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Perry Rhodan - SOS aus dem Weltall
Mission Stardust
...4 ...3 ...2 ...1 ...Morte / 4, 3, 2, 1, Objectif Lune / 4.3.2.1. Opération Lune / Órbita Mortal / Operation Stardust / You Only Live Once / Mortal Orbit
West Germany/Italy/France 1967
produced by
Ernst R. von Theumer for Tefi Filmproduktion, Produzioni Europee Associati (PEA), Aitor Films
directed by Primo Zeglio
starring Lang Jeffries, Essy Persson, Luis Dávila, Pinkas Braun, Stefano Sibaldi, Daniel Martín, Joachim Hansen, John Bartha, John Karlsen, Ann Smyrner, Lisa Halvorsen, Tom Felleghy, Gino Marturano, Mirella Pamphili, Aleyandro Barrera (= Dakar), Gianni Rizzo
screenplay by Karl-Herbert Scheer, Kurt Vogelman, based on the Perry Rhodan-series of novels created by Karl-Herbert Scheer, Clark Dalton, published by Moewig, music by Erwin Halletz, Antón García Abril
Perry Rhodan
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Ace astronaut Perry Rhodan (Lang Jeffries) and crew fly to the moon to
retrieve a certain metal in a top secret mission. Somehow, they lose
contact with earth, but instead stumble upon an alien spaceship
commandeered by pretty but pretty bitchy blonde Thora (Essy Persson),
which is also carrying the leader of Thora's planet, Crest (John Karlsen),
who is suffering from leukemia, something the aliens have no cure for. As
it happens, Perry's ship doctor Manoli (Joachim Hansen) knows about a
leukemia specialist residing in Africa, so off they all fly in the alien
spaceship on an even topper secret mission to fetch the earth doctor,
Haggard (Stefano Sibaldi) - and that's where the problems begin. You see,
there is a gangster called Arkin (Pinkas Braun), who wanted the metal
Perry was supposed to fetch for world domination. Now though that Perry
has returned to earth in this highly advanced and highly armed alien
spaceship, he wants that instead. And somehow, his men have traced Perry's
return while space control obviously hasn't. Ok, so Perry and his
sidekick Bull (Luis Dávila) go to town to fetch doc Haggard, but they
seem to run into trouble every step along the way, not only caused by
Arkin's men but also by local security forces and the like. But they
manage to get their hands on the doctor and his sexy assistants (Ann
Smyrner, Lisa Halversen) and bring them back to the alien spaceship, even
if Perry is eventually taken captive by Arkin's men (he manages to escape
though). Now it turns out that the doctor and his assistants are not the
real deal but in Arkin's employ, and they try to take over the alien
spaceship ... but there are robots on board who annihilate them. However,
somehow Arkin has managed to take Thora hostage, so Perry and friends have
to free her from Arkin's private island, then they shatter the island to
smithereens. But Arkin has managed to climb aboard the spaceship, and he
tries to turn things around in his favour once more ... but is sucked into
outer space through an airlock. And what about Crest, you might ask.
Well, Perry and company have somehow managed to get their hands on the
real doctor Haggard, and he cures Crest in no time. And to nobody's real
surprise, Perry gets the girl, Thora, in the end. Perry
Rhodan is a German series of (weekly) science fiction novels of
the space opera variety created in 1961 that has grown immensely popular
in its native Germany over the years, so it was only a question of time
until it made its jump to the big screen. For the big screen version
however, several of the fancier (and more expensive) elements of the
novels were toned down and instead of an actual space opera we are
presented with more of a James
Bond-like adventure ... with a handful of very humanoid aliens
and funny looking robots. Somehow this didn't sit too well with fans of
the series, which was probably why the film never found a sequel. But
that says little about the actual film at hand, does it? Fact is, Mission
Sardust is good fun in a Eurotrashy 1960's sort of way: Everything
here is too cheap for its own good, some of the futuristic sets, props and
costumes have some campy greatness to them, the actors are mostly wooden
and the humour is of a simplistic nature and badly executed. Furthermore,
the script is riddled with plotholes, and instead of original ideas we are
presented with genre mainstays and a few too many nods to the James
Bond-series ... and all of this is exactly what makes Mission
Stardust fun. Not a good movie, not by a longshot, but amusing in a
nostalgic sort of way.
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