Science Fiction 1970-1979 - 100 Years of Movie Posters - 58

A Chronology of Science Fiction Movie Posters 1970-1979.

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Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) Directed by Ted Post. 95mins.

James Franciscus - Brent
Kim Hunter - Zira
Maurice Evans - Dr. Zaius
Linda Harrison - Nova
Paul Richards - Mendez
Victor Buono - Fat Man
James Gregory - Ursus
Charlton Heston - Taylor

IMDB rating 6.1

Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) Directed by Joseph Sargent. 100mins.

Eric Braeden - Dr. Charles Forbin
Susan Clark - Dr. Cleo Markham
Gordon Pinsent - The President
William Schallert - CIA Director Grauber
Robert Cornthwaite - First Scientist
James Hong - Dr. Chin

IMDB rating 7.1

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The Andromeda Strain (1971) Directed by Robert Wise. 131mins.

Arthur Hill - Dr. Jeremy Stone
David Wayne - Dr. Charles Dutton
James Olson - Dr. Mark Hall
Kate Reid - Dr. Ruth Leavitt
Paula Kelly - Karen Anson
George Mitchell - Jackson

IMDB rating 7.2

THX 1138 (1971) Directed by George Lucas. 86mins (88mins)

Robert Duvall - THX
Donald Pleasence - SEN
Don Pedro Colley - SRT
Maggie McOmie - LUH
Ian Wolfe - PTO
Marshall Efron - TWA

IMDB rating 6.8

A Clockwork Orange (1971) Directed by Stanley Kubrick. 136mins.

Malcolm McDowell - Alex
Patrick Magee - Mr Alexander
Michael Bates - Chief Guard
Warren Clarke - Dim
Adrienne Corri - Mrs. Alexander
Philip Stone - Dad
Aubrey Morris - Deltoid
Steven Berkoff - Det. Const. Tom
David Prowse - Julian

Nominated for 4 Oscars - Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Film Editing

IMDB rating 8.5

The Omega Man (1971) Directed by Boris Sagal. 98mins.

Charlton Heston - Neville
Anthony Zerbe - Matthias
Rosalind Cash - Lisa
Paul Koslo - Dutch
Eric Laneuville - Richie
Lincoln Kilpatrick - Zachary

IMDB rating 6.6

Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) Directed by Don Taylor. 98mins.

Roddy McDowall - Cornelius
Kim Hunter - Zira
Bradford Dillman - Dr. Lewis Dixon
Natalie Trundy - Dr. Stephanie Branton
Eric Braeden - Dr. Otto Hasslein
Ricardo Montalban - Armando
William Windom - The President
Sal Mineo - Milo

IMDB rating 6.2

Silent Running (1972) Directed by Douglas Trumbull. 89mins.

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

IMDB rating 6.7

Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) Directed by George Roy Hill. 104mins.

Michael Sacks - Billy Pilgrim
Ron Leibman - Paul Lazzaro
Eugene Roche - Edgar Derby
Sharon Gans - Valencia Merble Pilgrim
Valerie Perrine - Montana Wildhack
Holly Near - Barbara Pilgrim
Perry King - Robert Pilgrim

IMDB rating 7.0

Solaris (1972) Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. 167mins.

Natalya Bondarchuk - Hari
Donatas Banionis - Kris Kelvin
Jüri Järvet - Dr. Snaut
Vladislav Dvorzhetsky - Henri Berton
Nikolay Grinko - Kelvin's Father
Anatoliy Solonitsyn - Dr. Sartorius

IMDB rating 8.0

Z.P.G. (1972) alternative title Zero Population Growth. Directed by Michael Campus. 97mins.

Oliver Reed - Russ McNeil
Geraldine Chaplin - Carol McNeil
Don Gordon - George Borden
Diane Cilento - Edna Borden

IMDB rating 5.5

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) Directed by J. Lee Thompson. 88mins.

Roddy McDowall - Caesar
Don Murray - Breck
Natalie Trundy - Lisa
Hari Rhodes - MacDonald
Severn Darden - Kolp
Lou Wagner - Busboy

IMDB rating 5.9

Soylent Green (1973) Directed by Richard Fleischer. 97mins.

Charlton Heston - Detective Thorn
Edward G. Robinson - Sol Roth
Leigh Taylor-Young - Shirl
Chuck Connors - Tab Fielding
Joseph Cotten - William R. Simonson
Brock Peters - Chief Hatcher

IMDB rating 7.0

Westworld (1973) Directed by Michael Crichton. 88mins.

Yul Brynner - Gunslinger
Richard Benjamin - Peter Martin
James Brolin - John Blane
Alan Oppenheimer - Chief Supervisor
Dick Van Patten - Banker
Majel Barrett - Miss Carrie

IMDB rating 7.1

Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) Directed by J. Lee Thompson. 93mins (96mins)

Roddy McDowall - Caesar
Claude Akins - Aldo
Natalie Trundy - Lisa
Severn Darden - Kolp
Lew Ayres - Mandemus
Paul Williams - Virgil
Austin Stoker - MacDonald

IMDB rating 5.2

Zardoz (1974) Directed by John Boorman. 105mins.

Sean Connery - Zed
Charlotte Rampling - Consuella
Sara Kestelman - May
John Alderton - Friend
Sally Anne Newton - Avalow
Niall Buggy - Arthur Frayn

IMDB rating 5.7

Flesh Gordon (1974) Directed by Howard Ziehm. 90mins.

Jason Williams - Flesh Gordon
Suzanne Fields - Dale Ardor
Joseph Hudgins - Dr. Flexi Jerkoff
William Hunt - Emperor Wang
Lance Larsen - Prince Precious
John Hoyt - Professor Gordon

IMDB rating 4.3

Dark Star (1974) Directed by John Carpenter. 83mins.

