40 Fun Facts About Logan's Run

In the 1976 film Logan's Run, citizens of the domed city must die on reaching what age?

30 is Last Day in the film. The novel set the limit at 21, and the screenwriter raised it so that a wider range of actors could be cast.

What name does Logan's Run give the public ritual in which citizens float upward hoping to be renewed?

Carrousel, spelt with a double r on screen, is not in the novel: it was invented for the film by a writer who then left the project.

What title does Logan's Run give the elite hunters, Logan among them, who track down and kill Runners?

Sandmen are formally Deep Sleep Operatives in the novel, where each carries a gun built to destroy itself if anyone but its owner touches it.

In Logan's Run, the old man whom Logan and Jessica meet outside the city shares his home with which animals?

Cats fill the old man's home, and he tells his visitors something unheard of in their city: that he knew his own mother and father.

Which abandoned, overgrown American city do Logan and Jessica find after escaping the domes in Logan's Run?

Washington stands empty and choked with plants. The pair explore the ruins of its Senate chamber, having been raised to believe the outside world was poisonous.

Farrah Fawcett, seen briefly in Logan's Run as Holly, became a star later that year in which TV series?

Charlie's Angels began that September, three months after the film opened, and her fast-rising fame earned a small part a prominent credit.

Which English actor, D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers, plays the title role of Logan 5 in Logan's Run?

Michael York was 33 during filming, older than anyone in the story's city is allowed to be, which the script's raised age limit made easier to accept.

Logan's Run co-author George Clayton Johnson also wrote the story behind which Rat Pack heist film, remade in 2001?

Ocean's 11 grew from a heist story he began in the 1950s, and he later wrote the first episode of Star Trek ever broadcast.

Where on the body does every citizen in Logan's Run carry the crystal life-clock that counts down to Last Day?

The palm holds the crystal, which the novel calls a palm flower and which changes colour as its owner passes from one stage of life to the next.

In Logan's Run, a citizen's life-clock crystal starts flashing which colour as Last Day approaches?

Red and flashing means time is almost up. The computer forces Logan's crystal into that state early, taking four years off his life so he can pose as a Runner.

Which English actress, known for The Railway Children and Walkabout, plays Jessica 6 in the film Logan's Run?

Jenny Agutter was 23 and newly arrived in Hollywood. She later starred in An American Werewolf in London and the BBC's Call the Midwife.

Which actor, later seen in Dune and Gettysburg, plays Logan's friend turned pursuer Francis 7 in Logan's Run?

Richard Jordan stepped in late, after the actor first announced for the part left to appear in Alfred Hitchcock's Family Plot.

Which actor, later the narrator of the film Babe, wore the costume of the robot Box in Logan's Run?

Roscoe Lee Browne was a champion middle-distance runner before he acted, winning two national indoor titles over 1,000 yards.

In Logan's Run, the robot Box was originally built to capture and freeze what as food for the city?

Marine life was Box's intended catch, but he has since frozen every Runner who made it as far as his cave near the surface.

Which British director of The Dam Busters and Around the World in 80 Days made Logan's Run?

Michael Anderson cast his own son in the film as a character called Doc, and the film brought him a Hugo Award nomination.

Which composer of the Planet of the Apes and Chinatown scores wrote the music for Logan's Run?

Jerry Goldsmith kept to strings, keyboards and electronics for scenes inside the city and saved the full orchestra for the world outside.

George Clayton Johnson wrote the 1967 novel Logan's Run with which author, who later wrote its sequels alone?

William F. Nolan followed it with Logan's World and Logan's Search, and co-wrote the pilot episode of the television series.

In the novel Logan's Run, Sanctuary proves to be an abandoned space colony near which planet?

Mars is the neighbour of Argos, the colony Logan and Jessica reach by rocket from Florida. In the film, Sanctuary turns out not to exist at all.

Which American network aired the Logan's Run TV series in 1977 before cancelling it over low ratings?

CBS commissioned the series after the film proved a hit with young viewers, but only fourteen episodes were made before it was cancelled.

Heather Menzies, Jessica 6 in the TV series Logan's Run, played one of the children in which classic musical film?

The Sound of Music cast her at 14 as Louisa von Trapp, and one of her co-stars from that film also auditioned to play Logan.

