Movie: THX 1138 (1971)

• Director: George Lucas
• Release Date: 11 March 1971 (USA)
• Writers: George Lucas (story) George Lucas (earlier screenplay) George Lucas (screenplay) …  
• Run Time: 86 min | USA:88 min (director's cut)
• Country: USA
• Genre: Drama , Mystery , Sci-Fi , Thriller  
• MPAA: Rated R for some sexuality/nudity. (2004 director's cut)

Tagline: Visit the future where love is the ultimate crime.  

Trivia: George Lucas’s original plan was to shoot the film in Japan, but Francis Ford Coppola did not give Lucas enough money in the film’s budget to take the entire production to Japan. The film was shot in San Francisco and Los Angeles. 

Goofs: Revealing mistakes: When THX is shouldered, naked, by the police in prison, we can see his short shorts tan line on his leg – pretty impossible for people in an underground city. 

“George Lucas adapted this, his first film, from a short he made at University. THX 1138, LUH 3417, and SEN 5241 attempt to escape from a futuristic society located beneath the surface of the Earth. The society has outlawed sex, with drugs used to control the people. THX 1138 stops taking the drugs, and gets LUH 3417 pregnant. They are both thrown in jail where they meet SEN 5241 and start to plan their escape. Written by Colin Tinto <cst@imdb.com>”