kind of embarrassing but...
...I think this film rocks! And it's the same age I am
I can't even tell you why. It is absolutely preposterous, but every time I catch it on the telly I can't tear my eyes away.
I only ever saw it for the first time a few years ago, and I was surprised I had never even heard of it before.
The premise isn't very exciting, but I find the story compelling. 'Sanctuary' is far from what they were expecting, Peter Ustinov and some mangy cats. I always wondered why someone would choose to live on Capitol Hill, if they had pretty much the entire planet to choose from? And where there lots of other little communes, or was that the only remnant of humanity?
I believe there was a very short lived series based on this movie shortly afterwards - it might have been called "Sandman", or something to that effect.
Plot Outline from IMDB:
It is 2274. Some type of holocaust has decimated the earth, and the survivors sealed themselves into a domed city near Washington, D.C. To maintain the population balance, the computers that run the city have decreed that all people must die at 30. This system is enforced by "sandmen" : black-clad police operatives who terminate (kill) "runners" (those who attempt to live beyond 30). Logan, a sandman, is sent on a mission to find "sanctuary," which is a code- word used by the master computer to describe what it believes is a place to which runners have been escaping. Logan begins to question the system he serves and after seeing for himself that there is life beyond the dome, he returns to destroy the computer.