A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park.

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Film Cast:
The Gunslinger: Yul Brynner
Peter Martin: Richard Benjamin
John Blane: James Brolin
Medieval Knight: Norman Bartold
Chief Supervisor: Alan Oppenheimer
Medieval Queen: Victoria Shaw
Banker: Dick Van Patten
Arlette: Linda Gaye Scott
Technican: Steve Franken
Black Knight: Michael T. Mikler
Sheriff: Terry Wilson
Miss Carrie: Majel Barrett
Daphne: Anne Randall
Girl in Dungeon: Julie Marcus
Apache Girl: Sharyn Wynters
Middle Aged Woman: Anne Bellamy
Stewardess: Chris Holter
Bellhop: Charles Seel
Bartender: Wade Crosby
Hostess: Nora Marlowe
Ticket Girl: Lin Henson
Supervisor: Orville Sherman
Supervisor: C. Lindsay Workman
Supervisor: Lauren Gilbert
Supervisor: Davis Roberts
Supervisor: Howard Platt
Technician: Richard Roat
Technician: Kenneth Washington
Technician: Jared Martin
Technician: Robert Patten
Technician: David M. Frank
Technician: Kip King
Technician: David Man
Technician: Larry Delaney
Workman: Will J. White
Workman: Ben Young
Workman: Tom Falk
Departing Guest (uncredited): Shirley Anthony
Janet Lane (uncredited): Julie Bennett
Saloon Brawler (uncredited): Tony Brubaker
Arthur Kalen (uncredited): Barry Cahill
Saloon Brawler (uncredited): Bill Catching
Stage Driver (uncredited): Ross Dollarhide
Townsman (uncredited): Jaye Durkus
Saloon Brawler (uncredited): Louie Elias
Incoming Guest (uncredited): Bob Harks
Guest (uncredited): George Hickman
Ed Wren (uncredited): Robert Hogan
Departing Guest (uncredited): Kathryn Janssen
Incoming Guest (uncredited): Paul King
Bartender (uncredited): Alan Marston
Townsman (uncredited): Rod McGaughy
Girl in Saloon (uncredited): Ty Randolph
Robert Lewis (uncredited): Robert Nichols
Departing Guest (uncredited): Monty O'Grady
Saloon Brawler (uncredited): Charlie Picerni
Incoming Guest (uncredited): Leoda Richards
Saloon Brawler (uncredited): David Roya
Townsman (uncredited): Tom Smith
Ted Mann (uncredited): Paul Sorensen
Film Crew:
Casting: Leonard Murphy
Sound Editor: Van Allen James
Stunts: Dean Smith
Writer: Michael Crichton
Set Decoration: John P. Austin
Wardrobe Supervisor: Richard Bruno
Stunts: Tony Brubaker
Sound: Harry W. Tetrick
Assistant Director Trainee: Craig Huston
Stunts: Bobby Bass
Art Direction: Herman A. Blumenthal
Editor: David Bretherton
Director of Photography: Gene Polito
Makeup Artist: Frank Griffin
Makeup Artist: Irving Pringle
Producer: Paul Lazarus III
Conductor: Fred Karlin
Special Effects: Charles Schulthies
Stunts: Terry Wilson
Wardrobe Master: Betsy Cox
Unit Publicist: Charles Lippincott
Associate Producer: Michael I. Rachmil
Musician: Artie Kane
Stunts: Alan Oliney
Second Assistant Director: James F. Boyle
Hairdresser: Dione Taylor
Stunts: Charlie Picerni
Camera Operator: Owen Marsh
Stunt Double: Chuck Hayward
Stunts: Fred Krone
Action Director: Dick Ziker
Stunts: Louie Elias
Musician: Tommy Morgan
Foley Artist: Ken Dufva
Stunts: Mickey Gilbert
Production Illustrator: Mentor Huebner
Stunts: Bill Catching
Assistant Director: Claude Binyon Jr.
Matte Painter: Matthew Yuricich
First Assistant Camera: Ronald Vidor
Camera Operator: Joseph A. August Jr.
Electrician: Doug Byers
Sound: Richard S. Church
Visual Effects Coordinator: Brent Sellstrom
Imaging Science: John Whitney Jr.
Stand In: Bob Harks
Property Master: Arthur Friedrich
Musician: Bill Campbell
Movie Reviews:
Reno: **The amusement park where you can go back in time!**
I wanted to see it before I get into the new television series of the same name based on this. This is totally amazing film, especially coming from the early 70s. Obviously everyone understands the cowboy culture, because it was from the past. But mixing it with the future was the real beauty here. The robots and all, I don't think all the people from that era understood it clearly, but surely they have got entertained. So now, people do have knowledge about the things what in this film was talked, but still this film is effective despite the technology differs.
No doubt this film was the source of inspiration for many films that came after it. That's what I was remembering while watching that so many titles popped in my mind. So hats off to the creator of this. But looking at its rating and reviews, seems an under-rated and under-recognised film. The story was kept simple, not making any complication, either technical terms or characters and the story developments.
The two friends head for an amusement part where they can have the real wild wild west holiday by drawing the arms against the robots. But one day when something goes wrong, one of them who got stranded there, looks for a way out and how he makes it told in the remaining narration. It does not give any reason why malfunction happened. Because that's how things happen right, like when a plane crash, we investigate what caused it later. So in this, it was just focused on a disaster, but the first half of was different which was more an introduction to what kind of world the story sets in.
If 'Star Wars' is the father of all the space films and 'The Lord of the Rings' for all the fantasy films, then this must be the father of all the dystopian films that we see in the present cinema. Certainly it is not a masterpiece, but the idea of the film plot stands alone. It opened the door for the similarly themed films like 'Night of the Living Dead' did for the zombie films. A must, must see film, particularly by the film fanatics.
_8/10_
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