The Last Starfighter

The Last Starfighter is a 1984 science fiction movie or its subsequent novelization that year by Alan Dean Foster, or a video game based on the movie. In 2004 it was also adapted as an off-broadway musical.

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1984 - Science fiction - Movie - Novel - Alan Dean Foster - Video game - 2004 - Musical

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The movie was the first major movie to use extensive computer graphics to depict real objects in place of physical models.

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The Last Starfighter is notable for having been the last film role of notable character actor Robert Preston before his death (as "Centauri"), in a lovable-con-man nod to his most famous role as Professor Harold Hill in The Music Man.

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Robert Preston - Professor Harold Hill - The Music Man

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