In the year 3000, a thousand years after the Great Neutron Wars have decimated the planet, Lord Zirpola (David McLean), the dictator of Helix City, captures Kaz Oshay (David Carradine) and Deneer (Claudia Jennings), two ‘Range Guides’ – nomads with mystical powers who fight for good in the desert wastelands against cave-dwelling cannibal mutants.
Zirpola forces them to be combatants in his Deathsport – a gladiatorial arena where people fight to the death on motorcycles.
Kaz, Deneer and several others make an escape on the motorcycles and Zirpola’s right-hand man, Ankar Moor (Richard Lynch) – a former Range Guide himself – who pursues them as they try to make their way across the desert to freedom.
It’s a very cheap production with the same motorbike stunts and explosions repeated several times over and a single (obvious) matte painting of a futuristic city background used repeatedly.
Kaz Oshay
David Carradine Deneer
Claudia Jennings Ankar Moor
Richard Lynch Dr Karl
William Smithers Marcus Karl
Will Walker Lord Zirpola
David McLean Polna
Jesse Vint Jailer
H.B. Haggerty Tritan President
John Himes Mr Bakkar
Peter Hooper Adriann
Brenda Venus
Director
Allan Arkush
Nicholas Niciphor
Video
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Zirpola forces them to be combatants in his Deathsport – a gladiatorial arena where people fight to the death on motorcycles.
Marcus Karl
