Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Yul Brynner | ... | Gunslinger | |
Richard Benjamin | ... | Peter Martin | |
James Brolin | ... | John Blane | |
Norman Bartold | ... | Medieval Knight | |
Alan Oppenheimer | ... | Chief Supervisor | |
Victoria Shaw | ... | Medieval Queen | |
Dick Van Patten | ... | Banker | |
Linda Gaye Scott | ... | Arlette (as Linda Scott) | |
Steve Franken | ... | Technician | |
Michael T. Mikler | ... | Black Knight (as Michael Mikler) | |
Terry Wilson | ... | Sheriff | |
Majel Barrett | ... | Miss Carrie | |
Anne Randall | ... | Daphne | |
Julie Marcus | ... | Girl in Dungeon | |
Sharyn Wynters | ... | Apache Girl |
An amusement park for rich vacationers, it provides its customers a way to live out their fantasies through the use of robots that provide anything they want. Two of the vacationers choose a wild west adventure. However, after a computer breakdown, they find that they are now being stalked by a rogue robot gunslinger. Written by K. Rose <rcs@texas.net>
A bemusing new future world park for adult vacation come two vacationers friends(Richard Benjamin, James Brolin). The pleasure resort named Delos(like a futuristic Dineyland) is constituted by three fantastic world, the Roman Empire, Dark Age and Western. It's serviced by lifelike robots that provide anything they want. The customers have the opportunity to live several fantasies, but a computer breakdown and the robots are turning against tourists.The starring are suddenly confronted killer robot on impressive and dazzling scenarios.
This Sci-Fi picture made big scale and high budget contains stimulating in parts and is pretty entertaining. Climatic pursuit throughout diverse worlds is chilling mounted and various images seem admirably exciting . A black-suited (the seven magnificent-alike) Yul Brynner is a frightening and cold android gun-slinger who inexorably pursues Richard Benjamin and James Brolin . Appear as secondaries famous television actors: Dick Van Patten(Eight is enough), Majel Barret(Gene Roddenberry wife,Star Trek) and almost extra, Jared Martin(TV War of worlds). Rare and creepy music score by Fred Karlin and atmospheric cinematography by Gene Polito. The motion picture is well written and professionally directed by Michael Crichton during six weeks. Crichton is a famous novelist and screenwriter( Jurassic Park,Congo,Sphere,Andromeda Strain) and occasionally director(Coma,Runaway,First train robbery,Physical evidence).Followed by inferior sequel also produced by Paul Lazarus : Futureworld(1976)directed by Richard T Heffron and with Peter Fonda and Blyte Danner. Plus, a television series titled ¨Beyond Westworld¨ with five episodes where a scientific sending robots around world . Furthermore, ¨Welcome to blood city¨(Peter Sasdy) with similar argument of this one.