Product Details

• Actors: Leonora Ruffo, Mario Novelli, Roland Lesaffre, Kirk Morris, Alfio Caltabiano
• Directors: Aleksandr Kozyr, Francis Ford Coppola, Mikhail Karzhukov, Pietro Francisci
• Writers: Mikhail Karzhukov, Aleksei Sazanov, Fernando Paolo Girolami, Ian Danby
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: November 16, 2004
• Run Time: 77 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00063MC8E
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #62,921 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Battle Beyond the Sun/Star Pilot" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

In this visually spectacular outer space adventure, two post-nuke nations race against the clock to reach the planet Mars and claim dominance over a world beyond imagination. Commissioned by drive-in legend Roger Corman and crafted by Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather) from the Russian sci-fi classic Niebo Zowiet, this drive-in favorite finally hits DVD with a bang!

Customer Reviews

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "Nebo Zoyvot/The Heavens Call" Cormanized, November 30, 2004

By	John Dziadecki (Louisville, CO USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Mikhail Karzhukov's 1960 "Nebo Zoyvot" or "The Heavens Call" was Cormanized in 1962. The original is an artifact of the "Cold War" and needs to be restored to its original format to be fully appreciated. The original story line -- Russians helping Americans in space -- was later used to good effect in "2010". I give the original film five stars.

Corman bought the film cheap while in Europe. Coppolla reworked the Russian script into something supposedly pallatable to the American audience, added some garish monster so they could put it on the poster, reused footage to give it more length and recieved his first screen credit. Heaven forbid someone should do that to his film! But this sort of hacking was not unusual at the time as Corman (and Mystery Science Theater) fans know. Still, this DVD does have a decent transfer of the Corman version.

The second half of this double feature is an Italian sci-fi gone wrong. A generous star or so for that one.

Again, where's the original Russian film?

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Francis Ford Copa-ur kidding, March 22, 2008

By	Airthief "OhDopeyMe" (Reston, Va United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Battle Beyond The Sun (Video On Demand)

I was thinking I would watch the movie to kill some time, then my hopes were perked to actually expecting something. Frack me running! One of the worst please god tell me there is not a cult following to this flick, because the only ho joke scene was the part about the electric vaginia fighting the electric ovary? Or Fertile Egg?? Other then that, vaguely vieled social message and super cheap special effects. FFC ought to go hide his head in shame for this one.

15 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars 1960 you bastards, October 14, 2004

By	doppelganger "dvd-archive" (Chicago) - See all my reviews

Incase you were wondering, again. That's when this movie was made. AMAZON DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW THE YEAR OF PRODUCTION ANYMORE -OR THEY ARE TOO friggin LAZY.

I guess our money's just not goodnuff.