Which actor, later Gonzo Gates on Trapper John, M.D., played Logan 5 in the 1977 TV series Logan's Run?

Gregory Harrison won the title role over Dirk Benedict, who also auditioned, and went straight on to the miniseries Centennial.

In the TV series Logan's Run, which android played by Donald Moffat travels with Logan and Jessica?

Rem was invented for the series: an android the fugitives meet in a city run by robots, whose skills and tools often get them out of trouble.

In the TV series Logan's Run, who secretly rules the City of Domes and offers Francis a longer life?

A cabal of elders was added when the network had the pilot reshot, giving Francis a selfish reason to hunt his friend: a seat among them.

Which Star Trek story editor held the same post on the TV series Logan's Run and hired fellow Trek writers?

D. C. Fontana brought in several Star Trek colleagues, and one of them disliked the rewrite of his script so much that he signed it with a pen name.

The Great Hall of the city in Logan's Run was filmed at the Apparel Mart in which Texas city?

Dallas buildings stood in for the future city and saved the producers about $3 million; the water gardens in neighbouring Fort Worth were used too.

Logan's Run was the first film released with which cinema sound system on its 70 mm prints?

Dolby Stereo reached 70 mm screens with this film, a year before Star Wars persuaded smaller cinemas to install stereo equipment.

For Logan's interrogation by the computer in Logan's Run, the makers used real examples of which technology?

Holograms were judged the most convincing choice for the scene, so producer Saul David asked for a new effect to be created.

How did the effects crew of Logan's Run make performers rise into the air during the fiery renewal ritual?

Hidden wires lifted the performers, and the effects artists regarded the sequence as the most difficult in the whole film to stage.

Logan's Run won six of which prizes for science fiction, fantasy and horror, including the top film honour?

Saturn Awards went to the film in six categories, more than any other release of its year, including Best Science Fiction Film.

Which Chicago Tribune critic gave Logan's Run zero stars and called it the worst major film of the year?

Gene Siskel was far harsher than Roger Ebert, who gave the same film three stars and thought it silly but fun.

Which Hollywood studio, then struggling with debt, made Logan's Run its most expensive film in ten years?

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer spent most of the money on sets, and the film's success with young audiences is credited with helping the studio out of debt.

Which publisher adapted the film Logan's Run as a comic book in 1977, with art by George Pérez?

Marvel Comics retold the film in five issues and began a new story, then cancelled the series on a cliffhanger on realising it held rights only to the movie.

Which star of Drive was attached to a Logan's Run remake with director Nicolas Winding Refn in 2011?

Ryan Gosling's version never reached the cameras, one of many false starts for a remake that studios first began developing in the 1990s.

The underground escape scenes of Logan's Run were shot in what kind of facility in El Segundo, California?

A sewage plant supplied the tunnels, one of several real locations that spared the producers the cost of building more sets.

In the novel Logan's Run, Francis is unmasked as which legendary rebel who helps Runners to escape?

Ballard is Francis all along: he is really 42, and a faulty crystal that never changes colour lets him run the escape line from inside the system.

What name is given to the feral children who roam the Cathedral district in Logan's Run?

Cubs are vicious pre-teens who turn on outsiders. In the novel they kill Jessica's brother, a Runner whom Logan had chased into their territory.

The writer who devised the renewal ritual in Logan's Run had earlier scripted which Charlton Heston dystopian film?

Soylent Green writer Stanley R. Greenberg invented the ritual for the film, which has no equivalent in the novel, then left before the final script.

In Logan's Run, what happens to the life-clock crystals of Logan and Jessica once the pair escape the city?

They turn clear because the computer's influence ends at the city's edge, the first sign that life outside carries no deadline.

Which two-time Oscar winner, the voice of Prince John in Disney's Robin Hood, plays the old man in Logan's Run?

Peter Ustinov won both Oscars for supporting roles, in Spartacus and Topkapi, and went on to play Hercule Poirot six times.

Which ancient Egyptian symbol, worn as a pendant, marks members of the Runner underground in Logan's Run?

Ankh pendants link the Runners to Sanctuary: Logan takes one from a dead Runner, then meets Jessica wearing the same sign.