Frolicking in berlin and outer space
From tin foil and milk crates to the end of an era in pre-war Germany
- Published: 17/07/2011 at 03:51 AM
- Newspaper section: Brunch
With credits almost as full of future promise as People on Sunday, the 1980 film Battle Beyond the Stars - John Sayles (screenwriter), James Cameron (art director), Gale Anne Hurd (production manager), James Horner (composer) _ was producer Roger Corman's attempt to produce a Star Wars spectacle on an indie budget. Rereleased in a solid Blu-ray transfer 30 years later, it's still a scrappy, entertaining picture, with a plotline from The Seven Samurai, a cast of rising (Richard Thomas, Sybil Danning) and veteran (John Saxon, Robert Vaughn, George Peppard) stars, and planets spun out of tinfoil, plywood and milk crates.
SPACE COWGIRL: Sybil Danning in ‘Battle Beyond the Stars’, which also has James Cameron and John Sayles in its credits.
BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS
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- Writer: Dave Kehr
- Position: Writer
