This articles plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Directed by luigi cozzi special fx by armando valcauda music by john barry. They are offered clemency if they help find two more missing escape pods as well as the mothership, one of which may contain the. It got star trek the far superior of the two franchises back into business, with the curiously terrific star trek. Two former space smugglers are given the task to investigate the haunted stars for an evil counts battlestation.
Tbonz on may 14 stewart drops hints on picard season two by. Starcrash is one hour and thirty one minutes and was released in the united states on march 7, 1979. Epic action in outer space when the good guys set out to. John barry starcrash original motion picture soundtrack. Caroline munro in starcrash 1978 nadia cassini and judd hamilton in. One of the things that helped to raise the film above its obvious limitations was the soundtrack. Tbonz on may 6 mcneill and wang trying to revive captain proton. See more ideas about sci fi movies, caroline munro and sci fi.
Starcrash represents an early foray for the composer into the realm of science fiction and he would soon return again when he worked in 1979 on the black hole, disneys attempt to compete with rival studios in the wake of star wars and moonraker, that years entry in the james bond series, which featured many science fiction elements. The dialogue and special effects are so bad that its laugh out loud funny from time to time. In part four of a gauntlet sixmovie binge, jonah and the bots take on the 1979 film the day time ended. Movies like red zone cuba and manos are about as close to genuinely unwatchable as films get. The film is notorious for using stock footage from starcrash for all its model scenes. Italian schlockmaster luigi cozzi billed as lewis coates here directed this lowbudget star wars ripoff in 1978, right when the scifi craze was hitting audiences on a worldwide scale. There is always so much potential for the series and i wish that the series would ponyup money for at least one of episode of the series so we got a bigger movie like they did with mst3k. After that success, gortner embarked on a brief acting career, with roles in the film earthquake 1974, the 1973 pilot for the tv detective. Factory serves up firstrun feature films, original, contemporary, and classic tv series. Pg, 1 hr 32 min tell us where you are looking for movie tickets.
The cast includes marjoe gortner, caroline munro, christopher plummer, david hasselhoff and joe spinell. She looks like every barbie in a goodwill toy bundle. Trailer for a fanfilm tribute to the classic 70s space adventure, soon to appear on you tube. According to, this movie was nominated for something called a saturn award in 1980 for best foreign film. Did you know that before david hasselhoff was the knight rider, he was a lean, mean lightsaberfighting machine in the movie starcrash. Overview of starcrash, 1979, directed by luigi cozzi, with marjoe gortner, caroline munro, christopher plummer, at turner classic movies.
The movie i think criticism of the series is more from people who were used to the original series because there was a lot of criticism with mike. Marjoe gortner and caroline munro are a pair of space smugglers recruited to rescue the emperor of the galaxys son and discover the secret weapon of the evil count zarth arn joe spinnell in the italian star wars ripoff starcrash 1978. Disc 2 also includes the screenplay in pdf format, complete with storyboards and early conceptual art. The main story is that stella star, akton and elle, under the orders of the emperor, set off to find count zarth arn secret weapon on a hidden planet and to find the. Starcrash isnt a good movie by any means but at the end of the day its just a generic star wars rip off with bmovie actors and low budget effects, the likes of which were a. The black hole 1979 a 1950s adventure film tricked out with cuttingedge seventies effects, disneys first pgrated film updates 20,000 leagues under the sea as a deepspace dance with. The other inspiration of starcrash is only slightly less obvious, and that is barbarella, what with the weapons that all look like objets dart and the onedamnedthingafteranother plot. She doesnt strip, but caroline spends a lot of the movie in a space bikini that shows off her chest rockets and rear thrusters. The making of the special effects of starcrash, a film by fx director, armando valcauda his other wellknown credit is the humanoid 1979, a film that benefits from eurosleaze babe, corrine clery, which includes some surprisingly good. An outlaw smuggler and her alien companion are recruited by the emperor of the galaxy to rescue his son and destroy a secret weapon by the evil count zarth arn. I guess every member of that panel is blind and deaf. Financial analysis of starcrash 1979 including budget, domestic and international box office gross, dvd and bluray sales reports, total earnings and profitability.
Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and. Escape from galaxy 3 original title giochi erotici nella terza galassia also known as starcrash ii is an italian 1981 science fiction film. None of the season 12 episodes really deserve to occupy a sole. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing starcrash near you. And the star of the movie is the gorgeous caroline munro. Starcrash soundtrack from 1979, composed by john barry. John barry only agreed to write it after watching a rough cut of the film, which he thought was fun. Audio commentary by writer and starcrash expert stephen romano a look at the films special effects with special effects director armando valcauda including unused footage, rare.
Now, for the first time on bluray, the film is presented in a deluxe twodisc. Starcrash is a 1978 american space opera film directed by luigi cozzi and written by cozzi. Released by bsx records in 2008 bsxcd 8846 containing music from starcrash 1978. Read famous quotes from starcrash, 1979, directed by luigi cozzi, with marjoe gortner, caroline munro, christopher plummer. In a distant galaxy, aboard a space station, princess belle star sherry buchanan approaches her father king. With marjoe gortner, caroline munro, christopher plummer, david hasselhoff. New york muslim charity donates food to homeless during ramadan in lockdown.
Starcrash cast and crew cast photos and info fandango. Starcrash is halfway between that movie and an exploitation movie. Thats enough whimsy for me i think, so lets talk starcrash, or as its known in some circles the adventures of stella star, following on the success of star wars every studio with more than half a nickel wanted in on the science fiction money bonanza that. Women take over the universe, as the galaxies collide, but do they handle power differently. Starcrash was a low budget italian film made to cash in on star wars. Luigi cozzis fan favorite starcrash finds a home on dvd for the 1st time.