Space Mutiny

Space Mutiny also known as Mutiny in Space is a 1988 South African sciencefiction action film about a mutiny aboard the spaceship known as the Southern Sun.

Kalgan sabotages a key part of the ship just as an important professors shuttle is on a landing trajectory. The loss of guidance control causes the ship to explode. The shuttles pilot, Dave Ryder, is able to escape, but the professor dies in the explosion. This sabotage seals off the flight deck for a number of weeks, which gives Kalgan the opportunity to attempt to wrest control. With the Enforcers in his hand, and with the flight deck out of commission, he holds the entire population of the Southern Sun hostage. Commander Jansen and Captain Devers enlist Ryders assistance, aided begrudgingly by Jansens daughter Dr. Lea Jansen, to regain control of the ship.Space Mutiny stars Reb Brown, Cisse Cameron, Cameron Mitchell and John Phillip Law. The spaceship effects were lifted wholly from the original Battlestar Galactica TV series. ........

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