About the Movie
The year is 2274, and inside the domed city life is perfect — youth, pleasure and leisure for everyone, forever. Well, until thirty. On your Last Day the crystal in your palm turns black, and you report to Carousel, the soaring ritual that promises renewal and delivers death. Logan 5 (Michael York) is a Sandman, one of the enforcers who hunt down the rare citizens who try to run. He has never questioned any of it.
Then the city’s computer gives Logan a secret assignment — find and destroy Sanctuary, the mythical refuge of runners — and to motivate him, it steals years from his life clock. Suddenly Logan is nearly thirty himself, with a runner named Jessica 6 (Jenny Agutter) as his only guide and his best friend and fellow Sandman, Francis (Richard Jordan), hunting him. Their escape through the city’s glittering underworld and out into a drowned, overgrown Washington, D.C. — and the ancient man they find living among the ruins (Peter Ustinov) — gives the film its aching second half.
Why This Movie Matters to Sci-Fi
The last great studio sci-fi spectacle before Star Wars changed everything, Logan’s Run won a special Academy Award for its visual effects and built one of the genre’s most durable dystopias: a paradise whose price is youth itself. Its questions about comfort, population and state-managed death have kept it in the conversation for fifty years, through a TV series, endless references, and perpetual remake talk.
Where to Watch
Watch on YouTube (rent or buy) — listed on YouTube Movies & TV.
