Details

Release year: 1972

Storyline

In a future where all flora are extinct on Earth, an astronaut is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's plant samples, kept in a greenhouse aboard a spacecraft.

Top credits

Directors

Douglas Trumbull

Writers

Cast

Bruce Dern — Freeman Lowell
Cliff Potts — John Keenan
Ron Rifkin — Marty Barker
Jesse Vint — Andy Wolf

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Did you know

• To keep costs down, Trumbull hired college students for modelmaking and other such special effects work. One of them, John Dykstra, went on to a distinguished special effects career of his own.

• Douglas Trumbull says that he learned how to be a director while working on this film, as he had no training or experience in the job.

• The decommissioned Essex-class aircraft carrier "Valley Forge," a veteran of Korea and Vietnam, served as the interior of the space freighter "Valley Forge." The flight control area and hangar deck of the carrier were modified and painted to represent the space freighter in the film. The carrier was scrapped after filming was complete.