Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
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| Directed by | Lamont Johnson |
| Produced by | Don Carmody |
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| Music by | Elmer Bernstein |
| Cinematography | Frank Tidy |
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| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $14.4 million |
| Box office | $16.5 million (US) |
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone is a 1983 American science fiction-adventure film. The film stars Peter Strauss, Molly Ringwald, Ernie Hudson, Andrea Marcovicci and Michael Ironside. The film's executive producer was Ivan Reitman, and it was directed by Lamont Johnson. The film had an adventurous music score composed by Elmer Bernstein. When the film came out in theaters, parts of it were shown in 3-D and the film became part of the 3-D film revival craze of the early 1980s. The film is about a bounty hunter who goes on a mission to rescue three women stranded on a brutal planet and meets a vagrant teenage girl along the way.
Set in the early 22nd century, the film opens with the destruction of a space cruise liner that becomes irreparably damaged and destroyed by a bolt of nebular lightning. The only apparent survivors are three beautiful women – Nova (Cali Timmins), Reena (Aleisa Shirley), and Meagan (Deborah Pratt) – who get away in an escape pod and land on the nearest habitable planet. There, they are quickly accosted by the hostile natives and taken aboard a sail-driven vehicle resembling a pirate ship on rails.
In space, an alert goes out for the safe return of the women with a reward of 3,000 "mega-credits". A small-time salvage operator named Wolff (Peter Strauss) intercepts the message and heads to the planet. Joining him is his female engineer Chalmers (Andrea Marcovicci), who learns the planet – called Terra XI – is a failed colony that fell victim to a deadly plague and civil warfare. Wolff risks the dangers believing the reward will solve his debt problems.
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