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Watch: Silent Running 1972 123movies, Full Movie Online – In a future Earth barren of all flora and fauna, the planet’s ecosystems exist only in large pods attached to spacecraft. When word comes in that the pods are to be jettisoned into space and destroyed, most of the crew of the Valley Forge rejoice at the prospect of going home. Not so for botanist Freeman Lowell, who loves the forest and its creatures. He kills his colleagues taking the ship deep into space. Alone on the craft with his only companions being three small robots, Lowell revels in joys of nature. When colleagues appear to “rescue” him, he realizes he has only one option available to him..
Plot: In a future Earth barren of all flora and fauna, the planet’s ecosystems exist only in large pods attached to spacecraft. When word comes in that the pods are to be jettisoned into space and destroyed so that the spacecraft can be reused for commercial purposes, most of the crew of the Valley Forge rejoice at the prospect of going home. Not so for botanist Freeman Lowell who loves the forest and its creatures, so decides to take matters into his own hands to protect what he loves.
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	6.6/10 Votes: 29,511
	71% | RottenTomatoes
	67/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 461 Popularity: 9.773 | TMDB

Reviews:

Silent Running features another unhinged performance from Bruce Dern. He plays Freeman Lowell, a scientists aboard a spaceship looking after the only remaining examples of Earth’s plant life as it heads off to Saturn.

Lowell has become attached to the eco-system in the spaceship and less with his crew mates who he kills when they receive orders to destroy the plant life.

On his own, alienated, staving off madness, all Lowell has are three droids for company and then his plants start to die as they get less sunlight as the craft nears Saturn.

Douglas Trumbull in some ways has directed a low fi science fiction film, in some ways the interior sets reminded me of a television series from the early 1970s. It also contains some folk songs to accompany its environmental message.

Silent Running features another unhinged performance from Bruce Dern. He plays Freeman Lowell, a scientists aboard a spaceship looking after the only remaining examples of Earth’s plant life as it heads off to Saturn.

Lowell has become attached to the eco-system in the spaceship and less with his crew mates who he kills when they receive orders to destroy the plant life.

On his own, alienated, staving off madness, all Lowell has are three droids for company and then his plants start to die as they get less sunlight as the craft nears Saturn.

Douglas Trumbull in some ways has directed a low fi science fiction film, in some ways the interior sets reminded me of a television series from the early 1970s. It also contains some folk songs to accompany its environmental message.

Remarkable film.
“Silent Running” is an appealing, unusual sci-fi tale set in deep space. Bruce Dern plays astronaut Freeman Lowell, who’s been working on a project for the past eight years: maintain the last of the flora and fauna scavenged from a devastated Planet Earth, inside huge geodesic domes. One day he gets the orders from his bosses to terminate the project and head home. Unfortunately, this idea doesn’t appeal to Freeman, and he mutinies.

The film is not subtle about its love-and-respect-for-Mother-Nature, “save the planet” mentality, but it’s quite an affecting story no matter what. Lowell does some things one can’t exactly condone, but you do understand the man. Thanks to a powerhouse performance by Mr. Dern, you can still sympathize with the man and be moved by his loneliness and social awkwardness. True enough that a story like this would seem like a pretty hard sell to studios, even 43 years ago, since there are no female characters and the main person isn’t all that noble.

Special effects veteran Douglas Trumbull, renowned for his work on “2001: A Space Odyssey”, obviously has a real affinity for creating interesting environments and striking visuals. He uses these visuals just as much as any dialogue in telling the story, which is a pretty entertaining one; it was scripted by Deric Washburn, Michael Cimino, and Steven Bochko. The effects are nicely done, and those robot characters – referred to here as drones – do have some personality, and are highly endearing, if not as memorable as, say, R2-D2 from “Star Wars”.

The songs, by Joan Baez, and score, composed and conducted by Peter Schickele, are lovely.

Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, and Jesse Vint are all fun as Lowells’ younger, more carefree associates, but after a while only Dern remains as the sole human presence on screen. His performance has to rank as one of his all time best.

Overall, watching this one is a fairly potent experience, and it does stick with you once it’s over.

Eight out of 10.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 29 min (89 min)
Budget 1000000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated G
Genre Drama, Sci-Fi
Director Douglas Trumbull
Writer Deric Washburn, Michael Cimino, Steven Bochco
Actors Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin
Country United States
Awards 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints), Mono (35 mm prints) (Westrex Recording System)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Technicolor, USA (color by) (as Technicolor®)
Film Length 2,404 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm, 70 mm (blow-up)