Westworld

"Boy, have we got a vacation for you..."

1973 1h 29m EN

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6.8

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6.9

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★6.8TMDB · 1,530🍅83%Rotten Tomatoes●77Metacritic★6.9IMDB · 66,352

AdventureScience FictionWestern

Synopsis

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Delos is a futuristic amusement park that features themed worlds populated by human-like androids. After two patrons have a run-in with a menacing gunslinger in West World, the androids at Delos all begin to malfunction, causing havoc throughout the park.

“Boy, have we got a vacation for you...”

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Cast

Yul Brynner
The Gunslinger
Richard Benjamin
Peter Martin
James Brolin
John Blane
Norman Bartold
Medieval Knight
Alan Oppenheimer
Chief Supervisor
Victoria Shaw
Medieval Queen
Dick Van Patten
Banker
Linda Gaye Scott
Arlette

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Michael Crichton
Writers: Michael Crichton
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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89 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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2 / 8

MONEY

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Shot for just $1.2M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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3 / 8

MONEY

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Made its money back 8.3× over at the box office.

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4 / 8

ERA

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53 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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5 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Westworld Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Michael Crichton, shot by Gene Polito. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Fred Karlin. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor David Bretherton shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Michael Crichton directs. Gene Polito behind the camera. Fred Karlin scores. David Bretherton cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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189 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
2Shot for just $1.2M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
3Made its money back 8.3× over at the box office.
453 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
5Part of the "Westworld Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
6Directed by Michael Crichton, shot by Gene Polito. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Original score by Fred Karlin. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
8Editor David Bretherton shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Yul Brynner and Richard Benjamin and James Brolin carry the top of the cast.
10Marketing tagline: "Boy, have we got a vacation for you...".
11IMDB entry: tt0070909 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
12Classified under 9 themes, including "future", "android", "man vs machine", "saloon".
13Released under 13 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Gene Polito
Original score: Fred Karlin
Editing: David Bretherton
Makeup / hair: Frank Griffin
Stunt coordinator: Dick Ziker
Runtime: 89 min · 1h 29m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $1,200,000
Box office: $10,000,000
Return: 833% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG
IMDB: Westworld (1973)
Rotten Tomatoes: 83% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 77/100
IMDB rating: 6.9/10 · 66,352 votes
MPAA: PG

Awards

4 nominations total

Part of

Westworld Collection

A science fiction-thriller film series about a highly realistic adult amusement park featuring human realistic androids that run amok.

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Michael Crichton

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Reno2016-12-14
★ 8/10
The amusement park where you can go back in time! I wanted to see it before I get into the new television series of the same name based on this. This is totally amazing film, especially coming from the early 70s. Obviously everyone understands the cowboy culture, because it was from the past. But mixing it with the future was the real beauty here. The robots and all, I don't think all the people from that era understood it clearly, but surely they have got entertained. So now, people do have knowledge about the things what in this film was talked, but still this film is effective despite the technology differs. No doubt this film was the source of inspiration for many films that came after it. That's what I was remembering while watching that so many titles popped in my mind. So hats off to the creator of this. But looking at its rating and reviews, seems an under-rated and under-recognised film. The story was kept simple, not making any complication, either technical terms or characters and the story developments. The two friends head for an amusement part where they can have the real wild wild west holiday by drawing the arms against the robots. But one day when something goes wrong, one of them who got stranded there, looks for a way out and how he makes it told in the remaining narration. It does not give any reason why malfunction happened. Because that's how things happen right, like when a plane crash, we investigate what caused it later. So in this, it was just focused on a disaster, but the first half of was different which was more an introduction to what kind of world the story sets in. If 'Star Wars' is the father of all the space films and 'The Lord of the Rings' for all the fantasy films, then this must be the father of all the dystopian films that we see in the present cinema. Certainly it is not a masterpiece, but the idea of the film plot stands alone. It opened the door for the similarly themed films like 'Night of the Living Dead' did for the zombie films. A must, must see film, particularly by the film fanatics. 8/10

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