Name of Sixties Sci Fi Film?!


Question: Name of Sixties Sci Fi Film!?
Does anyone remember the name of a sixties sci fi film!. It featured a people who lived underground and were too scared to go to the surface!. There was a chap called 'Michael' who was used to police the people in case of trouble!. I seem to remember it was all a bit far out & psychedelic but cant remember the name, all info welcomeWww@Enter-QA@Com


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This is Logas Run
The Earth has been ruined by something in the distant past-- war, plague, ecological disaster, it is never revealed!. The remains of humanity have lived within a domed city, unaware of the condition of the outside or the origin of their own living conditions; to them, the city is and always has been the entire world!.

To maintain the internal balance of the city, both reproduction and death are carefully controlled by a monolithic master computer!. The only sex is loveless and nymphomaniacal; there are no relationships, no wives or husbands, only "the circuit" where you can obtain a temporary sex partner, as well as orgy rooms, filled with clouds of narcotic gas!. Babies are born in glass boxes; their right hand is implanted with a small crystal which acts as a clock!. At age 30, the crystal flashes red, and the bearer must report for a ceremony where he is told he is "renewed" but is in fact incinerated!. Those who wish to avoid the 30-year-limit must become what is called a "runner!." Runners are considered criminals, and hunted by policemen known as "sandmen!."

Logan (Peter York) is a sandman who meets a young woman named Jessica (Jenny Agutter)!. Jessica seems strange to Logan!. She refuses his typical sexual advances, and seems to harbor hidden beliefs that something is terribly wrong with the way the city is run and the way that the people live together and relate to one another!. Later, we learn she belongs to a secret heretical society that believes in a place known as "Sanctuary" where people can live beyond the 30-year limit and engage in meaningful, monogamous relationships!. The key to accessing Sanctuary is a small device known as an Ankh; Jessica wears one around her neck, unaware of its purpose!.

One day Logan kills a runner who is in possession of an Ankh!. When Logan checks in at the end of his patrol, the master computer recognizes the significance of the Ankh and instructs Logan to go undercover, find Sanctuary, and kill all the runners he finds there!. To go undercover, the computer overrides Logan's implanted crystal so that it begins to flash red, and he is suddenly forced to become a runner himself!.

Remembering the Ankh around Jessica's neck, Logan attempts to convince Jessica that he wishes to find Sanctuary, and she agrees to help him!. Logan and Jessica then flee the city, pursued by a sandman named Francis (Richard Jordan), who is unaware of his colleague's undercover mission!. After a close call with a homicidal robot named Box (who captures runners and recycles them as food to feed the population of the city), Logan and Jessica find a way to exit the domed city, and discover the Earth outside!. Francis follows at a distance!.

The Earth has healed since the disaster!. Once outside the city, they find animals, rivers, and see the sun for the very first time!. The crystals in their hands stop functioning and turn clear; Jessica and Logan interpret this as indicating they are no longer bound by the rules of the city and its 30-year limit!. They fall in love, and Logan abandons his secret mission!. But there are no other people, not even other runners!.

They explore, and find their way to the overgrown ruins of Washington D!.C!. (shown on screen with award-winning post-apocalyptic special effects)!. When they discover the Lincoln Memorial, they are confused by Lincoln's appearance; "That must be what it looks like to grow old," Logan says!. Searching for signs of life, they find only a single white-bearded old man (Peter Ustinov) and his many cats!. The old man has no crystal in his hand whatsoever, not even a clear one!.

Logan decides that the master computer has made a terrible mistake, and the inhabitants of the domed city are living a lie!. He determines to tell them!. Before they can act, however, they are discovered by Francis!. Francis will not listen to them!. They fight to the death; Logan kills him by bludgeoning him with an American flag!.

They then set out for the domed city, bringing the old man with them!. They leave the old man waiting outside while they infiltrate the city once more, planning to bring the populations back out to see him for themselves!. They fail; not only do the people ignore the news, but sandmen come and arrest them!.

The city's master computer attempts to interrogate Logan using some kind of memory probe and becomes confused and overloaded by the memories it finds!. Seeing his chance, Logan escapes and destroys the computer, causing a chain reaction that wreaks havoc thoughout the entire city!. The populations flee the explosions and come outside, where they finally see the sun and encounter the old man!. They will now grow old, and mankind is freed from its illusory idyllic existence!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

I would guess at Logans Run!. There are people living underground and they have a jewel in the palm of their hand!. When it changes colour they are supposed to be "resurrected" (but really were being chopped up by a giant fan) to keep the population down and to ensure there were no old people! Logan was a police officer of sorts whose job was to make sure people complied with this and chase them down if they decided to run for it when their jewel changed colour!. The film is him running away when his jewel changes colour and he discovers the truth behind the "resurrection" farce! xx dun dun dar!!!Www@Enter-QA@Com

Sounds like Logans runWww@Enter-QA@Com

Logan's Run was made during the 70s, folks!Www@Enter-QA@Com

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