The Final Programme (1973) on Netflix
R19731h 29mComedySci-FiThriller
After burying his father in Lapland, physicist Jerry Cornelius returns to London. Dr Smiles and the formidable Miss Brunner want a microfilm hidden in the Cornelius family home.
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Jerry Cornelius, a playboy physicist, buries his father in Lapland: a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who designed the Final Programme, a blueprint for a perfect, self-replicating human being. There Dr Smiles questions him about microfilm he believes is kept at the family home in England, and Jerry threatens to blow the house up rather than hand it over. Back in Britain, Dr Smiles and the formidable Miss Brunner lead a group of scientists pressing Jerry to locate the film. Jerry also learns from his servant that his sister Catherine is being held by his brother Frank, who has addicted her to drugs, and he arranges for her to be smuggled to the lodge on the family's grounds.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Final Programme (1973)
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- Michael Moorcock wanted space-rock band Hawkwind to provide music for the entire film and appear in the scene where nuns play slot machines while Jerry tries to buy napalm; Hawkwind and Moorcock can be glimpsed in that scene, but director Robert Fuest disliked the band and replaced them with a jazz score by Beaver & Krause.
- Roger Corman bought The Final Programme for release in the US through his New World Pictures and removed 13 minutes from it.
- Robert Fuest dismissed the scripts he was offered as "believably awful" and wrote the screenplay himself, and Michael Moorcock hated what he wrote.
- As of 2026, The Final Programme is the only film adaptation of a Michael Moorcock novel ever made.
