Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

1977

George Lucas built a galactic myth out of Saturday matinee serials and old hero legends. Mark Hamill plays Luke Skywalker, a farm boy pulled off a desert planet into a rebellion against an empire, with Harrison Ford as the smuggler Han Solo, Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia, and Alec Guinness as the exiled Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi. The film that reset what a blockbuster could be and launched the most durable franchise in American movies.