Star Wars ripped off David Hasselhoff and Roger Corman | So Bad It's Good 261 - Starcrash
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Starcrash is a shockingly dumb movie that manages to ripoff Star Wars while also being ripped off by Star Wars. It's a wild ride.
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"There was a time when Star Wars was heavily ripped off"
Yeah Disney been doing for a while now
Haha, so true.
Zing!
Less ripping-off than murdering and desecrating the corpse of Star Wars, but fair enough.
Disney has been ripping it apart, not off lol.
The female lead was in "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad." Killer stop-motion film from the 70's. Watched it often from the rental store.
As well as "Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter".
I've only seen clips. Never watched it.
@@JasonBrant Worth a watch, The story is terrible but the stop motion is killer.
It's Ray Harryhausen so you know the stop motion work is fantastic. :)
Please watch the Golden Voyage. The bad guy is great!
Music was done by, John Barry. Yes, the, "James Bond," John Barry.
From IMDB, "The filmmakers were highly reluctant to allow John Barry to see the film, in case he decided to quit the project."
😄😄lolol
😂
Not letting him see the movie was a brilliant move.
This was basically a paid Italian vacation for Christopher Plummer. Caroline Munro played the helicopter pilot who attacked James Bond in his submarine car in "The Spy Who Loved Me".
Good catch on Munro and her Bond appearance!
Not a bad way to get a paid vacation.
Her voice was dubbed as she's English. Presumably for the US market
I don’t care what kind of vacation this paid for, how could Christopher Plummer appear in this piece of shite?
@@josephhubisz8610 He said it was because they filmed in Rome and he loves Rome so much he would have done it for the free trip there even if it was a porn movie.
I miss Roger Corman Ripoff movies, Come back 1980's, ALL is forgiven.
Love his stuff.
@@JasonBrantThis isn't a Corman production though, as he only distributed the movie in the US.
"Starcrash" is from 1978, not the 1980s. Nothing about this movie is "1980s". And it's not a Corman movie, he had nothing to do with it, creatively. It was just distributed through Corman's New World Pictures.
If you want to heap blame or praise on somebody for it, that should all go to Luigi Cozzi and Nat Wachsberger.
@@henrygvidonas9573 I stand by what I said, if you don't like it, tell somebody who cares.
@@bertberto5671 Ok, but what you said was a bit wrong.
Marjoe Gortner chews scenery, Caroline Munro looks baffled, Christopher Plummer looks embarrassed and the Hoff is a small role, it's demented fun.
Well said.
Plummer said the only reason he got involved was because it was shot in Rome. He just really really wanted to go to Rome. This was one of Hasselhoff's first credited movie roles.
Yeah I forgot the Goff was in it!
@@ferdonandebull THE GOFF was in it?!? Dammit, I missed it, what's the timestamp?!?
Marjoe Gortner?! Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time...long time...
Caroline Munroe is the best part of this movie!
And the space perms.
Now repeat that really fast many times ;)
She's easy on the eyes.
@@JasonBrantHowever that is not her voice. She was unavailable for dubbing, so that is the voice of Candy Clark (American Graffiti, Man Who Fell To Earth and Amityville 3-D). Caroline Munro is actually British.
Wikipedia: Plummer said of the filming, "Give me Rome any day. I'll do porno in Rome, as long as I can get to Rome. Getting to Rome was the greatest thing that happened in that for me. I think it was only about three days in Rome on that one. It was all shot at once". Discussing his role as the Emperor, he said, "How can you play the Emperor of The Universe? What a wonderful part to play. It puts God in a very dicey moment, doesn't it? He's very insecure, God, when the Emperor’s around." Just love him.
He hung out in Rome and stopped the flow of time. Legend.
Lol
The guy with the curly hair is Marjoe Gortner. He was actually a child faith healer starting at 4 years of age. They made a movie about his real life called "Marjoe" in 1972 where he revealed how the scams worked.
Wow I made close to the same comment but you said it better
@@hirevhoon7474 Thanks😊👍
Never heard of him before this.
@@JasonBrant If you can find the documentary, it is definitely worth watching. It has 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and won the Oscar for best documentary in 1972. I think it might be in Tubi.
Also in "Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw" with Lynda Carter
The main lady is Caroline Monroe, she was in a few Hammer Horror movies and is a real Scream Queen.
I'm a new fan.
Oh wow that's who it was, I should have reconsided her.
