''Precious Find'' (also known as ''Space Defender'') is a 1996

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directed by

Philippe Mora Philippe Mora (born 1949) is a French-born Australian artist and film director. Origin Mora was born in Paris, France in 1949 to a Lithuanian-Jewish mother and a German-Jewish father. He is the eldest son of artist Mirka Mora and her husban ...

and starring

Rutger Hauer Rutger Oelsen Hauer (; 23 January 1944 – 19 July 2019) was a Dutch actor, with a career that spanned over 170 roles across nearly 50 years, beginning in 1969. In 1999, he was named by the Dutch public as the Best Dutch Actor of the Century. H ...

. The film is set on the Moon, in 2049.

Plot

In the future, at Moon City, fate brings three adventurers together: a space ship owner, a young

prospector Prospector may refer to: Space exploration * Prospector (spacecraft), a planned lunar probe, canceled in 1962 * ''Lunar Prospector'', a NASA spacecraft Trains * Prospector (train), a passenger train operated by the Denver & Rio Grande Western ra ...

, and a shady entrepreneur who are looking for gold on an asteroid. There they find a mine. After the prospector returns to Moon City to get water, he is followed by two soldiers of fortune, a man and a woman. The two join the three adventures. Frictions occur because the

gold rush A gold rush or gold fever is a discovery of gold—sometimes accompanied by other precious metals and rare-earth minerals—that brings an onrush of miners seeking their fortune. Major gold rushes took place in the 19th century in Australia, ...

gives the

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a bad temper, the prospector and the woman get romantically involved, a monster attacks, and bandits visit the place. The movie ends with the death of the bandits and the entrepreneur, and the space ship owner, the prospector, and the woman going for new adventures searching for gold.

Cast

as Armond Crille *

Joan Chen Joan Chen (simplified Chinese; 陈冲; born April 26, 1961) is an American actress and film director. She made her film debut in the Chinese film ''Youth'' (1977) before starring in the film (1979). She came to the attention of American audien ...

as Camilla Jones * Harold Pruett as Ben Rutherford

External links

* * 1996 films Films set on the Moon Films set in 2049 American space adventure films 1996 science fiction action films Films directed by Philippe Mora 1990s English-language films American science fiction action films American adventure films 1990s American films 1996 science fiction films English-language science fiction action films {{1990s-US-film-stub