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Yul Brynner was the original Terminator!

Yul Brynner is so awesome. His gaze and his voice, damm no wonder he is a legend.

Interesting trivia: The CGI hand you see in Futureworld was originally created in 1972 by Edwin "Ed" Catmull at the University of Utah. Ed would eventually go on to co-found a little studio you may have heard of called... Pixar.

You are SO BLOODY GOOD at doing the film cut sections, almost like extended alternate trailers you bump the retrospectives with.

I remember watching this movie as a kid on TV and Yul Brenner scared the shit out of me as the gun slinger

That last third of Westworld is genius - It's the best performance Benjamin ever gave. The music shifts into classic mode and the photography is excellent... and Yul Brynner is the king.

I think, unless I am mistaken, that the idea of the hands being the one flawed aspect of the robots in Westworld goes back to artists of the past whose greatest difficulty was in being able to draw or paint the human hand as it was the hardest body part to perfect in art form. But don't quote me on this.

"But John, when Westorld breaks down, the cowboys don't shoot the tourists.... oh wait."

"The future of 1983....OMG"......just hearing you mock the date and year always cracks me up.

we need to see the 3 hour cut of "WestWorld" with all the removed footage fully restored.

Just watched it and even thou I am not easily scared Yul Brynner made my skin crawl with his unsettling presence. And I loved every peace of it.

Very sad that Michael Crichton didn't live long enough to see what a great TV show his idea spawned

Dated yes, but still a classic and one of my favourite movies. Trivia: Yul Brynner's character was part of the inspiration for Michael Myers in the Halloween movies. The cold faceless almost robotic killer.

Yul Brynner did a great job with the gunslinger role. It scared the crap out of me when I watched this as a kid. Michael Crichton was a phenomenal writer…RIP.

Trivia: Arnold Schwarzenegger watched and studied Yul Brenner's performance in Westworld in preparation of playing The Terminator.

Medical doctor, author, director: Michael Crichton was a talented man.

This came out when I was 4 years old. I saw it on TV a few years later and still remember the impact it had. Just recently picked it up on DVD expecting it to have aged horribly, but I was surprised how well it has held up! And how it foreshadowed "computer viruses". ;)

yes, he does look like Christian Bale!

Saw it in '73.......I'm old, OK? Anyhoo, streamed it again recently, and its way better than I remembered. Pretty damn good film, albeit low budge.

When this movie was released, there were still two long running western tv shows in the u.s., Bonanza and Gunsmoke,

First movie I went to see by myself at age 13. Saw the gunslinger clip with Yul Bryner on the Tonight Show. I HAD to see it after that. Rode my bike to the local movie theater in Minneapolis and paid for it from my allowance. Fabulous movie that fired my imagination and led me to a career in electronics and computers.

Hello Oliver, Eric Ryder here! Excellent review of "Westworld". I really thought this film was truly ahead of it's time. This truly was the seedling to bigger things for both Michael Crichton as I watched this film I noticed two films that truly inspired this movie and not the crappy sequel and the unsuccessful 1980's series, I'm talking about "Jurassic Park" with the theme of theme parks mechanical props go haywire and "The Terminator" because Yul Brynner as The Gunslinger reminded me of him. He was unstoppable, silent, stoic and unbeatable. The film really caught my attention the whole way through and I was excited the whole way through. The acting was pretty god, though not memorable, the fear and the whole idea combining the Western genre with sci-fi was pure original and effective and that the creations killing the creators and the guests give us that eerie feeling of the possibility of our future if computer generated advancements take over our lives and don't need to rely on human dependency. I might be thinking crazy, but a possible cyber war may not be too far away. This film indicates that possibility that rings more closer to now than it was back in 1973. Please stop and visit my channel and check out my review on "Westworld". Feel free to leave a comment. Okay? Thank you.

0:45 I think that aircraft from Westworld was what inspired the “row bar” for the Miranda class starships in Star Trek.

I just saw this a few weeks ago. I always remember seeing it in the video store when I was a kid in the 80s but never rented it. Here is a bit of trivia: Did anyone notice the Madam in the brothel is Major Barrett ? Gene rodenberry's wife and the voice of the compute on STNG.

