Star Crash

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Starcrash (original Italian title Scontri stellari oltre la terza dimensione, literally "stellar crash beyond the third dimension") is an Italian 1979 Science Fiction Film, which was also released under the English title of The Adventures of Stella Star (in the US). The screenplay was written by Luigi Cozzi (pen name Lewis Coates) and Nat Wachsberger, and Cozzi also directed the film. The cast included Marjoe Gortner, Caroline Munro, Robert Tessier, Christopher Plummer, David Hasselhoff, Joe Spinell and Hamilton Camp.

It was filmed in Technicolor with Dolby sound, and has a runtime of 94 minutes. The US release is 92 minutes, and received an MPAA rating of PG. The movie is generally regarded by critics as a campy B Film with cheap special effects and a weak, derivative plot that some people find unintentionally humorous. It appeared a many years before Star Wars 4, which tried to re-mix the same elements, but without much success.

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[edit] Similarities to Star Wars

  • Both lead characters are Blonde, white men, who use laserswords as weapons.
  • Both films romanticize smugglers
  • Both films feature extended outer space battle sequences - Star Crash with it's Imperial Battle Cruisers and Star Wars with Star Destroyer
  • Both films feature robot characters
  • Star Crash features it's lead heroine in a very skimpy outfit. It would take Lucas until Star Wars 6 to accomplish this.
  • Both films were originally shot in Italian and dubbed over with English to make it more palatable for American audiences.
  • Both films feature space pods that shoot human beings off like a torpedo.
  • Both films feature a desert planet at the beginning and both finales take place on a large space ship.
  • Both films feature a character with the last name Solo.
  • Both films feature the weakest of the band of heroes fighting a creature many times their size.

For many people, it is hard to believe that these similarities are mere coincidence

[edit] Plot

The lead in this film is the sexy smuggler Stella Star (Munro) accompanied by her sidekick Akton (Gortner). They are being pursued by the Chief of the Galactic Police, Thor (Tessier) and the police robot Elle (Camp). After they are captured and sentenced to hard labor (with Star for some reason retaining her sexy garb in the prison camp), the galactic emperor (Plummer) commutes their sentences in return for their aid in tracking down a missing ship.

The ship in question was seeking the hideout of the bad guy, Count Zarth Arn (Spinell), who has developed a secret super-weapon. The vessel was also carrying the emperor's only son. Stella and companions set out on their search, traveling to several planets, including a world of Amazons, an ice planet where they are betrayed by Thor, and a world of Neanderthals where they discover a lifeboat from the lost ship. On the last, Stella is rescued by Simon (Hasselhoff), the Emperor's son. At the planet's core is Zarth Arn's secret base.

Much mayhem ensues. The emperor is defeated by Zarth, but Stella and the robot Elle manage to destroy the evil Count in his fist-shaped space fortress. Stella and Simon fall in love and the film ends.

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