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company: New World Pictures
year: 1979
runtime: 92′
director: Luigi Cozzi
cast: Caroline Munro, Marjoe Gortner,
Judd Hamilton, Joe Spinell,
David Hasselhoff, Christopher Plummer,
Nadia Cassini, Robert Tessier
writer: Luigi Cozzi
and Nat Wachsberger
cinematography: Paul Beeson
and Roberto D’Ettorre Piazzoli
music: John Barry
Reviewed from a screener provided
by Shout! Factory, LLC.
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Plot: The best spaceship pilot in the galaxy, sultry Stella Star (Caroline Munro), blasts into the haunted stars with faithful companions Akton (Marjoe Gortner) and robot Elle (Judd Hamilton) to find the lost son of the kindly Galactic Emperor (Christopher Plummer) and put an end to the scheming of evil Count Zarth Arn (Joe Spinell).
Absurd, incongruous and hilarious in more or less equal measure, Luigi Cozzi’s Starcrash is a monumental exercise in high camp produced with infectious enthusiasm and possessed of an unflinching adoration for old-school genre sensibilities. Though pushed into production by the success of the box office juggernaut Star Wars (the title, credited to producer Nat Wachsberger, is one of its more obvious allusions to the Lucas film), Star Crash owes itself to a far older science fiction and fantasy tradition – something writer and director Cozzi makes absolutely no bones about.
