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Release Date: 1980

Cast: John Saxon, Morgan Woodward, Sam Jaffe, Darlanne Fluegel, Jeff Corey, George Peppard, Richard Thomas, Robert Vaughn, Sybil Danning, Kathy Griffin

Categories: Movies, Science Fiction, Space Western, Parody, Adventure, Indie

Battle Beyond the Stars is a Roger Corman-produced science fiction film, directed by Jimmy T. Murakami and released in 1980. The film, intended as a "Magnificent Seven in outer space," is a pastiche of The Magnificent Seven, the Western remake of Akira Kurosawa's film Seven Samurai. The screenplay was written by John Sayles, the score was composed by James Horner, and the special effects were directed by James Cameron. Several of the effects shots and clips were re-used for other films throughout the 1980s, including Bachelor Party, while the spaceship model was re-used in the film Space... MORE

Battle Beyond the Stars is a Roger Corman-produced science fiction film, directed by Jimmy T. Murakami and released in 1980. The film, intended as a "Magnificent Seven in outer space," is a pastiche of The Magnificent Seven, the Western remake of Akira Kurosawa's film Seven Samurai. The screenplay was written by John Sayles, the score was composed by James Horner, and the special effects were directed by James Cameron. Several of the effects shots and clips were re-used for other films throughout the 1980s, including Bachelor Party, while the spaceship model was re-used in the film Space Raiders. The farmers of the peaceful planet Akir (named in honor of Seven Samurai director Akira Kurosawa) are threatened by the space tyrant Sador and his army of mutants, the Malmori. Sador's huge ship carries a weapon called a "Stellar Converter", which literally turns planets into small suns, destroying all life on their surface. He threatens to use the Converter on the planet unless the people of Akir submit to him when he returns to Akir in several days. Zed, the last Akira warrior, now old and blind, suggests they hire mercenaries to protect the planet. Lacking any valuable resources, the LESS