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The Sentinel

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Veteran Secret Service agent Pete Garrison investigates a colleague's murder and is subsequently framed as a mole in an assassination attempt on the President due to the machinations of a blackmailer who knows the secret he is hiding. Disgraced, dismissed, and now a fugitive with two relentless federal investigators hot on his heels, Garrison must both clear his name and save the president from assassination. From TMDB

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  • Vault of Horrors @vaultofhorrors.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 7, 2026

    The Sentinel (1977) is a visually grotesque, and deeply unsettling occult horror film. It stands as one of the most eccentric studio horror releases of the 1970s, blending high-fashion New York atmosphere, psychological dread, and a surreal descent into demonic carnage. #horror #horrormovies

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  • Andrew B. Barkhatov @abbsound.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 9, 2025

    🛶 The Sentinel and the Flow For a moment — no faces, no motion. Just the river, the monument, the factory. The confluence where the Moskva River meets the canal, and the city becomes a panorama. Peter gazes outward, and we gaze at him. #filmphotography #blackandwhite #landscape #cityscape #35mm #bw

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  • Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 3, 2025

    The Langella DRACULA rocks and THE SENTINEL is a really messed up Michael Winner horror movie

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  • William Buchanan @williambuchanan93.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 3, 2025

    Tonight's film The Sentinel (1977)

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  • Clinton of the Damned 🎃👻 @puritythrufire.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 10, 2026

    Picking a (not so) random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Year 2, Day #301 "The Sentinel" (Michael Winner/1977) Interesting late 70s hidden gem about an apartment in NYC built on the gate to hell. It's worth your time to check it out.

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  • Steven Wallace @stevenwallacephoto.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 3, 2025

    Looking out from the Sentinel Dome trail. Shot on Agfa Scala 200x film. #filmphotography #slidefilm #yosemetinationalpark

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  • CC @cckirby.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 19, 2026

    you need to watch The Sentinel this is a hidden gem of a horror film

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  • Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 27, 2024

    I don't know how this happened, but Michael Winner’s THE SENTINEL (1977) w/ Cristina Raines (and an all-star cast of familiar faces) is now on Netflix. Excluding PSYCHO, THE BIRDS, and JAWS, it’s now their oldest horror movie. Everybody watch it and we can totally game their algorithm. #FilmSky

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  • Hot Blooded Tough Guy Rusty Shackles @rustyshackles.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 30, 2025

    Watching The Sentinel (1977), which has maybe the most “oh hey they’re in this!” Cast outside of a Robert Altman movie

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  • film-authority.com @film-authority.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 8, 2025

    No director has caused me more annoyance that the late Michael Winner; while his 1977 horror The Sentinel has many fans including Edgar Wright, I'm not one of them, and it's recent appearance on streaming gave me the chance to put the boot into this sorry film. 1/5 film-authority.com/2025/04/08/t...

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  • Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 7, 2024

    Too sleepy to work today, so I put on the horror movie The Sentinel, and man, that is a wild movie.

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  • SCI-FIVE 🔵 ✊🏿 🏳️‍🌈 🖖 🚀 @sci-five.bsky.socialBluesky · May 23, 2025

    #scifisky #filmsky #scifi #movies #2001:ASpaceOdyssey 🎬📽️ Arthur C. Clarke's first '2001' novel was developed concurrently with Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film version and published after the film's release. The novel is based in part on some of his short stories including "The Sentinel" (1948).

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  • Seb - 🌴 Palm Springs Nov 3-9, Los Angeles Nov 9-12 🌴 @sebbearva.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 8, 2024

    Tonight’s film, The Sentinel (1977). From Variety’s review at the time - "The Sentinel is a grubby, grotesque excursion into religioso psychodrama, notable for uniformly poor performances by a large cast of familiar names and direction that is hysterical and heavy-handed." #horrorsky

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  • David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 10, 2026

    Remembering the delightfully eccentric Sylvia Miles, iconic Oscar-nominated character actress, on her 102nd birthday, acclaimed for roles in VIOLENT MIDNIGHT, MIDNIGHT COWBOY, THE LAST MOVIE, FAREWELL MY LOVELY, THE SENTINEL, THE FUNHOUSE, EVIL UNDER THE SUN, WALL STREET, CROSSING DELANCEY, and more

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  • Movies from HELL @26mfhpod.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 13, 2025

    New episode, now streaming over at our free Patreon, we got to talk about Michael Winner movies (The Sentinel, Scream for Help and The Nightcomers) with our friend, and movie genius, James Hancock listen here 👇/👉 www.patreon.com/posts/141057...

