I've had an itch to re see this movie having seen it in the base theater when I was a kid. It was one of the early sci-fi movies that certainly inspired my love for Star Frontiers.<br /><br />I enjoyed rewatching it despite how dated the music is.<br /><br />Some fun facts they made it for 1 million dollars. and since building sets would have cost triple they got the Navy to let them use the aircraft carrier Valley Forge as a set allowing them to repaint and dress up as a space ship. Its very convincing. Some recent Sci Fi channel shows did much the same but you could tell they would filming on a Navy ship so you had to suspend disbelief.<br /><br />They ended up using compartments in the ship for offices, a class room, film editing etc. Bruce Dern is a runner and he marked a 1/4 mile track on the flight deck and ended up running 200 miles during the filming. <br /><br />Since the Valley Forge space freighter was 2000 feet long they built a 25 foot model.<br /><br />The robots were young human actors who were also double amputees who could walk on their hands. The goal with the robots was to have robots that were totally under human control and not trying to kill man kind.<br /><br />It was Bruce Dern's first chance to be the hero after being typed cast as a villian for years. <br /><br /><img src="/files/u4436/valleyforge.jpg" width="450" height="300" /><br /><br /><br /><br />
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