortunate nose and ugly surname.

Michael York is so ugly. When I was a little kid and he was on TV I’d just trip off of him.

York became famous in the 60s when English fans were swooning over ugly Richard Harris and his footballer's broken nose.

They thought a damaged face equalled hot sex.

Michael York was always ugly and that habit of his of enlarging his eyes made him look like one of those fish.

I saw him in person once and was surprised at how tall he was, I had imagined him to be under 5'8". Still ugly, though.

This movie was a really big deal to us kids in the '70s, though.

I always thought there was a strong homoerotic current between York and Richard Jordan in Logan’s Run.

I found Michael York gorgeous in the 1960s-1970s.

His simian nose messes what would otherwise be an attractive face.

His simian nose went his co-star's upturned nostrils.

He's been rumored to be a closet case. Anyone?

Richard Jordan was gorgeous.

I’m surprised they’re not remaking this. It seems like a good time.

Farrah Fawcett at her most gorgeous.

An actor friend of mine knows him well. he's gay. He has had huge health problems that almost killed him. I am told he's a really nice guy. He so very handsome in Something for Everyone with Angela Lansbury.

Young Michael York was gorgeous in Romeo & Juliet. Even in that costume campfest The Four Musketeers, he's still as beautiful as Geraldine Chaplain (maybe even more). His unconventional good looks were perfect for costume dramas

My mother turned 30 the year it came out, and she was not amused. She already thought it was the end of everything. (She thinks she was ridiculous now, at nearly 81)

I loved LOGAN’S RUN as a kid. Still do. The vision of the future, with people having to go to “carousel“ to die at 30 was an interesting concept.

Farrah’s scenes were some of the most memorable from the film because she was so beautiful, but died tragically. This came out the same year as CHARLIE’S ANGELS (1976), probably before the show’s fall premiere. She wasn’t a big deal yet, or really known at all, when she made the movie. Notice the original trailer doesn’t include her.

I agree R13. Seems like a no-brainer, although it certainly wouldn’t be as fun as the original. The City itself is definitely a character and should be appropriately dressed as such in any remake.

Cheap looking sets. Star Wars came out one year later and looked a million times better than this turd.

Costumes influenced by Halston

I watched Logan's Run for the first time this year, and it was way more fun than Star Wars.

Dallas is credited in the film for the scenes at those waterfalls but weren't they actually shot at the water gardens in downtown Fort Worth? That's what I heard back in the day but "Logan" is not listed on the FWWG website with other films that were shot there.

[quote] The vision of the future, with people having to go to “carousel“ to die at 30 was an interesting concept.

IIRC, in the book, the carousel age was 18! Yikes.

Family Guy's version... Brian's Run.

r24 Close, it was 21 (I cheated and looked it up) Apparently, and of course unsurprisingly, the book is quite different. For example, no Carousel, which was one of the trippiest parts of the film. Instead there is Sleepshop (which frankly, sounds lovely)

In the world of 2116, a person's maximum age is strictly legislated: 21 years, to the day. When people reach this Lastday they report to a Sleepshop in which they are willingly executed via a pleasure-inducing toxic gas. A person's age is revealed by their palm flower crystal embedded in the palm of their right hand that changes color every seven years; yellow (age 0–6), then blue (age 7–13), then red (age 14–20), then blinks red and black on Lastday, and finally turns black at 21.

R25 I love Brian. He is sophisticated yet vulnerable.

I liked the TV series but chiefly because I was in love with Gregory Harrison.

I remember waiting to see this all summer in 1976 and then it finally opened on the North side of Detroit (could never get to the East side where it opened earlier that summer). I was only 10 years old. I had already read the book which was a bit of a struggle because it was really kind of hardcore sci-fi - i.e., boring.

I loved the poster and eventually had the soundtrack. At the screening I saw, the audience burst into applause when FFM’s name appeared in the opening credits so she has already become a thing. There was a lot of nudity in it for a PG film but that was typical in those days.

I never really watched the series though I always thought Gregory Harrison was hot. It looked really cheap, cheaper than the movie. George Lucas must’ve been laughing his ass off when this won Oscars for special effects just weeks before Star Wars opened.

Logan’s Run was sexy - it had the forerunner of Grindr and Tindr (can’t remember what they called it). If they ever remake this they have to focus on the sex, put all the guys in tight compression wear with muscly thighs and gorgeous asses. Emphasis the homoeroticism between Logan and Louis. Focus on the pleasure aspect even more.

Here’s the intro to the tv series which ran a total of 14 episodes from 1977-78.

Here you go, R16. Pauline Kael titled her review of R & J "He came at me in sections" referring to the opening scene of the film with Tybalt in fantastic medieval style.

[quote] "He came at me in sections"

I don't understand that.

I don't either.

You would if you could.

Are you suggesting he has a forward-projecting penis?

[quote] My mother turned 30 the year it came out, and she was not amused. She already thought it was the end of everything. (She thinks she was ridiculous now, at nearly 81)

R17, your math is off. The movie was released 45 years ago, so if your mother turns 81 this year, she turned 36 in 1976.