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  • David Kuhne @davidkuhne.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 5, 2025

    The Sentinel is an absolutely awful film that I’ve watched at least ten times

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  • Simon Abrams, King of the Witches @simonsaybrams.bsky.socialBluesky · May 31, 2026

    Movie #1 is AIP’s spin on THE DUNWICH HORROR, starring Sandra Dee and Dean Stockwell. Haven’t seen this since, uh, college? High school? Trailers were: The Sentinel, Seizure, and Let’s Scare Jessica to Death.

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  • TattooedHorrorGranny @tattooedgranny.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 26, 2025

    284) The Sentinel (1977) #Splatterday on Fawesome #MutantFam #HorrorCommunity #NowWatching #TheSentinel

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  • Johnny @marcain86.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 23, 2025

    #nowwatching The Sentinel on Shudder. First time watch for me and @missjhamm.bsky.social. I know nothing about this movie so let’s see if it’s got that 70’s horror jank. #monsterlodge #horrorsky

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  • Annie @badgrgrl21.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 29, 2025

    Movie depiction of high fashion shoots in the 1970s always include slinky dresses and large dogs. Also See: The Sentinel, & our next film 🤣 #fullmoonfrights

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  • Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 26, 2025

    I'm not saying I found another piece of the jackass's plagiarism, but the boarding house in the 1977 horror film The Sentinel bears a lot of vibes-similarity to the boarding house Rose Walker lives in in the "A Doll's House" arc of Sandman.

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  • Seb - 🌴 Palm Springs Nov 3-9, Los Angeles Nov 9-12 🌴 @sebbearva.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 20, 2024

    I recently watched the horror film The Sentinel (1977). While it was silly and boring there seemed like there could have been something there. Enter the 1974 novel. At 39% of the way through I know I’m wasting my time. The plot is derivative and the protagonist is tiresome. I’m done. #horrorsky

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  • Mutual I'm Sure @mutualimsure.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 24, 2023

    Today's matinee movie is The Sentinel (1977) 🍿📽️ filmsky

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  • Beware! The Robb @liondennrobb.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 15, 2026

    Post a movie that doesn't get enough love but should! You know what? I'm going with The Sentinel (1977). Its a remarkable film from the golden era of horror and deserves just as much love & respect as The Exorcist, TCM, Dawn of the Dead, Halloween, The Omen, Carrie, etc...

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  • 𝐆𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐯𝐨 🎟️🎢 👻🍂 👀 🫳🏼🍿 📚 @runningonfilms.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 10, 2026

    It’s a rest day for me (still healing from my surgery) and a lovely stormy day out, so it’s movies, movies, movies all day. Next #Movie starts… now. #NowWatching The Sentinel (1977) 🟠🟢🔵: boxd.it/1HoG 👀 🫳🏼🍿 #Filmsky #Horrorsky #Moviesky

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  • THEE NWMagpie - I Don't Argue With Ppl John Brown Would've Shot @thenwmagpie.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 29, 2025

    7 - "The Sentinel." I haven't watched it since, but it scared the shit out of me. It was years before I could sleep without a night light, thanks to that film.

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  • Joe Lipsett @joelipsett.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 3, 2025

    A truly wild movie that was long overdue for coverage. Happy (and bewildered - lol) to finally cross off THE SENTINEL on the pod.

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  • FormerGregSamsa @formergregsamsa.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 20, 2024

    I have for some reason never heard of the 1977 film 'The Sentinel'. We just started watching it and my husband was first annoyed I kept shouting out the cast credit names, and then agreeing they were worthy of surprise. When 'Jerry Orbach' appeared we both passed out. Marlowe had to revive us.

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  • Connie Jo Wolf @conniewolf.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 16, 2026

    Today, we're gonna post any 4 horror movies with a nun. #HorrorFam #horrorsky #filmsky #moviesky #Horror #HorrorMovies "The Sentinel" (1977) "Sister Krampus" (2021) "A Nun's Curse" (2019) and the obvious "The Conjuring 2" (2016)

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  • Katharina Kubrick @kk53.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 3, 2026

    His short story The Sentinel is what inspired Stanley to make the movie. Arthur was then involved from the very beginning in the making of the movie.

