Brave New World
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Burt Brinckerhoff
Julie Cobb
Bud Cort
Keir Dullea
Ron O'neal
Marcia Strassman
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
An ambitious but confusing and unsuccessful attempt to translate the satirical Aldous Huxley novel of a futuristic society in a place called Savageland 600 years in the future. No one there ages past thirty-five, babies are mass produced on an assembly line, and "engagings" (sexual trysts) are compulsory. A large, relatively unknown cast, reciting a space-aged gibberish that comes natural only to Robin Williams when he is doing Mork from Ork ("A soma a day keeps the jim jams away," one character philosophizes), and a tedious script make this three-hour movie (edited down from four before its premiere) difficult going. It did, however, garner three Emmy Award nominations: photography, art direction and set decoration, and costume design.
Director
Burt Brinckerhoff
Cast
Julie Cobb
Bud Cort
Keir Dullea
Ron O'neal
Marcia Strassman
Kristoffer Tabori
Dick Anthony Williams
Jonelle Allen
Valerie Curtin
Tricia O'neil
Victoria Racimo
Sheree Brewer
Reb Brown
Tara Buckman
Lee Chamberlin
Sam Chew Jr.
Beatrice Colen
Patrick Cronin
Peter Elbling
Aron Kincaid
Carole Mallory
Bill Overton
Murray Salem
Delia Salvi
Nicholas Savalis
Jonathan Segal
Jeannetta Arnette
Carol Tillery Banks
June Barrett
Perry Bullington
Shane Butterworth
Jeanne M Carson
Janet A Carson
Natasha Hanna
Xenia Hanna
Alexandra Hanna
Susan Krebs
Sandra Mccabe
Steven Monde
Gregory Morton
Barney Pell
Chris Peterson
Caroline Smith
Ken Sylk
Chris Peterson
Crew
Jacqueline Babbin
Mary Ann Biddle
Paul Chihara
James T Heckert
Aldous Huxley
Tom H John
Jim Larue
Milton Sperling
Robert E. Thompson
Kent Warner
Harry L Wolf
Film Details
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Miscellaneous Notes
Aired in United States March 7, 1980
