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Welcome to Blood City
Directed byPeter Sasdy
Written byMichael Winder
Stephen Schneck
StarringJack Palance
Keir Dullea
Samantha Eggar
CinematographyReginald Morris
Edited byKeith Palmer
Music byRoy Budd
Production
companies
Release date
August 23, 1977
Running time
96 mins.
CountriesCanada[1]
United Kingdom[2]
LanguageEnglish
Box office$CAD900,000

Welcome to Blood City is a 1977 science fiction Western 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

Production

Shot in Kleinburg Studios north of Toronto, Welcome to Blood City was an early Canada/U.K. tax-shelter co-production.

References

  1. ^ "Welcome to Blood City (1977)". BFI. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  2. ^ "Welcome to Blood City (1977)". BFI. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  3. ^ http://www.allrovi.com/movies/movie/welcome-to-blood-city-v53801[dead link‍]
  4. ^ "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.
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