Rollerball

1 9 7 5 (USA)

"The year is 2018. There are no wars. There is no crime. There is only The Game."

In a future world where corporations rule and no one asks questions, the vicious and barbaric 'sport' of Rollerball satisfies the violent impulses of the masses. Tuned to their televisions, billions of people watch the sport -  a brutal mutilation of hockey, roller derby, moto-cross  and gladiatorial combat. 

Jonathan E (Caan) is the champion Rollerball player - a man too smart for his own good. The Energy Corporation has taken away the woman he loves (Maud Adams) but they can't take away his spirit,  even though diabolical corporate head, Bartholomew (John Houseman) is insisting he should retire . . . The Corporation cannot tolerate heroes. Nobody is meant to be bigger than the game itself.

A visually stunning film, and a thousand times . . . make that TEN thousand times . . . better than the recent remake.