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  • Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 26, 2025

    Unrelatedly, The Sentinel is a pretty decent flick! It has a half-dozen Future Very Famous People in extremely small roles, which is fun. It has peak late-70s sex for the sake of being shocking, which gets a bit tiresome? But the overall film is a treat.

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  • Vanessa Morgan @eeriestories.bsky.socialBluesky · May 18, 2025

    Movie Cat of the Week is Jezebel from Michael Winner's THE SENTINEL (1977). His owner (Burgess Meredith) throws Jezebel a birthday party and invites all the neighbors... who are incarnations of evil. Read more: MEOW! CATS IN HORROR, SCI-FI, AND FANTASY MOVIES. #cats #birthdaycat #meow #horrormovie

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  • 👻Michael J. Riser𖤐🧊❌👑 @michaeljriser.comBluesky · Feb 5, 2025

    For a "zomg satan" movie of its era, The Sentinel has a lot going for it. A mystery, spooky stuff, a compelling lead. Lost me at the end, and the use of some "hey let's ogle the deformed and disabled people" wasn't great, but overall: still better than The Exorcist. 👻🎥 #horror #horrorsky #filmsky

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  • danielleri @danielleri.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 10, 2024

    Somehow had never seen The Sentinel before tonight (aside from one obvious and hilarious lesbian scene) and oh my god this movie is amazing: it has everything! ghosts! Devils! Jeff Goldblum! 70s Brooklyn! Catholic fuckery! Lesbians! A cat in a party hat!

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  • Heather Reynolds @heatherreynoldsart.comBluesky · Nov 8, 2024

    Tonight’s movie: The Sentinel - kooky evil weirdness in one of those dreamy 1970s New York apartments letterboxd.com/film/the-sen...

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  • Big Papa Nito @bigpapanito.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 16, 2023

    The week's film The Sentinel (1977)

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  • Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 2, 2026

    "We're looking to let our hair down a little bit, squeezing in some coverage of the outer boroughs. Nothing like you're used to, of course. This is, after all, The Sentinel. We cover the world." -- Editor of the New York "Sentinel" in the 1993 movie The Paper.

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  • David Thomas MooahahahAHAHA! @dtmooreeditor.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 13, 2026

    BUUUT both the film and the book are inspired by the Clarke story "The Sentinel," about an alien structure on the Moon which humanity accidentally destroys, which Kubrick optioned from Clarke. so arguably the film, although not an adaption of the novel, is an adaptation of the *story*.

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  • David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 6, 2026

    Remembering the great John Carradine, classic film character actor on his 120th birthday, seminal for many roles in films including CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS, STAGECOACH, THE GRAPES OF WRATH, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE LAST HURRAH, THE SENTINEL, THE HOWLING, PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED, among others.

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  • Justin McElroy @thoughtographic.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 6, 2025

    The Sentinel This movie builds to a pretty crazy ending.

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  • Morgan's Not Here Mrs. Torrance @morganruble.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 24, 2025

    @therealsnicks.bsky.social @roni1133.bsky.social Saw one of my fave 70s horror paperback, THE SENTINEL, had a movie adaptation! On one hand its a rehash of ROSEMARY'S BABY & THE EXORCIST but on the other hand Burgess Meredith has a birthday party for his cat & Beverly DAngelo plays a nympho lesbian.

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  • The Rori Horror Picture Show @missrori.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 8, 2026

    That the horror movie reference here is Michael Winner's The Sentinel is the Joe Dante difference #TheBurbs #TCMParty

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  • Tim Hill of Antifa, #FBPE @tjrh.ukBluesky · May 25, 2026

    Just a small issue with the #bbcbreakfast quiz which incorrectly claimed that 2001: A Space Odyssey was based on the book of the same name by Arthur C. Clark. It was based in part on the short story The Sentinel. The 2001 book came from the film. </nerd>

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  • CC @cckirby.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 19, 2026

    28. The Sentinel has been on my list for movies I've needed to watch for a good long while. A horror movie with Burgess Meredith, Jerry Orbach, and Martin Balsam, three of my favorite actors of all time? How was I NOT going to love this letterboxd.com/cckirby/film...

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  • 𝙳𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚢 𝙳𝚎𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚜 @dusty40horror.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 14, 2025

    #Horror365Challenge 287/365: The Sentinel (1977) Solid film overall.

