Parody Because audiences had seen these classic Westerns, they had expectations for any new Westerns, and when these expectations were inverted, the audience laughed. Perhaps the earliest parody film was the 1922 "Mud and Sand", a Stan Laurel film that made fun of Rudolph Valentino's film "Blood and Sand". Laurel specialized in parodies in the mid-1920s, writing and acting in a number of them. Some were send-ups of popular films, such as "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"—parodied in the comic "Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde" (1926). Others were spoofs of Broadway plays, such as "No, No, Nanette" (1925), parodied as "Yes,
Battle Beyond the Stars Corey in BBTS, began his adventures from the planet Akir with Nell. It also has the characters of Dr. Hephaestus and Sador of the Malmori. Battle Beyond the Stars Battle Beyond the Stars is a 1980 American space opera film from New World Pictures, produced by Roger Corman, directed by Jimmy T. Murakami, that stars Richard Thomas, Robert Vaughn, George Peppard, John Saxon, Sybil Danning, and Darlanne Fluegel. "Battle Beyond the Stars", intended as a ""Magnificent Seven" in outer space", is based on "The Magnificent Seven" (in which Vaughn also appeared), the Western remake of Akira Kurosawa's film "Seven Samurai".