Westworld (film) Westworld (film) Westworld is a 1973 American science fiction Western thriller film written and directed by novelist Michael Crichton about amusement park androids that malfunction and begin killing visitors. It stars Yul Brynner as an android in a futuristic Western-themed amusement park, and Richard Benjamin and James Brolin as guests of the park. The film served as Crichton's feature directorial debut. It was also the first feature film to use digital image processing to pixellate photography to simulate an android point of view. The film was nominated for Hugo, Nebula, and Saturn awards. "Westworld" was followed by a sequel, "Futureworld"
Westworld (British band) the San Francisco modern rock station Live-105's (KITS) "Top 105.3 Songs of 1988". The JAMs' "Whitney Joins the JAMs", a house mash-up single, was built around samples of Whitney Houston, Isaac Hayes, Lalo Schifrin's "" theme tune, and (according to later sleevenotes), Westworld. Westworld's track, "Ba-Na-Na-Bam-Boo", appeared on the soundtrack to the 1987 film, "Planes, Trains & Automobiles"; whilst another of their songs, "So Long Cowboy", was on the soundtrack to the 1991 movie "Point Break". A retrospective LP, entitled "Sick Cool", containing material from the band recorded in the period 1992-1994 period was commercially released in 2018 in the