Man does this movie suck! The Adventures of Taura: Star Slammer - The Escape also known as Prison Ship among other things attempts to be a deep space adventure. This nitwit movie is all about a dame named Tara who is of all things, a miner on a planet named Arous. But the powers that be want whatever it is they are mining there and send their bully boys to push the miners out. It takes very little time and before you know it our heroine in in custody in space. Once there, this becomes a sci-fi version of every women's prison movie you've ever seen, but with less nudity. (Our heroine takes her shirt off twice.) The women act like bitchy cheerleaders more than actual prisoners.
I might talk about who is in this one, but I've never heard of any of them. John Carradine makes one of the shortest cameos ever, appearing as a ghostly judge handing down the sentence. If he's on screen ten seconds, I'd be surprised. Aldo Ray is in it a wee bit longer, though he's nearly unrecognizable under extremely heavy make-up. Fred Olen Ray is the director, and this movie is rather typical for him, though usually the women in his movies have bigger boobs. (Am I obsessing about breasts in the post -- maybe.) Ray made the movie in only a few days at the ramshackle Roger Corman studio and Jack H. Harris fronted him some cash to finish the movie. The movie is mostly just a bunch of cliches from prison movies.
This is not a movie you should waste your time on, unless like me you are craven little snit who has to see every appearance or film by a given actor or director or in this case producer. Be better. Do something with your life before it's too late.
Believe it or not, next it's The Blob yet again!
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