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    Deathsport (1978)

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    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

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