Deathsport

New World. Director Henry Suso, Allan Arkush; Producer Roger Corman; Screenplay Henry Suso, Donald Stewart; Camera Gary Graver; Editor Larry Bock; Music Andrew Stein; Art Director Sharon Compton

David Carradine
Claudia Jennings
Richard Lynch
William Smithers
Will Walker
David McLean

Deathsport is Roger Corman's futuristic science fiction gladiator picture. And what is a futuristic science fiction gladiator picture? It's a film set 1,000 years into the future, post neutron wars, where the good warriors ride horses and wield see-through sabres fighting bad guys known as Statesmen who drive lethal motorcycles known as 'Death Machines'.

The good guys, Ranger Guides, are quiet, live by a code, make temporary unions and roam desert wastelands trying to avoid the cannibal mutants and those motorcycles, which are very noisy.

Statesmen have other plans. They have two ways of amusing themselves: beating up Ranger Guides - no easy task since Ranger Guides are superior warriors - and capturing female rangers, who they strip, lock up in dark room with metal chandeliers and then apply electricity and special effects. Nice guys.

David Carradine is the quiet good guy and the best thing that can be said about his acting and his part is that he doesn't say much. Claudia Jennings is his partner good guy, the one who gets to amuse the bad guy in the dark room. The best thing that can be said about her performance is that she gets to take off her clothes, twice.

(Color) Available on VHS. Extract of a review from 1978. Running time: 83 MIN.

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