Deadly Harvest - Raccolto mortale

Deadly Harvest - Raccolto mortale (1977)

Deadly Harvest

Grant Franklin, un pacifico agricoltore, si rivela un tenace combattente quando, a seguito di una carestia di immani proporzioni, si trova a difendere se stesso e la sua famiglia da bande di razziatori e da cinici speculatori che non si arresterebbero di fronte all'omicidio pur di procurarsi del cibo da rivendere al mercato nero. Ad aumentare le preoccupazioni dell'uomo è suo figlio, ragazzo ribelle e influenzabile, che si è unito ad un gruppo di delinquenti.

Data di uscita
1977-08-21
TMDB
4.7 / 10 (7)
Durata
1 h 30 min
Generi
Fantascienza, Dramma
Regista
Timothy Bond

Cast

Curiosità

Deadly Harvest is a 1977 Canadian science-fiction "eco-thriller" film directed by Timothy Bond, about a farmer who struggles to keep food on the table and regain his son from a gang of marauding city-folk during a terrible worldwide famine, brought on by global cooling due to, among other named causes in a voice-over, overpopulation, urban sprawl, the energy crisis, pollution, and the high cost of transporting grain. The film was produced by Anthony Kramreither and Len Herberman, with a screenplay by Martin Lager, and features an score by John Mills-Cockell.

Production

Tim Bond had previously only directed stage plays, while scriptwriter Martin Lager was similarly first a playwright when they took on Deadly Harvest, titled Doomsday prior to the beginning of production. Scientific consultation was provided by City Green Hydroponics.

Described by Kramreither as having a "big budget" (one source says US$250,000), investors included Ambassador, Famous Players and "private sources".

Principal photography took place at locations in Toronto and Pickering, Ontario over four weeks beginning in November 1976 and ending in early December, adapting the day for night technique to a "December-for-August approach" for the purposes of depicting a world having undergone global cooling.

John Mills-Cockell's score consists of "largely synthesized drones", which Andrew Burke compares to the "electronic pulses and bleeps" of Michael Snow's La Région Centrale.

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