@@JasonBrantThat deserves a "how did you not know who she is?" :D
She's in this slasher movie that takes place at a high school reunion, all British actors but they're all doing terrible American accents. It's awesome. I forgot the title. EDIT: Slaughter High. It's crazy.
@@themoviedealersoh these slasher movies with school guys played by over-thirty men and women 😂
I saw this one and it reminded me of Terror Train with Jamie Lee Curtis, it all started with a prank ,prepared for four-eyed nerd, gone wrong and his subsequent killing spree.
Jason: We're watching a Star Wars rip-off, called Star Crash. It's a Roger Corman movie. What are we drinking?
Brian: We're drinking...
Cerveza Cristal!
What?
@@JasonBrant😂 the edited in Cerveza Cristal commercials. Give it a quick TH-cam/Google, it’s well worth it.
@compsigh9275 someone please send them some Cerveza Cristals! It would be hilarious to see a video with interspersed Cerveza Cristal ads 🤣
Fun fact: "Star Crash" had a sequel called "Escape from Galaxy 3" and a sort of prequel called "War of the Robots". While "Star Crash" was heavily influenced by "Star Wars", the other two movies have no such inspiration. Furthermore, all three of those movies have absolutely nothing in common with each other besides the director.
"Escape from Galaxy 3" is fairly boring after the first 20 mins and centers around the main characters re-learning what love and sex is... you know, normal things for immortals. It also features a random disco dance number in the middle of the movie.
"War of the Robots" is fairly standard Italian sci-fi nonsense, but they have some halfway decent sets, many of which rank right up there with TOS Star Trek. It's kind of slow and the plot doesn't make much sense, but it's still fun to watch because they do some really interesting things with the laser weapons to make it look like they light up without actually using any post work.
If you're ever interested in a list of Star Wars-esque movies, I have a list on IMDB, it's currently over 40 movies, some right up to a few years ago too.
I'll see if I have copies of those. So far, I'm digging the Star Wars ripoffs.
Three awesome things about this flick:
1. Christopher Plummer as the Emperor, surprisingly reciting his lines as if he’s dealing with Shakespeare.
2. Joe Spinell as Zarth Arn, obviously having a ball chewing the scenery, extras and all.
3. John Barry score, which is really good for some reason.
I've read that Barry was commissioned to produce the score without actually seeing the movie. That certainly tracks; I can't imagine even _him_ putting any effort into such a slapdash mess after watching it, let alone such a catchy theme.
But best of all the smouldering Caroline Munro in her space-dominatrix get-up.
All excellent things.
Plus: A 'Maniac' Reunion, since Joe Spinell and Caroline Munro starred in both.
Glad you guys finally got to this one!!! Roger Corman had a saying, if you don't want to be accused of ripping off a movie, ripoff a bunch in your movie
The bald guy is Robert Tessier.
His well known movies..., Last of the Mohicans, The Cannonball Run, The Sword and the Sorcerer.
And he was in a lot of Series..., Kung Fu, Starsky and Hutch, Buck Rogers, The Incredible Hulk, The Fall Guy, Sledge Hammer, Mainmal, The Dukes of Hazzard and Magnum.
And Future Force, most importantly.
And the original THE LONGEST YARD.
@@mikeadams8027 "He broke by dose! He broke by dose!" "Shockner, say you're sorry."
And Indiana Jones
Yep, he was in a lot of movies,..I remember him from Hard Times starring Charles Bronson(good movie), and The Longest Yard starring Burt Reynolds.
We need a Jason Brant & Brandon Tenold collab.
No one in their right mind would want to work with me 🤣
@JasonBrant I think you and Brandon would have a swell time chatting about bad films.
@@JasonBrant well, that Viking guy actually LIKES Sifu Seagull, he's obviously nuts!🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@JasonBrantBrandon would just drool over Caroline Munro, which he does quite often. Can't really blame him.
No. That would trigger the apocalypse! Which makes it rather ironic, as it's Easter Sunday. Ironic, or fitting. I'm not sure.
My Good Bad Movie Club watched this last year, and we had a blast watching it. So low budget, writing is a little inconsistent, but that Caroline Munroe is a sight to behold
Caroline Munro 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
A little inconsistent, haha. And yeah, she's gorgeous.
