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| Marlon Brando | Jor-El | |
| Gene Hackman | Lex Luthor | |
| Christopher Reeve | Clark Kent/Superman | |
| Margot Kidder | Lois Lane | |
| Ned Beatty | Otis | |
| Jackie Cooper | Perry White | |
| Glenn Ford | Jonathan Kent | |
| Trevor Howard | First Elder | |
| Jack O'Halloran | Non | |
| Valerie Perrine | Eve Teschmacher | |
| Maria Schell | Vond-Ah | |
| Terence Stamp | General Zod | |
| Phyllis Thaxter | Martha Kent | |
| Susannah York | Lara | 
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| Producer | Pierre Spengler
               Alexander Salkind Richard Lester  | 
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| Writer | Robert Benton
               David Newman Jerry Siegel Joe Shuster  | 
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| Cinematography | Geoffrey Unsworth
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             An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest super-hero.  | 
        
            
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