Arena (1975)

Cinema: The Force is With Us? (1978x1)

: 11, 1978

Star Wars - the biggest and fastest money-maker in the history of the movies - has opened in Britain at last. What on earth - or in heaven - has caused the phenomenal success of this galactic romp-cum-morality tale? Gavin Millar talks to the producer Gary Kurtz, the designer John Barry, and to Mark Hamill, who plays the young hero Luke Skywalker.