BURIED TREASURES: STAR CRASH (1978)
Probably the most fun I ever had watching a film was one afternoon with a bunch of friends, nearly 40 years ago, as we were laughing our guts out at the succession of inane dialogues, cheesy effects, overacting and absurd concepts that were leaping out from the TV, assailing our eyes and sanity with delirious abandon. The film was Luigi Cozzi's very own STAR WARS clone; STAR CRASH , aka THE ADVENTURES OF STELLA STAR. From the opening shot of a ship flying overhead, (looking very much like a model kit. Intricate, busy with details, but definitely toy-like), to the lacklustre climactic space battle around a powerful space station, with plenty of wise-cracking robots, cocky space pilots and light sabres to keep the kids happy, there is no denying the shared DNA with George Lucas' wildly successful adventure story. Luigi Cozzi proudly posing with his star Caroline Munro and his prop for the evil space station. ''Sure, if Star Wars wouldn'