The Assessment - DVD

In a not-so-distant future where parenthood is strictly controlled, a couple's mysterious seven-day assessment for the right to have a child unravels into a nightmare, forcing them to question the very foundations of society. MPAA R (Restricted) Run time 1 hour and 54 minutes.

In this sci-fi thriller, Robert Conrad stars as Henry Stanton, a former goverment operative who is called out of retirement by his supervisor ( Robert Webber) to bring in a homicidal rogue agent, Robert Golem's (Richard Young). Stanton is joined by on of Golem's targets, Mary Cassales (karen Austin), who reveals that the renegade agent is actully an indestructible cyborg, a super weapon, created by a deranged scientist and programmed to terminate key goverment officals, including the President.

SPECIAL ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN EDITON As far as we know, this is the first time this great space opera film has been available in an anamorphic English language edition. And it's just pure science fiction from start to finish. The cinematography is outstanding with a nice contrast between the cold, vast deepness of space and the gray, finely-sculpted interior of the spaceship. Von Nutter plays an interplanetary news reporter who spends most of his time annoying the ship's captain and crew. Things take a sudden change, though, when he's put into a position of saving the world from Alpha Two, a runaway space station that's on a collision course with Earth. The relationship between the spaceman Savage and news reporter Von Nutter, is well developed and most engaging. Very atmospheric with a terrific '50s sci-fi stock music score.