Heh...you youngsters... This was a "B movie" in the theaters...but for scifi fans - it was awesome. Yul Brenner was so perfect. Brolin and Benjiman were ubiquitous at the time. So glad you love the new version. It is really part of the new golden age of television.

Amazing video as usual!! How brilliant was Michael Crichton, so far ahead of his time.

Michael Crichton was a genius. Still not appreciated to the level he should be.

Great movie, the change from goofy to serious was done so well.

Welcome to Itchy and Scratchyland, where nothing can possib-lie go wrong. Uh, possibly go wrong. That's the first thing that's ever gone wrong.

We are out of “Bort” licence plates, I repeat, we are out of “Bort” licence plates!

I remember watching this as a kid for the first back in the 80's Yul's dead-eyed performance as the gunslinger always creeped the s*** out of me

Wow you can really see the influence it had on The Terminator. And who else was thinking about computer viruses in the early 70s? I never knew about this movie but now it shows even more how much of a visionary Micheal Crichton was.

Love that you did an older film, and here's hoping to tackle many more classics from the 1960s and early 1970s!

Almost from the very beginning of the movies theres been the concept of robots fashioned after human's, but WestWorld was the very first movie I remember seeing that the robot concept was pushed to a point where, the robots were almost indistinguishable from people, I would argue that this movie sets up the whole genre for movies like the Terminator franchise

Rollerball is a gem in the rough from this period, do it one day.

Watching this and The Terminator for the first time gave me such a feeling of absolute dread. No other films have came close to that feeling. Anyone else know what I mean by that?

Yul Brynner was one of the greats from that era of cinema!

This movie came out of nowhere, never ever heard about this. I looks like its actually pretty devastating movie, strong message in it. Good review as always Oliver. :)

I saw this movie when I was a kid in the 90's with my uncle, who is a film buff. I remember we were outside Flagstaff, AZ in my family's trailer/cabin and I was bored, being a kid and all, so my uncle bought this and put it on. According to him I watched it over and over. Great film in my opinion, way ahead of its time!

What always intrigued me about this movie is that they talk about an infection of the computers at one point, literally a computervirus almost 20 years before they actually existed

Westworld is one of those great science fiction movies of the late 1960s and 1970s that came out before Star Wars that were relatively low budget, but had an interesting story to tell, and they were often shown on TNT in the 1990s. I remember seeing this movie at a drive in movie theater with my dad in 1973. I miss those days.

I saw Westworld at a local drive-in theater in Daytona Beach, Florida. I was 16 years old. My friends and I watched it from the bed of a long pick-up truck. We were in lawn chairs with a cooler crammed full of ice and beer. It is one of my fondest memories. Yul Brenner fascinated me with his performance and the movie had plenty of scares. Good times!

I saw this when released in 1973. I saw Futureworld when it was first released on VHS. TRIVIA: American International Pictures is now owned by MGM. It was relaunched in 2020 to release acquired titles. MGM and AIP are now both owned by Amazon.

Michael Crichton: "I have an idea for a story about a futuristic theme park that malfunctions, killing the guests and reminding us that technology is a double edged sword" Publisher: "Let me guess...a kind of zoo with dinosaurs as the attraction..." Michael crichton: "No! It's a...wait...say that again!"

I really like it when you delve into movies made prior to Star Wars, since most younger people seem to think that motion picture history began in 1977.

Only saw this recently but it's really impressive when you compare it to similar films of the time - the ending in particular where he's not even surprised to see everyone dead in the Roman sector and the sheer feeling of unavoidable dread is palpable even today.

I love the retrospective videos so much, really good job

With "Westworld", Michael Crichton predicted computer viruses before there was such a thing as software, as well as remote wireless battery charging.

One of my favorite films as a child in the 70’s...this review really brought a smile to my face. Thank you again for another excellent piece.

Just finished the new series and it's been great! This has given me the taste to revisit the film. Great stuff yet again Oliver.

My biggest problem with the film is the 'western TV show' music they use throughout it, which camps up the whole thing. Otherwise, it has a fairly creepy mood.

Come 2023 this film will be 50 years old. What an amazing film, still holds up today. And I’d go further probably even better than some of the pish films today. Yup, yul Brynner was bad ass in this.

Hey Oliver, how about a Logan's Run review? It would be a good complement to this one along with a lot of your others and seems like it would be right at home with your review library.

Blows my mind that this was Jurassic Park before Jurassic Park!

