Silent Running Movie Clip -Bruce Dern Teaches Poker to Robots - As the only surviving crewmember of the spaceship Valley Forge, Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) must find ways to pass the time. To stave off boredom, he programs his robots Huey and Dewey to play poker with him. But can a robot cheat at cards?
Film Synopsis:
As this science fiction classic opens, botanist Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) has spent eight years aboard the space freighter "Valley Forge" preserving the only botanical specimens left from Earth under huge geodesic domes. When he receives orders to destroy the project and return home, Lowell rebels and hijacks the freighter, while plunging the craft into the gaseous Rings of Saturn. From that moment on, he has only the trees, the gardens and two "Drone" robots, Huey and Dewey, to keep him company on his greatest adventure of all.
Cast: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint
Directed by: Douglas Trumbull
Produced by: Michael Gruskof
