Main Cast: Michael Paré, Malcolm McDowell, Lisa Eichhorn, Brian Thompson, Dean Devlin
Release Year: 1990
Country: WG/US/DE
Run Time: 102 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
In the year 2038, multicosmic corporations are dominating the universe, subsuming planet after planet in search of valuable natural resources. An agent (Michael Pare) of the Galactic Mining Corporation is sent to a remote outpost as a safeguard against the ruthless attempts of the Pyrite company to take over the base. Moon 44 was shot in Germany and released directly to video, despite its rather high cost of $15 million. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide
Branko Alagic - Navigator; Michael Antoniou - Pilot Taxi-Crane; Memis Batmaz - Navigator; William Begatte - Pilot Taxi-Crane; Bernhard Bolden - Pilot Taxi-Crane; Roscoe Lee Browne - Chairman; Alexander Brummel - Navigator; Marco Brunsch - Technician; Paul Buksbau - Pilot; Calvin Burke - Captain Stojanowic; Caban Chastas - Navigator; Andreas Cordes - Navigator; Ingo Eberle - Security Guard; Patrick Engel - Navigator; Ramon Estevez; Mark Feindt - Navigator; Lloyd Fields - Lloyd; Rainer Fingerle - Navigator; Andreas Gabriel - Navigator; Stephen Geoffreys - Cookie; Friedrich Grub - Navigator; Lars Halberg - Pilot; Anthony Helfer - Pilot; James Herdig - Cook; Martin Hering - Pilot; Andrew Howarth - Guard Checkpoint; Milton Jones - Technician; Gustav Joo - Technician; Valentin Kirsch - Navigator; Christian Krumm - Navigator; Hiram Krumm - Technician; Patrick Leader - Pilot; Drew Lucas - Riffle; John March - Moose Haggerty; Frederic Mills - Fritz; Bernhard Nickel - 1st Sergeant; Jochen Nickel - Scotter Bailey; Bobby Patol - Pilot; Leon Rippy - Sergeant Sykes; Jens Scherer - Navigator; Marcus Schmid - Navigator; David Schwab - Technician; Jason Seizer - Navigator; Axel Spahr - Pilot; Richard Strunz - Pilot; Mechmed Yilmaz - Marc; David Williamson - Gallagher; Uli Moller
Credit
Ute Emmerich - Associate Producer, Ha Nguyen - Costume Designer, Robin Schannewitzky - Costume Designer, Roland Emmerich - Director, Tony Wigand - Editor, Joel Goldsmith - Composer (Music Score), Oliver Scholl - Production Designer, Karl Walter Lindenlaub - Cinematographer, Roland Emmerich - Producer, Dean Heyde - Producer, Michael A.P. Scording - Producer, Oliver Eberle - Screenwriter, Roland Emmerich - Screenwriter, Dean Heyde - Screenwriter, P.J. Mitchell - Short Story Author
In the year 2038, prisoners are sent as a last resort to defend a corporation’s last mining colony from attacks by another corporation’s robots.
Video box description
"Robots mining priceless chemicals are being hijacked from Moon 44. The Galactic Mining Corporation send their Internal Affairs Investigator, Felix Stone (Michael Pare) to track down the hijacker. Stone goes undercover as one of a group of Company prisoners being sent to Moon 44 to pilot the special helicopters, unaware as are the other prisoners that most pilots who trained before them crashed and died...and that if Moon 44 is attacked, the men will be sacrificed and the robots saved!"
Production details
This movie was shot by cinematographer Karl Walter Lindenlaub and scored by composer Joel Goldsmith. It was filmed in color with Dolby Stereo sound. Production design and visual effects bear signs of significant inspiration by aesthetics of notable 1980s science fiction films like Alien, Aliens, Blade Runner or The Terminator.