Brian Narelle - Lt. Doolittle
Dan O'Bannon - Sgt. Pinback
Cal Kuniholm - Boiler
Dre Pahich - Talby

IMDB rating 6.5

Death Race 2000 (1975) Directed by Paul Bartel. 80mins.

David Carradine - Frankenstein
Simone Griffeth - Annie Smith
Sylvester Stallone - Machine Gun Joe Viterbo
Mary Woronov - Calamity Jane
Roberta Collins - Matilda the Hun
Martin Kove - Nero the Hero

IMDB rating 6.2

Rollerball (1975) Directed by Norman Jewison. 125mins.

James Caan - Jonathan E.
John Houseman - Bartholomew
Maud Adams - Ella
John Beck - Moonpie
Moses Gunn - Cletus
Pamela Hensley - Mackie
Barbara Trentham - Daphne
Ralph Richardson - Librarian

IMDB rating 6.5

A Boy and his Dog (1975) Directed by L.Q. Jones. 91mins.

Don Johnson - Vic
Susanne Benton - Quilla June Holmes
Jason Robards - Lou Craddock
Alvy Moore - Doctor Moore
Charles McGraw - Preacher
Tim McIntire - Blood (voice)

IMDB rating 6.6

The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) Directed by Nicolas Roeg. 139mins.

David Bowie - Thomas Jerome Newton
Rip Torn - Nathan Bryce
Candy Clark - Mary-Lou
Buck Henry - Oliver Farnsworth
Bernie Casey - Peters
Jackson D. Kane - Professor Canutti

IMDB rating 6.7

Futureworld (1976) Directed by Richard T. Heffron. 108mins.

Peter Fonda - Chuck Browning
Blythe Danner - Tracy Ballard
Arthur Hill - Duffy
Yul Brynner - The Gunslinger
John P. Ryan - Dr. Schneider
Stuart Margolin - Harry

IMDB rating 5.8

Logan's Run (1976) Directed by Michael Anderson. 119mins.

Michael York - Logan 5
Richard Jordan - Francis 7
Jenny Agutter - Jessica 6
Roscoe Lee Browne - Box
Farrah Fawcett - Holly
Michael Anderson Jr. - Doc
Peter Ustinov - Old Man

Nominated for 3 Oscars winning 1 - Best Visual Effects

IMDB rating 6.8

The Food of the Gods (1976) Directed by Bert I.Gordon. 88mins.

Marjoe Gortner - Morgan
Pamela Franklin - Lorna
Ralph Meeker - Bensington
Jon Cypher - Brian
Ida Lupino - Mrs. Skinner
Belinda Balaski - Rita

IMDB rating 3.8

Empire of the Ants (1977) Directed by Bert I.Gordon. 89mins.

Joan Collins - Marilyn Fryser
Robert Lansing - Dan Stokely
John David Carson - Joe Morrison
Albert Salmi - Sheriff Art Kincade
Jacqueline Scott - Margaret Ellis
Pamela Shoop - Coreen Bradford

IMDB rating 3.4

Kingdom of the Spiders (1977) Directed by John 'Bud' Carlos. 97mins.

William Shatner - Dr. Robert Hansen
Tiffany Bolling - Diane Ashley
Woody Strode - Walter Colby
Lieux Dressler - Emma Washburn
David McLean - Sheriff Gene Smith
Natasha Ryan - Linda Hansen

IMDB rating 5.8

The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977) Directed by Don Taylor. 99mins.

Burt Lancaster - Dr. Paul Moreau
Michael York - Andrew Braddock
Nigel Davenport - Montgomery
Barbara Carrera - Maria
Richard Basehart - Sayer of the Law
Nick Cravat - M'Ling

IMDB rating 5.7

Demon Seed (1977) Directed by Donald Cammell. 94mins.

Julie Christie - Susan Harris
Fritz Weaver - Alex Harris
Gerrit Graham - Walter Gabler
Berry Kroeger - Petrosian
Lisa Lu - Soong Yen
Robert Vaughn - Proteus IV (voice)

IMDB rating 6.3

Damnation Alley (1977) Directed by Jack Smight. 91mins.

Jan-Michael Vincent - Tanner
George Peppard - Maj. Eugene Denton
Dominique Sanda - Janice
Paul Winfield - Keegan
Jackie Earle Haley - Billy
Kip Niven - Lt. Tom Perry

IMDB rating 5.0

Star Wars (1977) Directed by George Lucas. 121mins (125mins)

Mark Hamill - Luke Skywalker
Harrison Ford - Han Solo
Carrie Fisher - Princess Leia Organa
Peter Cushing - Grand Moff Tarkin
Alec Guinness - Obi-Wan 'Ben' Kenobi
Anthony Daniels - C-3PO
Kenny Baker - R2-D2
Peter Mayhew - Chewbacca
David Prowse - Darth Vader
James Earl Jones - Darth Vader (voice)

Nominated for 10 Oscars winning 7 including Best Music (John Williams) Best Visual Effects and a Special Achievement Award for Best Sound Effects

IMDB rating 8.8

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) Directed by Steven Spielberg. 135mins (132mins sp.ed) (137mins dir.cut)

Richard Dreyfuss - Roy Neary
Francois Truffaut - Claude Lacombe
Teri Garr - Ronnie Neary
Melinda Dillon - Jillian Guiler
Bob Balaban - David Laughlin
J. Patrick McNamara - Project Leader
Cary Guffey - Barry Guiler

Nominated for 9 Oscars winning 2 - Best Cinematography and Best Sound Effects Editing

IMDB rating 7.8