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Cosmic Princess

Film Compilations: Film 4 (1982)

Compiled From The Metamorph Space Warp

91 minutes

Portugal Princesa Cósmica

Background

This movie and Journey Through The Black Sun were part of the Super Space Theatre package, edited on videotape in the USA. Picture quality is poor and the episodes are heavily cut. The poster tag line is "An Alien Beauty... Hiding A Beast Within!"

Music

The title "music" is Barry Gray incidental music from Year One.

Incidental music is supplemented (badly) by more Barry Gray incidental music.

Changes

• Title sequence uses footage of the breakaway from the titles of Year One and Year Two, and new computer animation of the moon in the space warp.
• Each episode is cut by at least 5 minutes. Early scenes of Maya are removed (she is first introduced as a lion before Koenig's prison). The epilogues of both episodes are cut. Helena's introduction to Space Warp is cut.
• The speech by Capt Duro (grasshopper) in Space Warp is replaced by new dialogue. The alien is now "Vader, commander of the Whills interplanetary star fleet", who warns about the nearby planet Psychon where his crew were captured by Mentor.

Observations

On January 22, 1989, Cosmic Princess was shown on the Minneapolis UHF station KTMA-TV, the tenth in a series called Mystery Science Theater 3000 (often known as MST3K). The series featured an astronaut and his robot sidekicks, who would give a running commentary throughout the movie, pointing out the flaws. It was the first of eleven series. Kenneth Morgan remembers one of the jokes: When Koenig is smashing up the Psyche computer, one of the hosts (I think it's Crow) asks, "What, there's no 'off' switch?"

Merchandise:

• UK Video: Precision (UK, 1982), Channel 5 (UK, 1987), Polygram (UK, 1992)
• Japan Video: Emotion (video and laserdisc)
• DVD: PVB Editions (France, 2003)
• DVD: Prisvideo Editions (Portugal, 2004)
• DVD: Passworld (Italy, 2006)
• DVD: Seven Sept (France, 2007)

Links

• Transcript Copyright Martin Willey
• Trailer
• Publicity images