The fact that people are still talking about it is a testament to how good it was. Incredibly and continuously imaginative SCiFi. Society run by computer, carousel wheel of rebirth, transporters for sex, ice cave escape, Peter Ustinov outside, etc. etc. As for the woman with "the unfortunate name" she starred in an even better film later (or before?): An American Werewolf In London.

[quote] "He came at me in sections"

Does this mean he was one of those intersectionals I keep hearing about?

[quote] The movie was released 45 years ago, so if your mother turns 81 this year, she turned 36 in 1976.

Sounds like mom started lying about her age in her 30s.

[quote] The fact that people are still talking about it is a testament to how good it was.

So that's why Dataloungers still talk about "Female on the Beach"!

R7- Considering that they were BOTH GAY BOYS it’s not surprising.

I remember this movie so clearly as a 13 year-old. All of the main cast were sexy role models, even Jenny Agutter. I discovered the joys of munching Red Vines from that movie. I couldn’t stop eating it while seeing this movie again and again on the big screen. I gasped when Logan dialed up a man by mistake for sex and the guy was like WTF? So much innocence back in the day.

No comments about Michael York wearing a caftan in the movie? You bitches are slipping.

[quote] I gasped when Logan dialed up a man by mistake for sex and the guy was like WTF?

There are no accidents.

But the movie kind of runs out of steam after the ice sequence.

Fathom events should bring Logan's Run back into the theaters.

Totally agree, R45.

I always found Michael York handsome, but I like strange-looking men.

When they leave the city I lose interest in the film.

[quote]Considering that they were BOTH GAY BOYS it’s not surprising.

If only Gregory Harrison had been a gay boy.

R44. Touché.

Wasn’t there an arc in the book of them getting captured by an “Amazon”-esque tribe of women that forced Logan to have sex with woman after woman until he was exhausted and in excruciating pain?

This would make a really good limited-run series. 6-8 episodes or something. It would leave a lot more time for hot naked men.

[quote] tribe of women that forced Logan to have sex with woman after woman until he was exhausted and in excruciating pain?

If not, take Dustin Hoffman's stud scene as a substitute

I'm surprised they didn't stop at the thirtieth.

Death by snu-snu, R52?

That OLDER, BITCHY android - a total DL Queen.

Yeah, in the limited series they need to make it clear that Francis (Richard Jordan) is really crushing on Logan and that's why he won't give up the chase.

[quote]R42 I gasped when Logan dialed up a man by mistake for sex and the guy was like WTF? So much innocence back in the day.

Didn’t the guy give a come hither look and gesture like, “Perhaps?”

It was that dismissive, picky bitch Logan who shook his head and put the kibosh on it.

Michael York ruined Fedora’s life.

I’ll have to watch it again on Blu-ray.

Yes, R59. That's how I remember it.

I re-watched this last night. It hasn’t aged well.

The screenplay isn’t very good. It’s a lot of “Runner!” The dialogue between the sandmen is SO cringe-worthy. (“I saved that one for you, Francis!” or some such rubbish.) And the sandmen are ALL such terrible shots - they have to take aim at runners like 8x before they hit them. Imagine if they were shooting bullets? They’d never hit them.

There’s only one brief scene where Jenny Agutter gets to do anything close to acting - when she and Logan cuddle up in a tree on the outside and she looks at him and says, “Don’t ever let go.” That’s the only moment that comes close to intimacy. (And when she first comes to Logan’s flat, York does not seem at all convincing as any kind of “Lets fuck” Lothario. Though he does look more sexy as Logan gets roughed up throughout the film.)

Ustinov is a treat as the Old Man - showing up the whole enterprise with his light-footed, comic performance. But what actually happens at the end? Logan’s brain (or “associates”) is enough to blow up the whole concourse? Huh? And everyone just progresses to the world outside the dome in an orderly fashion?

The film owes a LOT to Jerry Goldsmith’s score, that’s for sure. I remember as a 10 year old writing to MGM for the sheet music to the Love Theme and months later it showed up in the post, for free. It was called “As We Follow The Sun”. It had words like “…love will grow, as we follow the sun.” I think it started with “Oh, somewhere, there’s a world, for lovers who are lonely. Lovers who are lonely, know where, to find it,” etc. Can’t remember the rest. I used to play it on the piano. :)

^^ “…for lovers only. Lovers who are lonely, know where, to find it.”

Like it matters!

R63- You're such a CRITIC. Calm down.

Logan's Run was never more than a B movie, albeit a FUN B movie.

Also the comical: “Maybe these animal skins will keep us warm!” “Yes but first let’s take our clothes off so they don’t freeze on us!” “Yes!” Jessica completely strips naked. Minutes later they put their clothes back on. Meanwhile she’s padding around in little ankle socks on the frozen ice….

Also the hilarious men doing flips in the Vic Tanny-like health spa in the background while Francis is in the pool. So funny. Ah, the 23rd Century! Apparently they meant the 23rd Century Mall!

R64- Penn Hills FOR LOVERS ONLY you're NEVER LONELY AT PENN HILLS- I always liked those commercials for the Poconos in the late 1970's and early 1980's.

Erm, R65, I am having fun. Fuck off.