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Blade Runner
Director: Ridley Scott (Dir)
Release Date:   Jun 1982
Premiere Information:   New York and Los Angeles opening: 25 Jun 1982
Duration (in mins):   114, 117 or 124
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Cast:   Harrison Ford (Deckard)  
    Rutger Hauer (Batty)  
    Sean Young (Rachel)  
    Edward James Olmos (Gaff)  
    M. Emmet Walsh (Bryant)  
    Daryl Hannah (Pris)  

Production Company: The Ladd Company  
  Sir Run Run Shaw  
Distribution Company: Warner Bros., Inc.  
Director: Ridley Scott (Dir)
Producer: Michael Deeley (Prod)
Writer: Hampton Fancher (Scr)
  David Peoples (Scr)
Photography: Jordan Cronenweth (Dir of photog)
Art Direction: Lawrence G. Paull (Prod des)
Film Editor: Terry Rawlings (Supv film ed)
Music: Vangelis (Mus comp, arr, performed and prod)
MPAA Rating: R
Country: United States
Language: English

Music:
Songs:
Source Text: Based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick (Garden City, NY, 1968).
Authors: Philip K. Dick

Copyright Claimant Copyright Date Copyright Number
The Blade Runner Partnership 25/6/1982 dd/mm/yyyy PA157612

PCA NO: 26573
Physical Properties: Sd:
  col: Technicolor
  Widescreen/ratio: Panavision

 
Genre: Science fiction

Note: Blade Runner was ranked 97th on AFI's 2007 100 Years…100 Movies--10th Anniversary Edition list of the greatest American films. 

Bibliographic Sources:   Date   Page
Daily Variety   14 Jun 1982   p. 3.
Hollywood Reporter   15 Jun 1982   p. 3.
Los Angeles Times   25 Jun 1982   Section VI, p. 1.
New York Times   25 Jun 1982   Section III, p. 10.
New Yorker   12 Jul 1982   pp. 82-85.
Newsweek   28 Jun 1982   p. 72.
Rolling Stone   6 Aug 1972   pp. 33-34.
Time   12 Jul 1982   p. 68.
Variety   16 Jun 1982   p. 15.
Village Voice   6 Jul 1982   p. 47.

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