Revenge of the Stolen Stars

Revenge of the Stolen Stars
Revenge of the Stolen Stars
	German DVD release cover
Directed by	Ulli Lommel
Written by	; Ulli Lommel
Produced by	Roger Deutsch; Kevin M. Kallberg; Ulli Lommel; Suzanna Love
Starring	Klaus Kinski; Suzanna Love; Ulli Lommel
Cinematography	David Sperling; Jürg V. Walther
Edited by	Warren G. Peters; Lynn M. Zook
Music by	Bob Thiele
Production; companies	A.M.A. Film; R. Deutsch Productions; Six Stars Production
Distributed by	DPI (France)
Release date	1985;
Running time	76 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Revenge of the Stolen Stars is a 1985 American comedy fantasy film directed by Ulli Lommel and starring Klaus Kinski, Suzanna Love, and Ulli Lommel.^[1]

Synopsis[]

A young man named Gene McBride inherits a large plantation and a mine of rubies on an island south of the China Sea. Gene moves there with his beloved Kelly to search the Six Stars, a famous collection of rubies. However, soon enough the couple find out that they will have to live with the ghost of Donald McBride, the original plantation owner and Gene's uncle, as well as confronting a curse.

Cast[]

as Gene McBride
Suzanna Love as Kelly
Klaus Kinski as Donald McBride
Ulli Lommel as Max Stern
as Lupe
Amable Aguiluz (as Tikoy Aguiluz)
as Shace Maron
as Malu
Sarah Golden
as Prince Kali (as Ho Sik Pak)
Thom Jones
Vincent Kramer
as Maid (as Joyce Lew)
as Alex
James Marshall as Consul
Eric Wong

Production[]

Director Ulli Lommel was unsure about casting Klaus Kinski, but he met him and Kinski was very nice, according to Lommel. But when the filming started, Kinski was very hard to work with. He complained about the lights and microphones, so eventually they had only few soft lights and very small microphones in the Kinski scenes, which is the reason why the sound quality changes much in different shots.^[2]

Kinski also didn't want to sit on a chair when camera crew was about to shoot from different angle, so continuity wasn't possible. Because of that Lommel decided to change Kinski's character to a ghost, which was a brilliant idea in Kinski's opinion.^[3]

Kinski drank heavily and at one point practically forced the entire crew to shoot almost thirty consecutive hours, so they could finally wrap Kinski's scenes and be done with his involvement. Kinski was so happy with the director that two days later he approached Lommel to show his appreciation, telling him that he had a great time while they worked together, and praising his directing style, to which Lommel politely thanked.^[2] Kinski also said that he wouldn't work in the future with anyone else than Lommel, but Lommel's half-soothing and half-ironical answer was "thank you Klaus, that's kind of you".^[2]

References[]

^ "New York Times: Revenge of the Stolen Stars". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. 2007. Archived from the original on November 18, 2007. Retrieved October 26, 2008.
^ ^a ^b ^c YouTube, Ulli Lommel on Kinski shooting "Revenge of stolen stars"
^ Revenge of the Stolen Stars Cinema Inspector

External links[]

Revenge of the Stolen Stars at IMDb

[NY_Times-1] "New York Times: Revenge of the Stolen Stars". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. 2007. Archived from the original on November 18, 2007. Retrieved October 26, 2008.

[You-2] YouTube, Ulli Lommel on Kinski shooting "Revenge of stolen stars"

[3] Revenge of the Stolen Stars Cinema Inspector

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