The script for Star Crash was actually penned before Star Wars was released. Corman did do a straight up Star Wars ripoff in 1980 called Battle beyond the stars. While Lucas had reused a Kurosawa story called The Hidden Fortress for Star Wars, Corman reused another Kurosawa story called The Seven Samurai. He got some off cuts from the composer of Star Trek 2 and 3 for it to give it a more epic feel. He also reused that music and many of the spaceship VFX in countless other moves he made in the years after.
Yeah but unlike star crash that is an actual watchable movie
Fun Fact: The female lead (Caroline Munro) is an English actress but the studio didn't like it so her voice is dubbed over in the film. They also stopped putting her in sexy outfits about halfway in the film so it could be geared for a "family" audience like Star Wars.
"I'm old, fat and drunk" will be the title of my autobiography.
“Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.” - Dean Wormer
From Trivia: David Hasselhoff got food poisoning during shooting so a production assistant in a mask filled in for a significant number of scenes. Hasselhoff also did most of his own stunts. On his first day of stunt work, he accidentally knocked out an Italian stuntman's tooth.
Similarly in Knight Rider, he received training on the track and was actually able to do most stuntdriving himself. He just got banned from stuntdriving except from low-speed stunts after he totalled a car with working digidash, the stunt team warned was unsuitable for stuntdriving, but be he was ordered to do a high speed stunt in it anyway because he was the only person allowed by Universal to drive it, and it was the only car available for the moment. Apparently Hasselhoff did not expect a car with sock suspension and open differential to misbehave as badly as it did in comparision to stuntcars and when it got away he couldn't control it having the airplane like handlebar instead of a proper steering wheel.
9:50 - "I know....let's rip off the Talos sequence from Jason and the Argonauts"
🤣🤣
I saw that as well.😂😂😂😂🤦♂️🤦♂️
Yeah, but...since we don't have the budget to get Harryhausen, let's do the effects in our backyard.
9:54 (Ray Harryhausen files a lawsuit)
🤣
"Your honor, our stop-motion monster is _clearly_ unrelated to Talos! Ours has boobies with nut nipples!"
It's a tough call on which movie has the worse stop-motion effects: this turd, or _Jack the Giant Killer_ with its goofy-looking _Gumby_ monsters.
@@ScreamingScallop I‘d say the effects in Luigi Cozzi‘s two Hercules-Flicks with Lou Ferrigno are just as bad as those from Starcrash.
Stars do come in different colors, ranging from red, orange, yellow, white and blue. So technically the stars here are mostly correct, the purple ones being the exception. Oddly enough though, people think our Sun is yellow but it's actually a white star.
Found Neil Tysons TH-cam account!
@@TheGhostofJTWalsh Shhh, it's a secret.
No love for Caroline Monroe? She is amazing..
Yes, Jason, Joe Spinell was the low level mobster in Rocky. Your encyclopedic knowledge of small time character actors is truly impressive!!
The man knows his shtako!
@@megatronjenkins2473 and then he got the guy from Future Force! If they ever make a trivia game for C- tier character actors, he's gonna dominate!
That title billing may have been done later on the newer video releases after Hasselhoff got famous on Knight Rider.
This is an italian production. Corman only distributed it in the US, so not part of the making of the movie. And Joe Spinell did a great job, as a psycho, in The Maniac, from 1980, with FX by Tom Savini 👍
It's Spinelli.
This was done by Luigi Cozzi. I sent in another of his films a bit back 'Sinbad of the Seven Seas' with Lou Ferrigno.
Caroline Munro was basically UKs scream queen during the 70s & appeared in loads of sci fi, fantasy & horror films & was the helicopter pilot who attacks Bonds lotus in The Spy Who Loved Me.
Hilarious reactions, The Hoff is a legend & i remember watching Knight Rider in the 80s during my childhood & to this day still watch it.
The bald dude is the same one that appears in Hard time with Charles Bronson Remember? Hard Times the bare knuckle fighter?
Robert Tessier also played with David Carradine in future force.
Never seen it.
Great film. Cast, music, fighting, directing from Walter Hill.
Korean War vet.
Titled "The Streetfighter" in Australia, for some reason.
Those opening shots of the "spaceship" look like the intro for MST3K or "Space Ghost: Coast to Coast" lol.
haha
This isn't just ripping off Star Wars, but 2001, and Jason and the Argonauts.
Its stealing to rip off one thing but art to rip off three films.
We get jason and brian sitting here watchin the movie, and not one reference to the girls outfits and hair.... Where is erin! Erin would be all "ohhh that woman is IN.SHAPE!
