FanFare

MST Club presents... for the third time.... Since we've been through the entire show twice, and a good number of episodes a third time, I've not been posting them here when we do what we call "MST Throwback" episodes, favorite selections from the show to keep the MST in our name, and to break up the other riffing. Due to a coincidence, we're doing 401 SPACE TRAVELERS tonight, a remixed version of Marooned cut apart and stitched back up by the infamous Film Ventures International, starring the very recently departed Gene Hackman. I figured I'd make a Fanfare post about it in case people wanted to drop by.
posted by JHarris on Feb 27, 2025 - 3 comments

Rewatch! Some astronauts are in space and they're trying to get back to the ground, but there are problems. This is the 70s Gene Hackman sci-fi vehicle Marooned as re-edited by Film Ventures International. Previously
posted by JHarris on Aug 30, 2020 - 2 comments

AKA Marooned. American astronauts become stranded in space when their ship suffers a malfunction, and their wives on Earth are put through the dramatic wringer worrying about them. The surprise heroes turn out to be the Russians. Here it is: the first episode of Season Four, the only MST3K movie to have Gene Hackman, and -- yes! -- the only Oscar-winning movie covered by Mystery Science Theater 3000, although not in the form in which it won, and for Effects. This is another Film Ventures International production, a company that specialized in low-budget knockoffs of better-known films. FVI puttered along for a while, but when it failed in 1984 boss Edward Montoro disappeared with a million dollars of company money and his whereabouts remain unknown to this day. YouTube (1h34m) Premiered June 6, 1992. [more inside]
posted by JHarris on Oct 7, 2015 - 2 comments