Star Wars (1978)
Note: this print runs 100 minutes against a recorded 121 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Harrison Ford, Alec Guinness, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Peter Cushing, Peter Mayhew, David Prowse, Anthony Daniels
Directed by George Lucas
Star Wars (later retitled as Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. Produced by Lucasfilm Ltd. and distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox, it is the first film in the Star Wars franchise and the fourth chronological chapter of the "Skywalker Saga". Set in a fictional galaxy under the rule of the tyrannical Galactic Empire, the film follows a resistance movement, called the Rebel Alliance, that aims to destroy the Empire's ultimate weapon, the Death Star. When the rebel leader Princess Leia is captured by the Galactic Empire, Luke Skywalker acquires stolen architectural plans for the Death Star and sets out to rescue he
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