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Dramatic music plays with heavy drum noises.
We see shots of a space station.
A caption reads: The next century
A caption reads: Place: The far reaches of outer space
A caption reads: The picture: Silent Running
The music builds.
Images of spaceships containing domes with trees and plant life.
A space convoy on a strange voyage carrying a rare cargo - the forests, the plants, the growing things doomed to extinction on Earth
An astronaut, Lowell, looks through a telescope to view Earth.
Lowell sits at a console with his crewmates listening to the radio.
We have just received orders to abandon and nuclear destruct all the forests...
We see a hand place an explosive device into a container and click a button.
...and return our ships to commercial service.
Lowell sits motionless. A crewmate walks in excitedly.
We're going home!
Lowell wields a spade as a colleague on a 4 wheel device slowly drives towards him.
A dishelleved and fraught Lowell is outraged.
You can't blow up this forest!
An quake causes two of the astronauts to stumble in the space garden.
We see parts of the spaceship start to break and shoot off into space.
Lowell is pushed by a fellow astronaut.
As they roll around, fighting each other we see more of the spaceship start to disintegrate and make loud crashing noises
The spaceship launches with a tail of bright light.
Lowell gains the upper hand and starts to choke his rival.
We see one of the domes explode.
Cataclysm in outer space.
A clock counts down from eleven seconds.
Lowell interacts with a computer console.
Every moment bringing its own danger as man explores the mysteries of an unknown and limitless universe.
We see a bright light in space disppear behind a planet.
A voice comes from the radio.
Valley Forge, Valley Forge, what the hell's wrong? You're moving out, you're accelerating!
A panicked Lowell replies.
I've got a premature detonation on Dome number 2 and I've got an explosion in the main cargo deck now please advise me immediately!
We see the spacecraft passing beside a planet.
Small numbered robots shepherd cargo as they walk inside the spacecraft.
Barker.
I can't find Barker! I can't find Wolf or Keenan either hopefully or I'm afraid Neal that they might have been in Dome number 2.
Lowell staggers and collapses to the floor.
A small robot enters the room.
Tell number one!
Lowell is sat wearing a poker visor playing cards with two robots.
Meet the almost human drones. Amazing companions on a journey beyond the stars.
The robot holds cards in it's hand and lays them on the table.
Lowell begins to laugh.
The man has a full house and he knew it! Now how about that!
A view of the dome from space.
A folk song by Joan Baez begins to play. It is calm and gentle.
Lowell stands in the dome and holds out his arm which a bird of prey lands on.
Here Joan Baez sing "Rejoice in the Sun" and "Silent Running"
Lowell slowly walks through the dome.
A robot with it's light on walks in the dome.
Lowell sits listening to the radio.
Listen, Lowell if you continue as is we figure you'll hit the north eastern quadrant of Saturn's outer ring tomorrow morning.
The spaceship drifts towards Saturn.
Lowell lies resting in bed. He is disturbed by objects falling from the wall and ceiling. The spaceship is shaking.
The music becomes ominous then swells.
Another explosion occurs. Lowell struggles to make his way towards the main console.
The music becomes very dramatic.
The robots walk in a line.
We see another big explosion.
Loud explosion noises.
Various shots of the spaceship and space itself.
The music becomes more truimphant.
A caption reads: Bruce Dern with Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jessie Vint. Original songs sung by Joan Baez.
A caption reads: Silent Running.
Arrow Video
In 1968, visual effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull (The Andromeda Strain, Close Encounters of the Third Kind) contributed to the ground-breaking special photographic effects of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Four years later, he stamped his own indelible mark on the science fiction genre with his mesmerising directorial debut - Silent Running.
In the not-so-distant future, Earth is barren of all flora and fauna, with what remains of the planet's former ecosystems preserved aboard a fleet of greenhouses orbiting in space. When the crews are ordered to destroy the remaining specimens, one botanist, Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern, The 'Burbs), rebels and flees towards Saturn in a desperate bid to preserve his own little piece of Earth that was, accompanied only by the ship's three service robots.
Featuring a captivating central performance by Dern, visual effects that rival anything in 2001 and a powerful ecological message, Silent Running is a haunting and prescient sci-fi classic that resonates even more strongly today than it did at the time of its original release.
Product Features
- Brand new 4K restoration by Arrow Films from the original camera negative
- 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
- Original lossless mono audio
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Audio commentary by critics Kim Newman and Barry Forshaw
- Original audio commentary by Douglas Trumbull and actor Bruce Dern
- Isolated music and effects track
- No Turning Back - an interview with film music historian Jeff Bond on the film's score
- First Run - a visual essay by writer and filmmaker Jon Spira exploring the evolution of Silent Running's screenplay
- The Making of Silent Running - an archival 1972 on-set documentary
- Silent Running by Douglas Trumbull and Douglas Trumbull: Then and Now - two archival interviews with the film's director
- A Conversation with Bruce Dern - an archival interview with the film's lead actor
- Theatrical trailer
- Extensive behind-the-scenes gallery
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Arik Roper
- FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring writing on the film by Barry Forshaw and Peter Tonguette
- Arrow Video
- 90 mins approx
- U
- 1.85:1
- English
- 1
- Arrow Video
- Douglas Trumbull
- Bruce Dern
- Cliff Potts
- Ron Rifkin
- English SDH
- 1972
- A
- B
- C
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Dramatic music plays with heavy drum noises.
We see shots of a space station.
A caption reads: The next century
A caption reads: Place: The far reaches of outer space
A caption reads: The picture: Silent Running
The music builds.
