A trio of scientists plan to create a self-replicating, immortal, hermaphrodite using the Final Programme developed by a Nobel Prize-winning dead scientist.
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Title: The Final Programme (1973)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Jon Finch | ... | Jerry Cornelius | |
| Jenny Runacre | ... | Miss Brunner | |
| Sterling Hayden | ... | Maj. Wrongway Lindbergh | |
| Harry Andrews | ... | John | |
| Hugh Griffith | ... | Professor Hira | |
| Julie Ege | ... | Miss Dazzle | |
| Patrick Magee | ... | Dr. Baxter | |
| Graham Crowden | ... | Dr. Smiles | |
| George Coulouris | ... | Dr. Powys | |
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Basil Henson | ... | Dr. Lucas |
| Derrick O'Connor | ... | Frank | |
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Gilles Millinaire | ... | Dimitri |
| Ronald Lacey | ... | Shades | |
| Sandy Ratcliff | ... | Jenny (as Sandy Ratcliffe) | |
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Mary MacLeod | ... | Nurse (as Mary Macleod) |
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After the death of his Nobel Prize-winning father, billionaire physicist Jerry Cornelius becomes embroiled in the search for the mysterious "Final Programme", developed by his father. The programme, a design for a perfect, self-replicating human being, is contained on microfilm. A group of scientists, led by the formidable Miss Brunner (who consumes her lovers), has sought Cornelius's help in obtaining it. After a chase across a war-torn Europe on the verge of anarchy, Brunner and Cornelius obtain the microfilm from Jerry's loathsome brother Frank. They proceed to an abandoned underground Nazi fortress in the Arctic to run the programme, with Jerry and Miss Brunner as the subjects. Written by Bernard Keane <BKeane2@email.dot.gov.au>
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August 1974 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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A shortened version of the film first released as The Final Programme, from Michael Moorcock's novel of that name. Jerry Cornelius is the perfect universal hero/anti-hero in a disintegrating world. His search for his father's invention involves him with his mad brother Frank and the sinister programmer, Miss Brunner. The acting is over the top (one reviewer described it as "rug-chewing"), hip, and outrageous. The flip, self-mocking style owes a great deal to The Avengers, The Prisoner, and possibly even the Beatles.