“Battle Beyond the Stars” is a Sci-Fi Action Adventure, Screenplay Written by John Sayles from a story by John Sayles and Anne Dyer, Directed by Jimmy T. Murakami and Roger Corman.
In a “Magnificent Seven” style outer space tale, a
young farmer called Shad (Richard Thomas) sets off to recruit mercenaries to
defend his peaceful farming world, Akir, which is under threat of invasion by
the evil tyrant Sador (John Saxon) ruler of the sinister Malmori Empire and his
armada of aggressors.
Against the odds Shad assembles a diverse band of unlikely
heroes, a spacegoing truck driver from Earth called Cowboy (George Peppard),
Gelt (Robert Vaughn) a wealthy assassin looking for a place to hide, St. Exmin
(Sybil Danning) a Valkyrie warrior looking to prove herself in battle, Cayman
of the Lambda Zone (Morgan Woodward),
the Nestors (Earl Boen and John Gowans) the
Kelvin (Lawrence Steven Meyers and Lara Cody) and Nanelia (Darlanne Fluegel).
Also featuring in this likeable Sci-Fi tale are
veteran Sam Jaffe as Dr. Hephaestus, Marta Kristen as Lux and Lynn
Carlin as the voice of Nell.
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