Gary Kurtz was a producer on the 1973 coming-of-age film directed and co-written by whom?
Gary Kurtz Gary Douglas Kurtz (born July 27, 1940) is an American film producer whose list of credits includes "American Graffiti" (1973), "Star Wars" (1977), "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980), "The Dark Crystal" (1982) and "Return to Oz" (1985). Kurtz also co-produced the 1989 science fiction adventure film "Slipstream", which reunited him with "Star Wars" star Mark Hamill.
Soylent Green Soylent Green is a 1973 American science fiction thriller film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Charlton Heston and Leigh Taylor-Young. Edward G. Robinson appears in his final film. Loosely based on the 1966 science fiction novel "Make Room! Make Room!" by Harry Harrison, it combines both police procedural and science fiction genres; the investigation into the murder of a wealthy businessman and a dystopian future of dying oceans and year-round humidity due to the greenhouse effect, resulting in suffering from pollution, poverty, overpopulation, euthanasia and depleted resources.