Starcrash

Starcrash follows two smugglers, Stella Star and Akton, who are caught by the authorities and sentenced to hard labour. When they recover the lone survivor of a secret expedition sent against the villainous Count Zartharn, the Emperor recruits them to finish that mission and to find his missing son, Simon. Zartharn commands a powerful weapon, and the pair, joined by a police robot named Elle, must reach his hidden base. The film is a space-fantasy adventure set among planets and starships.

Luigi Cozzi directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Nat Wachsberger; Patrick and Nat Wachsberger produced. It was Cozzi's second feature as director, following Godzilla in 1977 and preceding Contamination, Hercules and The Adventures of Hercules. Caroline Munro plays Stella Star and Marjoe Gortner plays Akton, with Christopher Plummer as the Emperor, David Hasselhoff as Simon, Robert Tessier as Thor and Joe Spinell as Count Zartharn.

Released in December 1978, Starcrash runs 92 minutes and was made as an Italian-American co-production. On IMDb it holds a rating of 4 out of 10 from around 8,800 votes, and on TMDB a rating of 4.2 out of 10 from roughly 218 votes, indicating limited audience approval across both.