# Mission Stardust
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| director = [Primo Zeglio](/source/Primo_Zeglio)
| producer = {{ill|Ernst R. von Theumer|de|Ernst von Theumer senior}}[{{cite web|url=http://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/perry-rhodan-sos-aus-dem-weltall_ea43d4a6b8b35006e03053d50b37753d|publisher=[Filmportal.de](/source/Filmportal.de)|title=Perry Rhodan - SOS aus dem Weltall|access-date=18 November 2016}}]}}
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'''''Mission Stardust''''' ({{langx|de|'''Perry Rhodan - SOS aus dem Weltall'''}}, {{langx|it|'''...4...3...2...1...Morte'''}}) is a 1967 [science fiction film](/source/science_fiction_film) based on the early novels of the popular German ''[Perry Rhodan](/source/Perry_Rhodan)'' series by [K.H. Scheer](/source/K.H._Scheer) and [Walter Ernsting](/source/Walter_Ernsting).{{sfn|Westfahl|2012|p=258}}
==Plot==
In a quest to find a source of radioactive material more powerful than [uranium](/source/uranium), Major Perry Rhodan leads a four-man mission to [the Moon](/source/Moon) on the rocketship ''Stardust''.
On the Moon, they find a stranded Arkonide spaceship, where Commander Thora is trying to save a scientist named Crest, along with a crew of robots. The earthmen find that Crest is suffering from [leukemia](/source/leukemia), for which there is a cure available on Earth. Perry and others take an Arkonide shuttlecraft to Earth to bring back a doctor with the cure.
One of the Earth crewmen is a traitor, however, supplying information to a crime lord who is after the radioactive material, but who sees the encounter with the Arkonides as providing an opportunity for an even greater prize. The crime lord arranges to replace the doctor and nurses with his own people, and upon arriving at the Arkonide ship they kidnap Thora in a bid to gain Arkonide technology.
However, Crest provides Rhodan and Bull with Arkonide technology, which helps them rescue Thora as well as the real doctor, who is able to cure Crest. They soon leave the Moon in the ''Stardust'', promising to return with materials the Arkonides need to repair their spaceship.
==Cast==
*[Lang Jeffries](/source/Lang_Jeffries) as Perry Rhodan
*[Essy Persson](/source/Essy_Persson) as Thora
*[John Karlsen](/source/John_Karlsen) as Crest
*[Pinkas Braun](/source/Pinkas_Braun) as Larkin
*[Gianni Rizzo](/source/Gianni_Rizzo) as Criminal Leader
*[Ann Smyrner](/source/Ann_Smyrner) as Dr. Sheridan
*[Joachim Hansen](/source/Joachim_Hansen_(actor)) as Dr. Manoli
*[Luis Dávila](/source/Luis_D%C3%A1vila_(actor)) as Mike Bull
*[John Bartha](/source/John_Bartha) as General Roon[{{cite book |last=Elley |first=Derek |author-link=Derek Elley |title=World Filmography: 1967 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jp7ayTLX1D8C&pg=PA322 |editor-last=Cowie |editor-first=Peter |editor-link=Peter Cowie |publisher=[Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press](/source/Fairleigh_Dickinson_Univ_Press) |year=1977 |page=322 |isbn=9780498015656}}]
*[Tom Felleghy](/source/Tom_Felleghy) as Moreland
*[Daniel Martín](/source/Daniel_Mart%C3%ADn_(actor)) as Captain Flipper
==Release==
''Mission Stardust'' opened in Rome in August 1967 under the title ''4... 3... 2... 1... morte'' with a running time of 95 minutes.
[{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=22400|publisher=[American Film Institute](/source/American_Film_Institute)|title=Mission Stardust|access-date=18 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140402232046/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=22400|archive-date=2 April 2014}}] It was later released in West Germany in October 1967 under the title ''Perry Rhodan--SOS aus dem Weltall'' with a 79-minute running time.