Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983)

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(Foreign Titles)

Nomination Year: 2007

SYNOPSIS: This borders on too famous for the Smithees in that I vaguely remember it being in the theaters and it stars Molly Ringwald, Peter Strauss, and Michael Ironside. On the other hand, it was also released in 3-D, so how good could it really be? Answer: Not very. Peter Strauss is a down-on-his-luck space salvage operator who decides to try to rescue three survivors from a starliner which crashed on a plague-ravaged world. Along the way, he teams up with orphan waif Molly Ringwald and has various "adventures" en route to the rescue of the survivors, a "dramatic" confrontation with villain Overdog (Michael Ironside), and Molly having to survive the Death Maze (alas, she does).

Greg Pearson

Smithee Award Nominations

Best One-Liner
I'll Lay You Ten to One... Amazon #1: "Good breeding man." Amazon #2: "I bet breeding with us would kill him." Peter: "I'll take that bet."	Sorry, this clip has not yet been made available!

Worst Acting
Hrant Alianak as the Chief Henchman The character's name is "Chief Henchman," and he is the Chief Henchman. Here he is procuring shapely womanflesh for his boss Overdog, as well as throwing in his personal observations ("I hope zey don't have limbpss ... I hate girlss with limbpss").	Sorry, this clip has not yet been made available!

Directors

Director	Claim to Fame
Lamont Johnson	during the 1950s, he played "Tarzan" on the radio

Cast

Actor	Character	Claim to Fame
Peter Strauss	<Not Yet in Database>
Molly Ringwald	<Not Yet in Database>	well-known as a member of the mid-1980s group of actors called "The Brat Pack"
Ernie Hudson	<Not Yet in Database>	despite his long and impressive filmography, probably best known from his role as "Winston Zeddermore" in the Ghostbusters films
Michael Ironside	<Not Yet in Database>	At one time nearly interchangeable with John Saxon, Ironside has been in a WHOLE BUNCH of movies, good and Bad, usually playing shadowy/evil government/military types. Head-explodin' Darryl Revok in Scanners; "Jester" in Top Gun; Jean Rasczak in Starship Troopers; Richter in the original Total Recall. And many, many, many, many more!
Hrant Alianak	<Not Yet in Database>


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