The Trial of Captain Sternn

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Published on August 28, 2023 2:30:27 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdDQsCeBhaI

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Heavy Metal (1981)
"Captain Sternn"
Based on the character created by Bernie Wrightson.
On a space station, crooked space captain Lincoln F. Sternn is on trial for numerous serious charges presented by the prosecutor consisting of 12 counts of murder in the first degree, 14 counts of armed theft of Federation property, 22 counts of piracy in high space, 18 counts of fraud, 37 counts of rape — and one moving violation. Pleading "not guilty" against the advice of his lawyer Charlie, Sternn explains that he expects to be acquitted because he bribed a witness named Hanover Fiste. Fiste takes the stand upon being called to by the prosecutor, but his perjury is subverted when the Loc-Nar, now the size of a marble, causes him to blurt out highly incriminating statements about Sternn (though whether or not any of them are true is unknown) before changing him into a hulking muscular brute that chases Sternn throughout the station, breaking through bulkheads and wreaking havoc. Eventually, he corners Sternn, who gives him his promised payoff, and he promptly shrinks back to his scrawny original form. Sternn opens a trap door under Fiste, ejecting him into space. The Loc-Nar enters Earth's atmosphere with Fiste's flaming severed hand still clinging to it.
Cast
Percy Rodriguez (uncredited) as Loc-Nar
Rodger Bumpass as Hanover Fiste
Joe Flaherty as Charlie, the lawyer
Douglas Kenney as Regolian
Eugene Levy as Captain Lincoln F. Sternn
John Vernon as Prosecutor
Crew
Julian Harris – director
Paul Sebella – director
Bernie Wrightson – writer
Music
"Reach Out" by Cheap Trick
Studio
Boxcar Animation Studios Inc