Crichton really knew what he was doing when he created this film & his novels. Many of the things created in his stories are slowly coming to fruition; just no recreated dinosaurs thank God

Yul Brynner is great in this roll. Truly outstanding performance, very scary

It's actually fitting when an ad for the new Westworld pops up in the middle of this review.

Great job of editing the footage and telling the story and making points about the movie. I love this movie I have it it on VHS, DVD and Bluray.

How cool to see Majel Barrett and Alan Oppenheimer. Nurse Chapel/Number 1 from Star Trek and Dr. Rudy Wells from the Six Million Dollar Man respectively.

Rudy Wells -- Steve Austin's doctor who 'rebuilt him', same head Delos scientist/director in this.

Wow, I never noticed that. But you're right, at times he is almost identical to Bale when seen from certain angles.

I had no idea Oliver went into the 70's. More of that decade please. Love it all anyways.

For you fans of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, the chief supervisor was played by Allan Oppenheimer. He was the voice of Skeletor in the He-Man cartoons! For an added bonus, the brothel madam was played by Majel Barret who was married to Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry. Barret played many roles in Trek from the Enterprise’s original First Officer, Number One, to Nurse Chapel, Lawaxana Troi and voiced most of the computers up to the 2009 reboot (which was her last role).

These retrospectives you do are great. Keep them up

I guess this is what happened to the crew when they were filming the Magnificent Seven, Monty Python and the Holy Grail & Julius Caesar. Now we have Disney Land.

Another great review and in good timing with the show going on. I love your retrospective reviews. Would love for you to do a retrospective review on Fright Night(1985) Keep up the good work, Oliver

The use of minimal dialogue in the last act adds to the intensity.

A few thoughts (ha ha, get it, thoughts): (1) In retrospect, I believe that the the first sign that there might be "trouble in paradise" (in short, things might eventually go wrong go wrong go wrong...) was the seemingly blank look on Arlette's face when "she" and John finish their lovemaking..."she" actually seems to be disappointed. The fact that she exits saying "I think you're very nice" rather curtly and ends up later that morning in the bed belonging to the character played by Dick Van Patten...I think Mr. Crichton was providing humorous but pointed foreshadowing here. (2) I do agree with the reviewer's thought that corporate greed was really the aim of the film more than arrogance with technology (although both themes neatly dovetail as the film reaches its climax and resolution). (3) A lot of people have grumbled about how the HBO series overemphasized the female androids' dominance. It seems inevitable to me -- in the film, the male robots do all the killing while the female ones are basically just there "for the coitus". Might have made for a more interesting twist if the women automatons would have picked up guns, swords, etc. Speaking of which... (4) I do wish that actresses Victoria Shaw (the Medieval Queen), Anne Randall (Daphne) and Julie Marcus (Girl in Dungeon) would have had more to do in the movie [this is my only REAL complaint here]. It would have been something to see the gradual breakdown and eventual "cascade failure" [the term we might use these days for it] play out through, say, the Queen repeating "herself" after the guest left [and the robot programmers/handlers making note of it] or Daphne not only refusing seduction but also equally refusing to report to Central Repair after attempts to reprogram "her" do not work and eventually "she" is carried away by tech support when her battery power runs out [perhaps freezing in place at some point]. Maybe at the conclusion of the scene where John sets the Gunslinger on fire [and the camera pans back to both the Queen and the Black Knight] there is a gradual close-up of the Queen and right when the lens shows only "her" face, "she" blinks "her" eyes several times and swivels "her" head to indicate that "her" reserve battery power wasn't actually exhausted yet. At least when the brief scene of the Girl in Dungeon comes up, the fact that "she" refuses water, "knowing" that it will short-circuit "her" leads me to believe that a kind of AI sentience has been reached [bringing this commentary full circle with the statement statement I made above regarding Arlette] and maybe the robot breakdown would have been inevitable anyway. But Evan Rachel Wood kills it in the new series, nonetheless. That's all I have for now. Enjoyed the review -- looking forward to watching more of these!

Great as always, Ollie! Glad I own the Blu-ray of this movie.

Nice work as Always, Oliver. Since you've touched on Crichton here, do you think you'll do a retrospective on 1981's Looker in the future? That's an underrated little film.

