Last week we brought you Akira Kurosawa’s THE HIDDEN FORTRESS, George Lucas’s narrative template for STAR WARS.

Now we bring you a third rung on that ladder: Roger Corman’s BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS, inspired in equal parts by SEVEN SAMURAI and Lucas’s 1977 space opera, with a healthy dose of Corman signature cheesecake on the side.

Featuring art direction by a young James Cameron and music by James Horner!

“There’s a degree of knowing wit in the dialogue that makes Battle Beyond the Stars a guilty pleasure.”
— filmauthority.com

 

TUE August 26th at 9:50 PM


WED August 27th at 9:50 PM


THU August 28th at 9:50 PM

With art direction by a young James Cameron, a score by future Cameron collaborator James Horner (ALIENS, TITANIC), a screenplay by John Sayles (LONE STAR) and co-directed by Roger Corman himself, BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS is a gem of the post-STAR WARS space boom in B-movie filmmaking.

Shad (Richard Thomas of “The Waltons” and SUMMER OF ’42) must scour the cosmos to recruit mercenaries from different planets and cultures to save his peaceful home planet from the evil Sador (John Saxon, BLOOD BEACH) Joining this magnificent band of marauders are the deadly Gelt (Robert Vaughn, SUPERMAN III), carefree Cowboy (George Peppard, “The A-Team”) and the Valkyrie Saint-Exmin (Sybil Danning, CHAINED HEAT.)