The Black Hole 1979 is Disney's best movie. (imo)

Riding on the coat tails (or is that tales) of Star Wars, Disney decided to dip a toe into the world of live action Sci-Fi and in 1979 bought us "The Black Hole".

The premise is simple, the crew of the rather industrious survey ship "Palomino" find a black hole but more to the point a lost ship in stationary orbit around said hole.
The ship the "Cygnus" was thought lost with all hands years before.

The cast for the film were by in large fairly big ticket names, Robert Forster. Ernest Borgnine, Yvette Mimieux, Anthony Perkins, Roddy McDowall and of course the excellent Maximillian Schell.

Vincent was the crew's robot companion who served up a beautiful degree of sarcastic humour to the crew, including such delights as:

Lt. Charles Pizer: We'd be better off without you and Maximilian trying to knock heads.
V.I.N.CENT: I can handle that thing.
Lt. Charles Pizer: Well, far be it from you to admit there isn't anything you can't handle.
V.I.N.CENT: There are three basic types, Mr. Pizer: the Wills, the Won'ts, and the Can'ts. The Wills accomplish everything, the Won'ts oppose everything, and the Can'ts won't try anything.
Capt. Dan Holland: Well, do us all a favor, V.I.N.CENT, and try to be a Can't, especially where that monster is concerned. We need you, not another corkscrew.

Some of the larger set pieces were breathtaking and the film had a huge feeling of scale and power to it.

Ahhh Dr Hans Heinhardt, hot wishing to spoil everything, the "bad guy" but a propper old school gentleman bad guy......with a huge ship......and robot guards.

He has a dream to go where no-one has ever gone before, into......you guessed it.

The black hole.

Lots of things happen. Some of the effects are a little (cough) shonky by today's standards but it's the feel of the film that makes it great, a real sense of adventure.

Robot people in arcade style deathmatch.

And of course there is Reinhardt's companion, protector and I don't want to know what else "Maximillian"
Ever present as the silent killer, it says nothing yet exudes a tremendous feeling of hate and venom.

There are of course twists.

And badly made costumes.
The other robot is Bob, who is Vincent's cousin (well similar model) onboard the Cygnus, who Maximillian and the guards have beaten to near destruction.
The effect of the damage was caused by the director hitting the clay model with a baseball bat. Slim Pickens (yes the bomb guy) did the voice.

I made this as I was playing Ark the other day and mentioned it and no-one had heard of it apart from one guy who's response was "I remember that film it was awesome".

Anyway, give it a try it's a proper good romp.