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THX 1138

film by Lucas [1971]

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Coppola

In Francis Ford Coppola: Early years
…from Coppola’s fledgling Zoetrope Productions, THX 1138, directed by his friend George Lucas. Disappointed by the box-office results of Coppola’s film and unimpressed by the first cut of Lucas’s, the studio ended the partnership. In the meantime, Coppola won an Academy Award for his collaboration with Franklin Schaffner on the…
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discussed in biography

In George Lucas: Early work
…society in the distant future, THX 1138 (1971) was released to respectful reviews, although its obvious debt to George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-four and overly deliberate pace kept it from being embraced too enthusiastically by either critics or audiences. The film also was one of the first made through Coppola’s…
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