at theaters: august 1, 1971

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Opened in movie theaters 42 years ago today:

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OMEGA MAN  (Charlton Heston, Rosalind Cash, Anthony Zerbe; directed by Boris Sagal)

Review: “There’s an obligatory motorcycle chase (well done) and a creepy interlude in a ghoul-infested wine cellar before the movie sort of bogs down. Not even a shot of Heston in the obligatory crucifixion pose can quite mend things.”  Roger Ebert, 1971

Trivia: Based on a novel by Richard Matheson.

Quote: “Barbarians? You call us barbarians? Well… it is an honorable name. We mean to cancel the world you civilized people made. We will simply erase history from the time that machinery and weapons threaten more than they offered. And when you die, the last living reminder of hell will be gone.”

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starDate: j. lee thompson

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J. Lee Thompson

Born: August 1, 1914, England
Born to: a theatrical family
Dialog coach for: Alfred Hitchcock on JAMAICA INN (1939)
Served in : World War II with the Royal Air Force
First film success: THE YELLOW BALLOON (1953)
Recommended films as director: THE GUNS OF NAVARONE, TIGER BAY, CAPE FEAR (1962)…