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As far as these pitiful attempts to find the world's worst SF movie of all
time, one movie has been over looked.  I am not quite sure of the title,
but here is a brief description.

I saw it several years ago on Cable TV, it never even got to the theaters
it was so bad.  It was on the tail wind of Star Wars and an obvious attempt
to cash in on its selling potential.  It was about a young  hero, who
had a link in with some Force-like magic who went around whining.  The
hero was played by Marjoe Gortner, who many may not remember as a child
evangalist.  Christopher Plummer had a bit part as the Emperor (I don't
know if he was evil or not) and seemed accutely embarrased throughout
the thirty or forty seconds that he appeared on screen. (He got top billing,
if I remember correctly).

What really stands out in my mind were the giant amazon robots, which tried
to be physically as true to women as possible.  i.e. get the idea -- especially
around the front upper torso region?

The greatest reason to assume that this may (or may not be) one of the
all time worst movies is that it wasn't meant to be bad.  This is pretty
obvious.  Pathetically so.


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 >As far as these pitiful attempts to find the world's worst
 >SF movie of all time, one movie has been over looked.  I am
 >not quite sure of the title, but here is a brief description.
 >
 >I saw it several years ago on Cable TV, it never even got to
 >the theaters it was so bad.  It was on the tail wind of Star
 >Wars and an obvious attempt to cash in on its selling
 >potential.  It was about a young  hero, who had a link
 >in with some Force-like magic who went around whining.  The
 >hero was played by Marjoe Gortner, who many may not remember
 >as a child evangalist.  Christopher Plummer had a bit part
 >as the Emperor (I don't know if he was evil or not) and
 >seemed accutely embarrased throughout the thirty or forty
 >seconds that he appeared on screen.  (He got top billing, if
 >I remember correctly).
 >

I'm pretty sure someone mentioned it, perhaps in net.movies.  You are
describing STARCRASH which starred Caroline Munro (as Stella Star)
along with Gortner and Plummer.  It was directed by Louis Coates
(Italian science fiction-fan Luigi Cozzi).  It won't win any prizes,
but it was well paced and better than literally hundreds of science
fiction films.
				Mark Leeper
				...ihnp4!ahuta!leeper
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