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Dark Star
Bombed Out in Space with a Spaced Out Bomb!
( Comedy / Sci-Fi )


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MPAA Rating:
G

US Runtime: 83 min

Country of Origin: United States of America

Premiere Date:
Mar 30, 1974   [USA]
 
Director: John Carpenter   [Director]
 
Writers: John Carpenter   [Screenplay]
Dan O'Bannon   [Screenplay]
 
Producers: John Carpenter   [Producer]
Jack H. Harris   [Executive Producer]
J. Stein Kaplan   [Associate Producer]
 
Cinematography: Douglas Knapp   [Director of Photography]
 
Edited by: Dan O'Bannon   [Editor]
 
Music Composed by John Carpenter   [Original Music Composer]
 
Production Design: Dan O'Bannon   [Production Design]
 
Production Companys: Jack H. Harris Enterprises
University of Southern California   (US)
 


Plot Summary:

    In the far reaches of space, a small crew, 20 years into their solitary mission, find things beginning to go hilariously wrong.

Cast: (First 20, for the rest click 'Show All Cast & Crew' below.)

Brian Narelle
Lt. Doolittle
Cal Kuniholm
Boiler
Dan O'Bannon
Sgt. Pinback alias Bill Fruge
Dre Pahich
Talby
Adam Beckenbaugh
Bomb #20 (voice)
Nick Castle
Ailien
 
Joe Saunders
Commander Powell (voice)
Cookie Knapp
Muttercomputer (voice)
Alan Sheretz
Bomb #19 (voice)
John Carpenter
Talby Voice
Miles Watkins
Watkins - Mission Control
 

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Tech Info:

Budget:
$60,000
Revenue:
$0
Color Info:
Color (Metrocolor)
Sound Mix:
Mono
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
Cinematographic Process:
Spherical
Film Negative Format:
16 mm
Printed Film Format:
35 mm

Quotes:

  • [Pinback wants the bomb to disarm.]
    Pinback: All right, bomb. Prepare to receive new orders.
    Bomb Twenty: You are false data.
    Pinback: Hmmm?
    Bomb Twenty: Therefore I shall ignore you.
    Pinback: Hello...bomb?
    Bomb Twenty: False data can act only as a distraction. Therefore, I shall refuse to perceive.
    Pinback: Hey, bomb?!
    Bomb Twenty: The only thing that exists is myself.
    Pinback: Snap out of it, bomb.
     
  • [Doolittle convinces the bomb not to explode.]
    Doolittle: Hello, Bomb? Are you with me?
    Bomb Twenty: Of course.
    Doolittle: Are you willing to entertain a few concepts?
    Bomb Twenty: I am always receptive to suggestions.
    Doolittle: Fine. Think about this then. How do you know you exist?
    Bomb Twenty: Well, of course I exist.
    Doolittle: But how do you know you exist?
    Bomb Twenty: It is intuitively obvious.
    Doolittle: Intuition is no proof. What concrete evidence do you have that you exist?
    Bomb Twenty: Hmmmm.....well.....I think, therefore I am.
    Doolittle: That's good. That's very good. But how do you know
    Bomb Twenty: My sensory apparatus reveals it to me. This is fun!
     

Trivia:

  • The character Bill Frugge was named after John Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon's film professor William Froug, while they were making Dark Star.
     
  • When bomb number 20 emerges from the bomb bay during the asteroid storm, you can see a guy sticking his tongue out on the computer screen.
     
  • The Playboy posters are blurred in the bedroom scene, although the bedroom scene is not in all versions of the movie.
     
  • One of the pieces of debris after the ship blows up says "THX 1138 Toilet Tank", a reference to THX 1138.
     
  • Co-written by Dan O'Bannon, who later reused the "alien mascot" section of the film as the basis of his script for Alien.
     

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