"Look.. look at that hair and outfit! You get it girl!"
Erin!come back!
This film would help Erin heal after watching 'Hobo with a Shotgun'.
You had me at Star Wars. Unlike Disney…
Way more entertaining than Disney Star Wars.
@@JasonBrantAndor rules
@@JasonBrant Gonna have to break with you on this one Jason. Last Jedi is a good movie and I will die on that hill.
Every character in Star Crash had more character development than Rey.
@@RyllenKriel you’re wasting your breath
Murray Leinster Was a prolific genre writer, particularly of Science Fiction. Born at the end of the 19th Century. His first Science Fiction story was published in 1918 and his last in 1966.Peace All
Rolling Stone included this gem in their "50 Best Sci-Fi Movies of the 70s". To keep things into perspective, Rolling Stone never like Led Zeppelin in the 70s.
And now Rolling Stone shills for Big Pharma and the global elites. Totally sold out.
I'm not sure if anyone mentioned this but it is not really a Roger Corman film. While his company New World Pictures did pick it up for distribution in the US, it was written and directed by Italian Luigi Cozzi and produced by a father/son duo from Belgium. The success of this film got Roger to produce his own "Star Wars" rip-off called "Battle Beyond the Stars", which was more of a remake of "Seven Samurai".
I was coming here to point this out myself. “Battle Beyond the Stars” is definitely worth a look for you guys, if for no other reason than to see some of James Cameron’s early model work. Oh, and the spaceship with boobs. 😆
Marjoe Gortner! Guy was an evangelist and did a documentary revealing all his fake faith healer scams before quitting the racket.
No clue who that is.
He was the psycho Army guy in "Earthquake".
@@JasonBrant the curly haired blonde guy
He was also in the crappy 'Food of the Gods' adaptation. Another so bad it's good contender 😅
@@SeanRoberts-x9m that would be a good one for them to review; I think it was Ida Lupino's last movie, which is a hell of a way to go out for Hollywood's first female director
'StarCrash' is AI generated art, attempting to retell Star Wars thru chat-gp, before either was a thing.
My wife's confused face when she walks in, and you and Briam are chanting our last name... one "L" and an "E"..
When she jumps out the window in slo-mo, all I could think of was the scene from The Simpsons, "The PTA has disbanded!" and then he jumps out the window.
What blew my mind was Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me with Barbara Bach playing KGB agent XXX and Caroline Monroe as the lead Henchwoman alongside Richard Kiel (Jaws was a mercenary) for Stromwell. Two legitimate supermodels, actresses and B-movie queens in a A-list movie with Roger Moore and a Lotus Espirit.
The bald guy was a one of the guards in the original Longest Yard
Jar Jar Abrams was in line to direct the Constantine sequel. He's been fighting it since his scam to control merchandise from as many franchises as possible, through his production company Bad Robot, was exposed. He wants to recast Constantine, so he can lock-in the merchandising rights to a DC property. WB wants to make it, also to hold on to the rights, but also to take advantage of Keanu's popularity.
Abrams has apparently burnt some of the wrong bridges.
I remember Abrams trying to pressure Paramount to stop marketing/merchandising the original *Star Trek* in order to make his reboot the default version. I also remember there being a vocal minority of Abrams sycophants (including on the Trek BBS forum of the time) who thought that was a great idea and that Abrams was the future of the franchise. Thankfully, Paramount had the good sense to ignore Abrams and keep the classic material still in circulation, since Abrams' movies had no staying power and were, to put it bluntly, terrible and a total distortion of what *Trek* was all about.
It would also explain Abrams' absolutely revolting reboot pitch for Superman back in 2002 where Krypton wouldn't have exploded, Lex Luthor would have been an undercover Kryptonian spy, the Supersuit was a living thing stored in a can, Superman himself would have been a Neo ripoff complete with fake death scene, and everybody knowing kung fu. Abrams wasn't just trying to skin Superman alive out of artistic hubris; he was likely trying to piggyback on the brand name for his own profit as well.
Caroline Monroe was also in James Bond
Joe Spinell was also in Taxi Driver, Big Wednesday, Maniac, Married to the Mob, Rock 1 and II...guy was a serious character actor. Apparently he was close with Sly Stallone.
Marjoe Gortner had a pretty interesting life, he used to be an evangelical preacher until he started to feel guilty about scamming people, then he released a documentary exposing the dark side of it in the 1970s, it's definitely worth a look. He then quit preaching and started acting, he's been retired for awhile now but still does some charity work.
