Superman III

Adventure, Fantasy, Action, Sci-Fi

Christopher Reeve	Superman/Clark Kent
Richard Pryor	Gus Gorman
Margot Kidder	Lois Lane
Jackie Cooper	Perry White
Marc McClure	Jimmy Olsen
Annette O'Toole	Lana Lang
Annie Ross	Vera Webster
Pamela Stephenson	Lorelei Ambrosia
Robert Vaughn	Ross Webster
Gavan O'Herlihy	Brad

Director	Richard Lester
Producer	Pierre Spengler
Writer	David Newman; Leslie Newman; Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster

Here was a case in which the progenitors of this successful comic-book adaptation figured they had to go in a new direction--and chose the wrong one. For starters, they recruited comedian Richard Pryor, who was the kiss of death for almost every movie he was in except his own concert films. He plays a computer specialist who is hired by a criminal mastermind (Robert Vaughan) to help him take on Superman by exposing him to a new form of Kryptonite: red Kryptonite, which always had unpredictable effects in the comic books. In this film, it splits Superman in two, dividing his good self from his dark side. The special effects had gone about as far as they could, and this movie strains to hold an audience's interest for its full running length. --Marshall Fine