Westworld (1973)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
The Gunslinger	Yul Brynner
Peter Martin	Richard Benjamin
John Blane	James Brolin	½
Chief Supervisor	Alan Oppenheimer
Medieval Queen	Victoria Shaw
Banker	Dick Van Patten

Review

Richard Benjamin and James Brolin are young, fresh-faced pals en route to the holiday of the future: a resort designed like an old-fashioned western town – complete with real westerners, townsfolk and gunmen played by high-tech robots with whom the vacationers can do as they please, just for the thrill of it. This is virtually the 1970s take on virtual reality, until reality catches up and the machines, as per default in mid-20th century sci-fi movies, take matters into their own hands. The predictability is abated by the tension director writer/director Michael Crichton is able to construe, not least thanks to radiant acting by Yul Brunner as the gunman. And the terror in fish-out-of-water Benjamin's face seems real, although probably as much from riding a horse as from trying to outrun Brunner.