Soylent Green

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Soylent Green, 1973.

Introduction and comments following Soylent Green, 1973, from Dennis Miller and friend Dana Carvey.

Guest host Dave Karger introduces Soylent Green, 1973.

Future cop Charlton Heston uncovers the deadly secret behind a mysterious synthetic food in Soylent Green (1973).

Bent but honest future cop Thorn (Charlton Heston) and his aged research assistant Sol (Edward G. Robinson), who knows about how food used to be way back when, feast on what he’s plundered from crime victims in recent days, in famine-stricken 2022 New York, in Soylent Green, 1973.

Charles (Leonard Stone), building manager and de facto pimp for the “furniture” girls, breaks up their party not realizing that openly corrupt detective Thorn (Charlton Heston) is busy with Shirl (Leigh Taylor-Young), the property of his murdered tenant, in 2022 New York, in Soylent Green, 1973.

The impressive opening montage depicting the apparent decline of Western civilization, and the first scene introducing Santini (Whit Bissell), and grouchy pals Thorn (Charlton Heston) and Sol (Edward G. Robinson) from Soylent Green, 1973, directed by Richard Fleischer.

Detective Thorn (Charlton Heston) begins his murder investigation by sampling the luxuries of the victim's apartment and offending his aide (Chuck Connors) in Soylent Green, 1973.

2022 New York cop Thorn (Charlton Heston) is being punished with riot-control duty, consulting with colleagues when it becomes clear that the supply of food wafers, noted in the title, will run out, leading to apparently routine drastic measures, Richard Fleischer directing, in Soylent Green, 1973.