Science Fiction ·Drama · United States of America · 1971 · 1h 26m

THX 1138

THX 1138 poster
Director
George Lucas
Cast
Robert Duvall as THX Donald Pleasence as SEN Don Pedro Colley as SRT Maggie McOmie as LUH Ian Wolfe as PTO Marshall Efron as TWA
Crew
David Myers — Director of Photography Albert Kihn — Director of Photography George Lucas — Editor Marcia Lucas — Editor Lalo Schifrin — Original Music Composer George Lucas — Screenplay
Tagline

The Future is here.

Synopsis

People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.

Trailer THX 1138 — Official Trailer
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Mood & Themes
prisonmind controlfuturecomputerpolicedystopiadrug addictionhearingtotalitarian regimephasingsubterranean townhologram
Key Collaborators
George Lucas Director David Myers Director of Photography Albert Kihn Director of Photography George Lucas Editor Marcia Lucas Editor Lalo Schifrin Original Music Composer George Lucas Screenplay Walter Murch Screenplay George Lucas Story Larry Sturhahn Producer Donald Longhurst Costume Design
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