Welcome to Blood City
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Directed by | Peter Sasdy |
Written by | Michael Winder Stephen Schneck |
Starring | Jack Palance Keir Dullea Samantha Eggar |
Cinematography | Reginald H. Morris |
Edited by | Keith Palmer |
Music by | Roy Budd |
Production companies | EMI Films Stanley Chase Productions |
Release date | 23 August 1977 |
Running time | 96 mins. |
Countries | Canada[1] United Kingdom[2] |
Language | English |
Box office | $CAD900,000 |
Welcome to Blood City is a 1977 science fiction Western film directed by Peter Sasdy and starring Jack Palance, Keir Dullea and Samantha Eggar.[3][4]
Premise[]
Five strangers awake finding themselves with no memory in a world resembling the wild west. Their task is to become exempt from being killed – what the townspeople refer to as being "immortal" – by killing twenty of the other inhabitants of the town under the scrutiny of the sheriff (Jack Palance), otherwise they will spend their lives in slavery.
Cast[]
- Jack Palance as Frendlander
- Keir Dullea as Lewis
- Samantha Eggar as Katherine
- Barry Morse as Supervisor
- Hollis McLaren as Martine
- Chris Wiggins as Gellor
Production[]
Shot in Cinespace Film Studios in Kleinburg, a village north of Toronto, Welcome to Blood City was an early Canada/U.K. tax-shelter co-production.
References[]
- ^ "Welcome to Blood City (1977)". BFI. Archived from the original on 24 July 2012. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
- ^ "Welcome to Blood City (1977)". BFI. Archived from the original on 24 July 2012. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
- ^ [1]
- ^ "Welcome to Blood City (1977). Western in Virtual Reality. Director – Peter Sasdy. Stars: Keir Dullea, Jack Palance, Samantha Eggar. Moria – The Science-Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review". moria.co.nz.
External links[]
Categories:
- English-language films
- 1977 films
- 1970s Western (genre) science fiction films
- British Western (genre) science fiction films
- British films
- Canadian Western (genre) science fiction films
- Canadian films
- EMI Films films
- Films about death games
- Films about virtual reality
- Films directed by Peter Sasdy
- Films scored by Roy Budd
- 1970s Canadian film stubs