"Logan's Run" was one of the last of the big-budget science fiction films before Star Wars hit the scene and changed everything. Coming during that time when sci-fi films were not produced often, I was really captured by the world of "Logan's Run" (and Jessica's
sideless dress), and collected the novelization, the score LP, and (best of all) a set of large-format lobbycards (which I'll feature in a future post). This time we're looking at an article on the film from issue #2 of Starlog (
see cover here) published in November of 1976.
(Click on images to enlarge.)
I managed to see the movie twice when it was first released; once in the theater in Ft. Lauderdale, FL and a few months later in a drive-in in Macon, GA (we moved VERY often), where I taped the sound on my little Radio Shack tape deck. I probably still have the cassettes somewhere in a box. This was one of the first movies I went to see as a teen that show a little skin, which was a bonus at the time!
One thing I noticed was a Star Trek fan extra who snuck in the Vulcan salute at the end! Have you ever seen it? Watch at the end when the young people are reaching for the old man... right in the foreground, one of the raised hands briefly makes the Vulcan hand sign, and it made it in the movie! See my screen capture of the moment below...
My sneaky Trekker friend, whoever you are, I applaud you!
UPDATE: I have heard from the person owning the hand in the above scene! I received an email from Adam Wyse, who wrote this:
Fred,
Thought you might be interested to learn that I was the Vulcan Hand
Salute kid in Logan's Run. My mother was a talent agent in Dallas
after we moved here from L.A. in 1970. I had done many national
commercials through an agent there and my mom decided to open an agency
in the new film frontier of Dallas. As a result, she always sent me on
extra calls for films made in Dallas at the time like Logan's Run,
Phantom of the Paradise, Semi-Tough and others. I remember working
weeks on end on LR culminating to the big finale of filming the
destruction of "Dome City" filmed at the Ft. Worth Water Gardens. We
were directed to wait on the far side of a wall for the explosions and
then came over to gather around the first old person we'd ever seen,
played by the late Peter Ustinov. I also remember a girl from our
agency was selected to be the one to touch the old man's face. Rumor
has it this required a "special audition", but who really knows. Anyway,
I was simply wanting to find a way to locate myself in the crowd and
didn't do it long, I thought. I feared it would get noticed and end up
on the cutting room floor, but as you mentioned, made the final print. I
had forgotten about this until a friend of mine from back then called
me and said the salute had made the Internet. So, there it is and
thanks for the applaud.
Adam
Isn't that cool? Thanks, Adam, for sharing your story! It is neat finding out all these years later who that was that made their mark for Star Trek fans in a sci-fi movie!
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