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"
Doctor Satan's Robot filmed between September 20 and October 29, 1940 under the working title "Doctor Satan", at a cost of $147,381. Locations included the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, California. According to Raymond William Stedman in "Serials: Suspense and Drama By Installment" (1971), Republic was unconsciously "observing the transfer of the costumed crusader from prairie to pavement" in the writing of this serial. The western cowboy hero would soon be replaced in popular culture by superheroes and masked crimefighters. The "Mysterious Doctor Satan" serial introduces the updated "Republic robot." A more primitive design had appeared in "Undersea Kingdom". The new robot would