It was also the first feature film to use digital image processing to pixellate photography to simulate an android point of view.
The film was from an original screenplay by Crichton, and was his first theatrical film as director, after one TV film. It stars Yul Brynner as an android in a futuristic Western-themed amusement park, with Richard Benjamin and James Brolin as guests of the park. Its plot revolves around adult guests visiting an interactive amusement park containing lifelike androids that unexpectedly begin to malfunction. Westworld is a 1973 American science-fiction Western film written and directed by Michael Crichton.