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  • Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 26, 2025

    I can't say I *recommend* The Sentinel, there's nothing special about it. But I've rewatched it three Octobers in a row? It's a VERY 1970s horror film. You get what you get. But it's a solid 3 out of 5 stars, and it's on Netflix, and I enjoy it!

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  • Billie Cassin @billiecassin.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 20, 2025

    I just saw him last weekend when I watched The Sentinel. Jam packed with talent, that movie. Not a good movie, but jam packed.

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  • Halloween Candi 👻 | Horror Writer | Book Reviews @candikat.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 17, 2025

    Movie 89: The Sentinel (1977) Netflix #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days #HorrorSky #HorrorMovies #Horror candikathorror.com/watches/the-sentinel-1977

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  • James Enge @jamesenge.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 15, 2025

    Shocktober 14: THE SENTINEL (1977). The greatest horror in this film is the misuse of a numerous cast of great actors from several generations whose efforts are wholly wasted here. There were some genuinely creepy moments, as in the infernal birthday party of Mortimer the cat (1/x)

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  • Megan @forestfauxx.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 14, 2025

    #NowWatching Film 22 of 31 The Sentinel (1977) dir. Michael Winner

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  • Fred McNamara - ALL SECTIONS ALPHA is out NOW! 🌔 @commandermac.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 6, 2025

    Don't think I also fully realised that this compilation films opens with a swift inclusion of the Sentinel Base logo at the start of the film to help you believe that Sun Probe and Ricochet are one unified set of events. Lolz.

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  • Girl Reanimator @fireblossom32.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 29, 2025

    I love 70's movies like "The Sentinel", "Burnt Offerings" and others but had never watched or even heard of "Don't Look Now" (1973). Just watched it and it makes no sense at all. I love Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie not so much, but this movie just left me going "Whaaaaaa???" #filmsky

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  • Pavol @pmatula.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 1, 2025

    The Sentinel, a 2000s thriller with all the 2000s things (affair, certain type of movie logic, unrealism, "interesting" use of technology, the look etc.), but it was engaging and entertaining enough, largely due to good cast and just its premise and execution. Solid. #FilmSky #MovieSky

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  • Annie @badgrgrl21.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 5, 2025

    Well, somebody obviously saw “The Sentinel!” A movie way more successful with atmosphere than with plot… We reconvene in about 20 minutes for Dagon. youtu.be/muGHl-Endow?... #fullmoonfrights

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  • Josh Lagle @joshlagle.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 23, 2025

    Now watching: THE SENTINEL Every apartment building in a 70s NYC horror joint *has* to have a gateway to Hell in the basement (next to the laundry room). The cast list for this one is kind of wild. #filmsky

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  • The Nephilim @thenephilim.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 16, 2025

    📽️Review - Sentinel (2024) Sentinel, set in a post-apocalyptic future, sadly has no connection to Judas Priest’s iconic “The Sentinel,” a song that could inspire a great post apocalyptic film of its own. www.voicesfromthebalcony.com/2025/01/15/s... #filmsky #moviesky #moviereview

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  • Lamarr Hawkins @wlhawkins.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 28, 2024

    The Sentinel - 1977 I would have put up with those pervy ghosts for that Brooklyn Heights apartment. And how are you going to cast Christopher Walken as the detective's partner and barely give him 3 lines? 8/10 #MichaelWinner #CristinaRaines #BurgessMeredith #MovieReview 📽️ #Horror #FilmSky

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  • Matt Wedge @thewedgeserpent.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 20, 2024

    Watched the Michael Winner movie THE SENTINEL tonight for the first time. Not nearly as offensive as I expected it to be, but holy shit, what a cast: Chris Sarandon, Burgess Meredith, Arthur Kennedy, John Carradine, Eli Wallace, Ava Gardner, Jose Ferrer, Jerry Orbach, Beverly D’Angelo, 1/2

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  • Jay Adan - Painter of Things @jayadan.comBluesky · Oct 7, 2023

    I watched the 1977 horror film "The Sentinel" today which is.. not great. On the other hand it's filled with up and coming stars like this 20 year old Nana Visitor -

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  • Darksune @darksune.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 19, 2026

    2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, who co-wrote the screenplay with Arthur C. Clarke. Its plot was inspired by several short stories from Clarke, primarily "The Sentinel" (1951) and "Encounter in the Dawn" (1953). See ALT for more...

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