Ben Mankiewicz Intro - Soylent Green (1973)

Soylent Green - (Original Trailer)

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

Soylent Green (1973) -- (Movie Clip) The Scoops Are On Their Way!

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.

Soylent Green (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, The Year 2022

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.

Soylent Green (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Get Me Some Booze

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.

Soylent Green (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Keep It Friendly

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.

Soylent Green (1973) -- (Movie Clip) L'Chaim!

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.