My niece and I hated that annoying hick robot so much that we were stunned that it was put back together at the end. "Why???"
Caroline Munroe was soooo amanzingly beautiful in this movie. and the whole movie is absolutly brilliant. one of my favorite SW rip offs 😊
Main girl: "I'd better go down."
Everyone watching: "Yes, yes you should."
3:51 Caroline Munro 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰oh, she was so hot!!!! Brandon Tenold has the biggest crush on her🤣🤣🤣
Was? She's still alive... And for her age she doesn't look too bad 😊
She's easy on the eyes.
Brandon's channel is great. :)
@@samholdsworth420 didn't know! (goes and looks) OK ok, still hot!!!!
@@megatronjenkins2473 😆
The bald guy was one of the biggest bad guys of the 70s and 80s another great chracter actor.
First time I saw Starcrash, I missed the opening credits. So when the scene where they reveal Hasselhoff came on I nearly peed my pants from laughing so hard.
@18:17 The Hoff debuted in 'Revenge of the Cheerleaders' a few years prior to this, and that, along with getting established in a recurring role in 'The Young and the Restless', can only warrant a third billing status as a natural course of events. 😄
Someone has probably already mentioned it, but the bald guy is Robert Tessier. The two movies I remembered from are The Longest Yard and The Deep.
Future Force is the only one that matters.
No English person has the right to look as good as the main actress does.
Before becoming "The Lone Crusader in the dangerous world & championing the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless in a world of criminals who operate above the law" Michael Knight operated in Space fighting Aliens with his Laser Sword.
🤣
The bald guy is from the Burt Reynolds movie where they play football in prison. He is the killer who learned karate.
YES!!!! Been waiting for this one. Please do Space Mutiny next!!!! Exclamation marks!!!!
I'll move it up the list!!!!
@@JasonBrant You will LOVE Space Mutiny for just how absurd it is.
You mean the movie with Big McLargehuge in it??? ;)
The robot has the same accent as the animated DNA from Jurassic Park.
You have to watch the interviews with the director. Pure gold!
Where did you find that? Please not a special feature of a DVD
@@ourkeving Yup, they were a special feature of the DVD pack that my friend has. Very hard to find.
@@philo5227 Ty. Oh well.
"....They wrote it before lunch...and then went out drinking...and then shot it that afternoon." - - - I'm die...🤣
Would have been better if Master Seagull was in it 😂
Hell no 🤣
@@JasonBrantbut he's been making Star Wars rip-off films for years, he's an expert 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@JasonBrant Sensei Seagull would have dated the “fembot” 5 minutes into the movie
this film was made after Star Wars ( 1978) , i do remember when this came out early 80s
My older brother took me and my best friend to see 'Starcrash' at the theater. As a huge Ray Harryhausen fan, I was shocked by the janky stop-motion F/X in this thing. But the beautiful Caroline Munro (in skimpy outfits) made up for a LOT.
She may not be the greatest actress but DAMN she knows how to wear a space bikini.
@@paulst1-- Saw someone else mention 'The Golden Voyage of Sinbad.' Ms. Munro looks even better in that one. She's a knockout.
5:25 that's stunt legend Robert Tessier.
You've seen David Carradine knock him out with a remote controlled robot fist.
2:30 You can see the boom lifting the shuttle/fighter off of the main ship. 10/10 special effects.
The bald guy is the “meanest cat in the joint” mean machine with Bert Reynolds
3:49 A neutron perm...or rug...? WOW--Marjoe Gortner, in a Star Warsicle
5:14 You're referring to SLURPEES! 🥤Oh Thank Heaven, for 7/11! :D
5:48 Princess Leia's breakfast pastry hairstyle, grafted onto this dude. Any trope to hang your space hat on...🚀
27:03 Or: Every Frame was a STAR crash🎞💫💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥
You both may not have a clue who the 'major stars' in these cheese whiz projects are--but you NAIL the bit parts! Most impressive.
Icees are a thing, too. Slurpees are sold at 7-11s, and Icees pretty much everywhere else...theaters, other convenience stores, amusement parks, fast food restaurants, etc. The only real difference is the name.
Had no idea--thanks for the clarification! It's Ice and Syrup on a hot day, all the way! :D@@mrcydonia
Bald guy was in Hard Times with Charles Bronson also in original Longest Yard.
