Idaho Transfer
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Karen at the transfer station;
Cover of the Dutch VHS release |
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| Directed by | Peter Fonda |
| Produced by | William Hayward Anthony Mazzola |
| Written by | Thomas Matthiesen |
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Kelley Bohanon Kevin Hearst Dale Hopkins Keith Carradine |
| Music by | Bruce Langhorne |
| Cinematography | Bruce Logan |
| Edited by | Chuck McClelland |
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| Distributed by | Cinemation Industries |
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86 mins |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Idaho Transfer is a 1973 science fiction film directed by Peter Fonda. It stars Kelley Bohanon, Kevin Hearst, Dale Hopkins, and Keith Carradine.
Teenager Karen Braden (Kelley Bohanon) is a troubled mental hospital outpatient who is taken by her father George and sister Isa to a government facility near the Craters of the Moon lava fields in Idaho. The project there was commissioned to develop matter transference, but made a different discovery: time travel. They also discovered that a mysterious ecological catastrophe will soon wipe out civilization.
The time travel process has negative health effects, though. Adults "not much older than 20" are unable to survive for long, as their kidneys hemorrhage shortly after the experience. So the scientists decide to only send young people 56 years into the future so they can build a new civilization.
After the government takes over the project, the transfer machines are turned off, trapping a large number of project members in the future. Now trapped, they begin exploring the future world. The last survivor from the project is picked up by a family dressed in futuristic clothing. She is placed alive in the trunk of their car, ostensibly to be used as fuel. The small girl in the back seat asks what will happen when they run out of them (people from the past ?) "Will we have to use each other, then?"
Most of the cast were unknowns who did not go further in the motion picture industry.
The film was produced by Peter Fonda's Pando Company, in association with Marrianne Santas; it was copyrighted to Kathleen Film Production Company in 1973. Principal shooting took place in Arco, Idaho, Craters of the Moon National Park, and Bruneau Sand Dunes State Park. Castmember Earl Crabb also cites Bellevue, Washington as a location.
The end credits conclude with the Latin phrase "Esto Perpetua". Translated, it means "Let it be perpetual" or "It is forever"; appropriate for a time travel film, it is also the motto of the state of Idaho. Fonda either neglected, or did not wish to renew his rights on this film, and according to several sources, the movie passed into Public Domain.
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