"Where nothing can possibPLY go wrong. Huh. That's the first thing that's ever gone wrong."

Oliver, the TNT channel is still around, runs a mix of movies and sports. Turner Classic Movies was started as an answer to the AMC (American Movie Classics) channel. Since Ted Turner owned the MGM film library he had plenty of films to run there

You can always tell how old movie is by ashtrays on tables :)

Love those retrospective / reviews

A very good friend of mine show me this movie in DVD at early 2000 and it surprised me. Your video is awesome and help me understand this film which -until I know- was never released theatrically or in VHS in Chile, but was shown in midnight cinema in the 80s. Thanks Oliver for another hit in your collection.

Great video mate! I've watched your video after watching WestWorld for the 1st time ever. GJ! Impressive work.

"Oh my GAHD."

Great Review Oliver, I really enjoyed it. It has been at least two decades since I saw this movie for the last time. I hope to see more stuff from the 1970s from you. Thanks a lot.

This film was definitely ahead of its’ time!

Gotta go watch it again now... great review like always !!!

Fantastic review. This is one of my all time favorite 70's era science fiction films. Westworld, Logan's Run and Soylent Green are three of the best IMO.

Michael Crichton was a very smart man who was always questioning the conventional narrative, I wonder what he would have thought of things today. I'm pretty sure they would have tried to cancel him.

Remember in the film Jurassic Park and wondered if it was a sideways reference to Westworld: John Hammond: "All major theme parks have delays. When they opened Disneyland in 1956, nothing worked! " Ian Malcolm: "Yeah, but, John, if The Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists." The idea of the robotic performers in a theme park killing tourists due to a malfunction is pretty much exactly the plot of Westworld.

You can hear certain sound effects being used in the original score that were adapted for the TV show. Most notably, in the track Freeze All Motor Functions.

As always a great in depth review. Cheers Mate.😊😊😊

I remember seeing this when it first came out, the story, effects and everything was so brilliant at the time.

Yul Brenner was incredibly menacing with hardly any dialog. The movie has some slow bits and odd bits but otherwise is excellent. When comparing the movie to the new series it's as if the new series writers really don't get the tone of the movie. They are more interested in exploring AI self awareness than following up the idea of one of the first movie killer androids/robots. It's kind of the same story problem Person of Interest had in that it was very loosely based on Colossus The Forbin Project. I don't particularly care for either television adaptions in their execution of stories.

Another classic, and a great review. I remember running a Film Society at school, shortly after the release of Jurassic Park, and we showed this movie , great comparisons. Amazing what 20 years of technology advancement can do. Also shows how far ahead of its time Westworld was. I guess I didn’t give the new TV show enough of a chance. Will have to start rewatching!

I also remembered watching Westworld on cable TV back in the 90's the first time and i was blown away especially during the final act of the film. Years later i preferred Westworld over Jurassic park mainly because Westworld worked on a lower budget. It just goes to show you can pull off great artistic decisions on a smaller scale.

Oliver please do Disney's the black hole one of my all time favs.

a very visionary movie and well done from their time can't complaint at all , one of my favorite sci-fi classic awesome review Oliver

Such a brilliant and under rated film. The new tv show is good but nothing as thought provoking or mysterious and creepy as the 70's film. Top notch video.

9:47 "OH MY GOD!" lmao I can seriously put this on repeat all day 😂

I like the different worlds and how violence erupts in Roman World while the guests are oblivious in Westworld sets up great tension and also reflects on us as a society watching violence on the news in other countries so different in culture to our own and we think "it couldn't happen here"

Well, this past Thursday, I came across this movie on Blu-Ray in a "$7.99" bin at my local Walmart. I finally watched it last night. Such a great movie, definitely not perfect, then again what movie is. One thing that bugs me about the movie is, with each world, there is a champion of some sort, "Westworld" had The Gunslinger and "Medieval World" had The Black Knight. I wish I got to see what "Roman World's" champion was, but since it barely got any focus, there was no way of telling. But other then that, I really dug this movie.

It's amazing that how Pedro Pascal's agent Whisky in Kingsman the golden circle, looks so similar to Richard Benjamin's Peter in this movie.

Westworld is a mix of Terminator and Jurassic Park. I would love to this film.

I love these collages at the beginings.

Nice review! You should check out Zardoz, that is one cool sci-fi flick :D