Welcome to Blood City
Appearance
Welcome to Blood City | |
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Directed by | Peter Sasdy |
Written by | Michael Winder Stephen Schneck |
Starring | Jack Palance Keir Dullea Samantha Eggar |
Cinematography | Reginald Morris |
Edited by | Keith Palmer |
Music by | Roy Budd |
Production companies | |
Release date | August 23, 1977 |
Running time | 96 mins. |
Countries | Canada[1] United Kingdom[2] |
Language | English |
Box office | $CAD900,000 |
Welcome to Blood City is a 1977 film directed by Peter Sasdy and starring Jack Palance, Keir Dullea and Samantha Eggar.[3][4]
Premise
Five strangers awake finding themselves with no memory in a world resembling the wild west. Their task is to become exempt from being killed - what the towns people refer to as being "immortal" - by killing twenty of the other inhabitants of the town under the scrutiny of the sheriff (Jack Palance), otherwise they will spend their lives in slavery.
Cast
- Jack Palance as Frendlander
- Keir Dullea as Lewis
- Samantha Eggar as Katherine
- Barry Morse as Supervisor
- Hollis McLaren as Martine
- Chris Wiggins as Gellor
Production
Shot in Kleinburg Studios north of Toronto, Welcome to Blood City was an early Canada/U.K. tax-shelter co-production.
References
- ^ "Welcome to Blood City (1977)". BFI. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
- ^ "Welcome to Blood City (1977)". BFI. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
- ^ http://www.allrovi.com/movies/movie/welcome-to-blood-city-v53801[dead link ]
- ^ "Welcome to Blood City (1977). Western in Virtual Reality. Director - Peter Sasdy. Stars: Keir Dullea, Jack Palance, Samantha Eggar. Moria - The Science-Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review". moria.co.nz.