The Final Programme (1973)
- Directed by
- Robert Fuest
- Genre
- drama film, fantasy film, science fiction film, LGBTQ-related film, dystopian film, science fiction comedy
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 5.4 of 10 from 30 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A scientist named Jerry Cornelius is drawn into a scheme to create a superhuman being using a computer program. He navigates a world of eccentric characters and bizarre tech plots.
quirkyoffbeatwryplayfulretro-futuristicstylizeddeadpancampy
What happens
The Final Programme (released in the United States as The Last Days of Man on Earth) is a 1973 British black comedy science-fiction film written and directed by Robert Fuest, based on the 1968 novel by Michael Moorcock. It stars Jon Finch as Moorcock's fictional hero Jerry Cornelius, along with Jenny Runacre, Hugh Griffith, Patrick Magee, Sterling Hayden, Ronald Lacey, Harry Andrews, and Derrick O'Connor and Sarah Douglas in their film debuts. The film was distributed in the UK by Anglo-EMI Film Distributors, and released on October 4, 1973. It received a lukewarm critical and commercial response, though its pop art production design was praised. Later criticism has described the film as a cult classic. As of 2026, it is the only Moorcock novel to have reached the screen, and has been called "an interesting document of an important period in British science fiction literature." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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