The Final Programme (film)

The Final Programme is a 1973 British fantasy science fictionthriller film directed by Robert Fuest, and starring Jon Finch and Jenny Runacre. It was based on the first Jerry Cornelius novel also called The Final Programme by Michael Moorcock. It was distributed in the United States and elsewhere as The Last Days of Man on Earth. It is the only one of the many Moorcock novels to have reached the screen.

Back in the UK, a group of scientists led by Dr. Smiles and the formidable Miss Brunner who consumes her lovers try to persuade Cornelius to locate the microfilm containing his fathers Final Programme. Jerry learns from his family servant that his sister Catherine has been imprisoned by his evil, drugaddicted brother, Frank Frank has Catherine held captive in their family home, and has addicted her to drugs for unspecified reasons. Jerry, whose relationship with Catherine is implied to be incestuous, instructs his servant John to smuggle Catherine to the lodge on the propertys grounds he will take care of Frank. He consults Major Wrongway Lindbergh, who supplies him with a highpowered jet, and his old friend Shades who can supply him with napalm.The attack on the old house commences. The house is protected by a sound system which induces pseudoepilepsy, but Jerry and the others get inside unharmed. They fight their way past many traps including poison gas and a lethal chessboard. Jerry finds John fatally wounded by Frank. John confesses before dying that Catherine has not been freed and that Frank has returned her to the bedroom. Jerry finds and confronts Frank, and a needlegun fight ensues. In the confusion, Catherine is accidentally killed by Jerry. Jerry is wounded, and Frank falls into the hands of Miss Brunner. She forces him to open the vaults, but he outsmarts her and escapes with the microfilm. ........

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