To paraphrase that sign from "The Wizard of Oz", turning back is a good idea. This is a weird futuristic science fiction Western, much like many other films of the 70's but crudely done and tough to watch. If you make it through the first 20 minutes, you're probably going to make it all the way, but if you entered into a 90-minute world of crudeness and violence and vile characters you have no interest in spending time with, then it's a good idea to just give up. I can understand Jack Palance in this. It seems that he took everything that was offered to him in the 1970s, haven't had a slouch during that decade up until the time of "City Slickers". But Kier Dullea and Samantha Eggar must have had a lack of decent offers at the time to and needed to pay the rent because there's not one thing worthwhile in this film to waste their talents.
A bunch of characters are seen sitting together in the middle of nowhere as the film opens, and you're wondering how they got there and why they are there in the first place. It turns out that they all killed someone and are now being assigned to individuals to be slaves for a year, at which time they can enter that society as legitimate citizen. Once they get settled in, it becomes a desperate attempt to survive, because the people that they assigned to are horrible to them. I saw nothing worthwhile in this film because every element of it was just disgusting and trashy, and I give it above a bomb simply because of the presence of the three lead actors.
A bunch of characters are seen sitting together in the middle of nowhere as the film opens, and you're wondering how they got there and why they are there in the first place. It turns out that they all killed someone and are now being assigned to individuals to be slaves for a year, at which time they can enter that society as legitimate citizen. Once they get settled in, it becomes a desperate attempt to survive, because the people that they assigned to are horrible to them. I saw nothing worthwhile in this film because every element of it was just disgusting and trashy, and I give it above a bomb simply because of the presence of the three lead actors.