I liked when Jason hollered "Jump Cut" and he put a jump cut in the video..lol *Noice*
They hired Caroline Munro; that means they did at least one thing right.
I got mind blown when I saw David Hasselhoff’s name..
But when I saw Christopher Plummer’s…
The bald head dude is from Future Force with Carradine. Edit. I commented before I got to the part where Jason remembered. 😝
Yes! One of my all time favourite bad sci-fi films! There's just so much to love in it. Erin needs to see this, if only to help erase the trauma of 'Hobo with a Shotgun'.
OMFG, favourite best worst movie ever. Caroline Munro’s mimis halt the flow of time!
She’s still very much around, a fixture on the convention circuit, and absolutely lovely.
The special effects were better after I put on my old glasses without the bifocals.
The bald guy is Robert Tessier. I only remember him as Robert Shaw's brother in 'The Deep', but it has the most memorable neck snapping fight scene of any movie ever made.
This was a guilty pleasure of mine from the days of late night TV when bad movies were still in heavy rotation.
Joe Spinnell is one person and one person only: the co-creator of Bill Lustig's "Maniac", a Tom Savini classic.
The bald guy you recognized but couldn’t place was the torturer in Sword & The Sorcerer which I watched about 100 times as a teenager. His name is Robert Tessier.
Emperor Christopher Plumber yelling "Stop the flow of time!" reminded me so much of Steve Carell on The Office yelling "I declare bankruptcy!"
That robot sounds like he has a secret chicken recipe with eleven herbs and spices.
One of the lead actors of this film was once known as the youngest avangelous ( I know I missspelled it) and as an adult use a new show to expose the tent missionary scam before moving to acting
The Southern hillbilly bot’s (dubbed) voice is Hamilton Camp - singer & voice actor… to kids our age, best known as Gizmoduck from DuckTales & Darkwing Duck.
Stars do come in different colors, though not purple. Red, white, and yellow are what I am awake of.
IMO the only thing that could make that Death Star Hand any more awesome is if it had a giant laser cannon in its middle finger, destroying planets by flipping them off
Is the blonde guy supposed to be The Greatest Canadian Hero? Thanks for the hilarious diversion! My brain kept yelling, "This is what I live for!"
2:57 Yes the maniac, & Joey Gazzo from Rocky, 42nd Street Joe Spinell.
"what's going on here??"
"I have no fucking clue....."
This was the favorite movie of both the Bad Movie Podcast and the Greatest Movie Every Podcast.
Technically this is an Italian production, I am guessing Roger Corman helped distribute it in the US?
The bald guy had a whole career as a character actor usually as a tough guy. He was in the original Longest Yard, Hard Times, a bunch of others.
I like the laser fighting effects. All the smoke, sparks, and flashes. And the practical effect sparks coming off people when they get hit looks brutal.
I fear for the SBIG cast’s mental health if they watched Space Mutiny. They’d do nothing for the next month but recite lines from it and you know what those kind of people are like… AWESOME!!!
Star Wars, the Hoff, Roger Corman, oh this gonna be a good time today 😂😊
The Warrior Of Love (she's coming to get you...). Snapper Foster 2 from "The Young And The Restless" long before he became Michael Knight and Mitch Von Malibu. Marjoe, the former "Pentecostal boy wonder". Willi Cicci from "The Godfather", Tony Gazzo from "Rocky", and Frank Zito from "Maniac" as The Evil Guy (tm). And Robert Tessier, the bald bad guy in every movie and TV show from the '70s and '80s. All in one completely nonsensical Italian movie! Christopher Plummer was there too, to scam a paid vacation in Rome.
The behind-the-scenes stories about the production of this movie are so much more interesting than the resulting product itself. Everybody got food poisoning from the cheap catering, workers in the "Cinecittà" studios went on strike and eventually stole the reels with the finished master to extort the production company, etc.
Director Luigi Cozzi wanted to make a sequel to this movie, financed by Cannon Films with a three-times-higher budget, that would have starred... _Klaus Kinski,_ of all people. But that project was abandoned. People had to wait a couple of years more for creepy Space Pervert Kinski.
The bald guy fought Charles Bronson in Hard Times
I knew this day would finally come! The very best bad movie!
The space shots shake more than the Star Wars fanbase when Disney announces a new installment to the series.
Also, I gotta say it. Emperor Plummertine.