![]() ![]() Afterwards, Roth tells Thorn about the research he did on the murder victim and that Simonson was a member of the board of directors of the Soylent Corporation. Thorn returns to his own apartment to eat an evening meal of the purloined food taken from Simonson’s apartment that Roth prepares for them. Thorn lets himself into Fielding’s apartment where he questions Fielding’s live-in “furniture”, Martha (Paula Kelly), about his work for Simonson. The next day, Thorn stakes out Fielding’s apartment building and sees him leave. Hatcher that he suspects that Fielding might have had something to do with Simonson’s murder. Thorn also finds it odd that the luxury apartment’s sophisticated alarm and monitoring electronics, including the building’s security cameras, happened to be inoperative on the night of the murder, and his bodyguard just happened to be out of the apartment at the time. Thorn talks to his superior officer, Lieutenant Hatcher (Brock Peters), telling him that he suspects it may have been an assassination, since nothing was stolen from the apartment and the murder seemed professional. Thorn returns to work at the 14th Precinct during that evening where they’re hundreds of people lining up to collect death benefit money from recently diseased friends and family members. ![]() Returning to his apartment, Thorn gives Roth the Soylent Oceanographic Survey Report, 2015 to 2019, a two-volume work which he took from Simonson’s apartment. The sanitation crew led by Wagner arrives to take Simonson’s dead body away, as Thorn leaves after collecting a statement from Fielding. He questions Shirl (Leigh Taylor-Young), an attractive 23-year-old “concubine” (euphemistically known as “furniture”) who comes with the apartment, and Simonson’s bodyguard, Tab Fielding (Chuck Connors), who claims that he was told to escort Shirl on a shopping trip when the attack took place. Instead of looking for clues, the poorly paid detective helps himself to the wealthy man’s food, liquor and books and even enjoys taking a shower (with real hot water and soap). Thorn finds Simonson lying in a pool of blood after having been struck multiple times in the back of the head with a sharp object which is speculated to be a meat hook or an ax. Charles leads Thorn to the 22nd floor and to Simonson’s apartment which is 22A. At the crime scene, Thorn first talks with the building superintendent Charles (Philip Stone) about discovering the body. ![]() Simonson (Joseph Cotten), a 68-year-old wealthy lawyer living in a luxury high-rise apartment building called Chelsea Towers West. ![]() Thorn is assigned to investigate the murder of William R. Roth and his like are known as “books.” He tells Thorn about the time before the ecological disaster and population crisis of the early 2000s, when real food was plentiful, although Thorn is generally not interested in the stories, finding most of them too hard to believe. Roth is a former college professor whose job is to sort through the now-disordered remnants of written records and books to help Thorn’s investigations. Robert Thorn (Charlton Heston) is a New York City Police Department detective from the 14th Precinct who lives in a dilapidated, cramped one-room apartment with his aged friend and roommate, Solomon “Sol” Roth (Edward G. It is much more nutritious and palatable than the red and yellow varieties but, like most other foods, in short supply which often leads to weekly food riots. The newest product is Soylent Green: small green wafers which are advertised as being produced from “high-energy plankton”. Most of the World’s population survives on processed rations produced by the massive Soylent Corporation, including Soylent Red and Soylent Yellow, which are advertised as “high-energy vegetable concentrates”. Food, as we know it in this present time, is a rare and expensive commodity. Summers are oppressively hot and humid with temperatures over 90F degrees during the day and night due to Earth’s recent climate change resulting from the Greenhouse Effect. Most housing is dilapidated and overcrowded, and the homeless fill the streets and line the fire escapes, stairways of buildings, abandoned cars, subway platforms, etc. In the year 2022, the population has grown to 40 million people in New York City alone. And you can watch the full film for free now. And all of this is somehow easier to countenance with 1970s fashion and design – which are an absolute gas!īut it’s actually important. ![]()
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