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Released
1986 · FILM

Battle for the Lost Planet

They came to Earth to breed. It may be the end of mankind.

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Runtime
100 min
ActionAdventureScience Fiction

Synopsis

An industrial spy, captured and forced into space, hijacks a space shuttle in a bid to escape his captors, only to find the controls malfunctioning. As he hurtles uncontrollably through outer space, he witnesses alien battleships heading toward Earth. Many years later, when the trajectory of his flight brings him back to the planet, he finds Earth completely under alien control, devastated by thermo-nuclear warfare. Desperate and alone, he searches for any remaining humans. When he locates a group of survivors, they join forces to fight the aliens and save what remains of mankind.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 13

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Shot by Ron WymanScored by Zon Vern Pyles

Also known as

  • Galaxy Destroyerde
  • Kampf um den verlorenen Planetende

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