Images of spaceships containing domes with trees and plant life.
A space convoy on a strange voyage carrying a rare cargo - the forests, the plants, the growing things doomed to extinction on Earth
An astronaut, Lowell, looks through a telescope to view Earth.
Lowell sits at a console with his crewmates listening to the radio.
We have just received orders to abandon and nuclear destruct all the forests...
We see a hand place an explosive device into a container and click a button.
...and return our ships to commercial service.
Lowell sits motionless. A crewmate walks in excitedly.
We're going home!
Lowell wields a spade as a colleague on a 4 wheel device slowly drives towards him.
A dishelleved and fraught Lowell is outraged.
You can't blow up this forest!
An quake causes two of the astronauts to stumble in the space garden.
We see parts of the spaceship start to break and shoot off into space.
Lowell is pushed by a fellow astronaut.
As they roll around, fighting each other we see more of the spaceship start to disintegrate and make loud crashing noises
The spaceship launches with a tail of bright light.
Lowell gains the upper hand and starts to choke his rival.
We see one of the domes explode.
Cataclysm in outer space.
A clock counts down from eleven seconds.
Lowell interacts with a computer console.
Every moment bringing its own danger as man explores the mysteries of an unknown and limitless universe.
We see a bright light in space disppear behind a planet.
A voice comes from the radio.
Valley Forge, Valley Forge, what the hell's wrong? You're moving out, you're accelerating!
A panicked Lowell replies.
I've got a premature detonation on Dome number 2 and I've got an explosion in the main cargo deck now please advise me immediately!
We see the spacecraft passing beside a planet.
Small numbered robots shepherd cargo as they walk inside the spacecraft.
Barker.
I can't find Barker! I can't find Wolf or Keenan either hopefully or I'm afraid Neal that they might have been in Dome number 2.
Lowell staggers and collapses to the floor.
A small robot enters the room.
Tell number one!
Lowell is sat wearing a poker visor playing cards with two robots.
Meet the almost human drones. Amazing companions on a journey beyond the stars.
The robot holds cards in it's hand and lays them on the table.
Lowell begins to laugh.
The man has a full house and he knew it! Now how about that!
A view of the dome from space.
A folk song by Joan Baez begins to play. It is calm and gentle.
Lowell stands in the dome and holds out his arm which a bird of prey lands on.
Here Joan Baez sing "Rejoice in the Sun" and "Silent Running"
Lowell slowly walks through the dome.
A robot with it's light on walks in the dome.
Lowell sits listening to the radio.
Listen, Lowell if you continue as is we figure you'll hit the north eastern quadrant of Saturn's outer ring tomorrow morning.
The spaceship drifts towards Saturn.
Lowell lies resting in bed. He is disturbed by objects falling from the wall and ceiling. The spaceship is shaking.
The music becomes ominous then swells.
Another explosion occurs. Lowell struggles to make his way towards the main console.
The music becomes very dramatic.
The robots walk in a line.
We see another big explosion.
Loud explosion noises.
Various shots of the spaceship and space itself.
The music becomes more truimphant.
A caption reads: Bruce Dern with Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jessie Vint. Original songs sung by Joan Baez.
A caption reads: Silent Running.
Arrow Video
In 1968, visual effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull (The Andromeda Strain, Close Encounters of the Third Kind) contributed to the ground-breaking special photographic effects of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Four years later, he stamped his own indelible mark on the science fiction genre with his mesmerising directorial debut - Silent Running.
In the not-so-distant future, Earth is barren of all flora and fauna, with what remains of the planet's former ecosystems preserved aboard a fleet of greenhouses orbiting in space. When the crews are ordered to destroy the remaining specimens, one botanist, Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern, The 'Burbs), rebels and flees towards Saturn in a desperate bid to preserve his own little piece of Earth that was, accompanied only by the ship's three service robots.
Featuring a captivating central performance by Dern, visual effects that rival anything in 2001 and a powerful ecological message, Silent Running is a haunting and prescient sci-fi classic that resonates even more strongly today than it did at the time of its original release.
Product Features
- Brand new 4K restoration by Arrow Films from the original camera negative
- 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
- Original lossless mono audio
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Audio commentary by critics Kim Newman and Barry Forshaw
- Original audio commentary by Douglas Trumbull and actor Bruce Dern
- Isolated music and effects track
- No Turning Back - an interview with film music historian Jeff Bond on the film's score
- First Run - a visual essay by writer and filmmaker Jon Spira exploring the evolution of Silent Running's screenplay
- The Making of Silent Running - an archival 1972 on-set documentary
- Silent Running by Douglas Trumbull and Douglas Trumbull: Then and Now - two archival interviews with the film's director
- A Conversation with Bruce Dern - an archival interview with the film's lead actor
- Theatrical trailer
- Extensive behind-the-scenes gallery
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Arik Roper
- FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring writing on the film by Barry Forshaw and Peter Tonguette
- Arrow Video
- 90 mins approx
- U
- 1.85:1
- English
- 1
- Arrow Video
- Douglas Trumbull
- Bruce Dern
- Cliff Potts
- Ron Rifkin
- English SDH
- 1972
- A
- B
- C
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Moving
Pretty simple but very moving sci-fi tale. The 4k edition does the production justice. Bruce Dern is a treasure !
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A gorgeous presentation of a dated Sci-fi
Some parts of this film is absolutely ridiculous... but I was kind of entertained.
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A science fiction classic
It is a film in which the message takes precedence over any other aspect (it is of such importance that it would be enough on its own) but that does not stop it from being entertaining.
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