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Writers:
Mike Cheda (adaptation)
Joseph Glazner (adaptation)
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Release Date:
August 1979 (USA) more
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Beyond the earth... Beyond the moon... Beyond your wildest imagination!
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Planet Earth is a devastated wasteland, and what's left of humanity has colonized the Moon in domed cities... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Jack Palance ... Omus
Carol Lynley ... Nikki
Barry Morse ... Dr. John Caball
John Ireland ... Senator Smedley
Nicholas Campbell ... Jason Caball
Anne-Marie Martin ... Kim Smedley (as Eddie Benton)
Greg Swanson ... Sparks (voice)

Mark Parr ... Sparks
William Hutt ... Lomax (voice)
Ardon Bess ... Merrick
Lynda Mason Green ... Lunar technician (as Lynn Green)
Albert Humphries ... Robot technician

Bill Lake ... Spacesuited man
Michael Klingbell ... Robot
Jonathan Hartman ... Robot
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Also Known As:
H.G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come (USA) (complete title)
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Runtime:
98 min | UK:94 min
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Brainless Dribble, 8 March 2002
1/10
Author: oigres from Burlington, Ontario

I too, saw this excuse for a movie in theaters expecting it to be a remake of the 1936 classic. Talk about major lunch-bag let down! The only worth while event of sitting through this insult was listening to the wise-cracks and jocularities coming from the audience. Watching Barry Morse (a fine actor) humiliate himself with contortionistic facial expressions related to an attack of hemorrhoids was laughable! Jack Palance(another fine actor)didn't fair any better with his army of robots looking like walking garbage cans! All in all a complete waste of time. Possibly twenty years from now this might become a cult classic or mercifully disappear out of cinematic history!

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