Mis­sion Star­dust (re­leased in Italy as ...4...3...2...1...Morte) is a 1967 movie, re­leased in Jan­uary 1968.[1] It was based on the Per­ry Rho­dan uni­verse, which is con­sid­ered so ap­palling­ly bad that fans of the se­ries play­ful­ly de­ny its very ex­is­tence.
The film starts with col­or­ful 1960s mu­sic by com­pos­er An­ton Abril, ac­com­pa­nied by Mar­cel­lo Giom­bi­ni’s word­less song Seli and some psychedel­ic open­ing cred­its. The open­ing scene is some poor­ly du­pli­cat­ed stock footage of rock­ets blast­ing off and low bud­get spe­cial ef­fects.
In the movie, Tho­ra, the Arkonide ex­pe­di­tion’s com­man­der is a plat­inum blonde with a wardrobe of skintight space­suits. The film adds an in­trigu­ing sub­plot about a su­per crim­i­nal that doesn’t ap­pear in the nov­el. The evil ‘Homer Larkin’ plots to get the Moon's wealth be­fore Ter­ra’s gov­ern­ments take it all for them­selves. Mr. Larkin has a pet sim­i­lar to the run­ning gag in James Bond movies.