“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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