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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

PG | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle-station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the evil Darth Vader.

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Mark Hamill

Luke Skywalker
Harrison Ford

Han Solo
Carrie Fisher

Princess Leia Organa
Peter Cushing

Grand Moff Tarkin
Alec Guinness

Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi
Anthony Daniels

C-3PO
Kenny Baker

R2-D2
Peter Mayhew

Chewbacca
David Prowse

Darth Vader
Phil Brown

Uncle Owen
Shelagh Fraser

Aunt Beru
Jack Purvis

Chief Jawa
Alex McCrindle

General Dodonna
Eddie Byrne

General Willard
Drewe Henley

Red Leader

(as Drewe Hemley)

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Director:

George Lucas

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George Lucas

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Awards

Won 6 Oscars.

Another 50 wins & 28 nominations.

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Robert Englund auditioned for the role of Luke Skywalker but was turned down. He then suggested to his roommate Mark Hamill that he should try for the part.

Quotes

C-3PO: Did you hear that? They shut down the main reactor. We'll be destroyed for sure. This is madness.

Goofs

After their escape from the trash compactor, Han and Luke exchange their belts for stormtrooper belts and blasters. As they escape from the Death Star, Han sits in the pilot's chair wearing the stormtrooper belt, but when he gets up to go to the gunnery chair he's wearing his original gun belt and blaster.

Crazy Credits

The film's opening prologue: It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire. During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Emperor's ultimate weapon, the DEATH STAR, an armored space station with enough power to destroy an entire planet. Pursued by the Emperor's sinister agents, Princess Leia races home aboard her starship, custodian of the stolen plans that can save her people and restore freedom to the galaxy ....