Friday 6 August 2021

AN 'EMPIRE' AT 40: "IT'S A TRAP!"


Luke literally runs into his captured friends in one of the Cloud City corridors and soon finds himself evading Stormtrooper blaster fire. As Leia desperately resists her captors and warns Luke of the approaching trap, he has no choice but to follow them into a darkened corridor whose shield door quickly clamps down, shutting him off from Artoo...

This scene has the special distinction of being one of the first clips released to international television stations in promoting the film during April 1980, and premiered for the first time on British shores during the conclusion to BBC 1's The Risk Business documentary series, the first of which explored the making of American films using British talent to their financial advantage, most notably for The Empire Strikes Back, of which the programme had special filming coverage the year before...



A shot from one of the release trailers for the film.




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