Dune

Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Francesca Annis	Lady Jessica
Brad Dourif	Piter De Vries
Linda Hunt	Shadout Mapes
Freddie Jones	Thufir Hawat
Kyle MacLachlan	Paul Atreides/Usul Muad'Dib
Patrick Stewart	Gurney Halleck
Max Von Sydow	Doctor Kynes
José Ferrer	Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV
Richard Jordan	Duncan Idaho
Virginia Madsen	Princess Irulan

Director	David Lynch
Producer	Dino De Laurentiis; Raffaella De Laurentiis
Writer	David Lynch; Frank Herbert
Cinematography	Freddie Francis
Musician	Steve Porcaro; Steve Lukather; David Paich; Jeff Porcaro; Mike Porcaro

Dune, based on the first of a series of novels by Frank Herbert, leaps into a future where humanity is spread across many far-flung planets and ruled by an Emperor and an aristocratic class of noble families. The vast distances of the empire are crossed faster than the speed of light only through the abilities bestowed by the spice that grows exclusively on the desert planet Arrakis. Two of the noble families, the Harkonnens and the Atreides, struggle to control production of the spice. When the brutal Harkonnens gain the upper hand, young Paul Atreides (Kyle MacLachlan) must survive and work out a way to reverse the momentum of the struggle. Is Paul the culmination of the breeding project carried out by the secretive organization of gifted women to which his mother Jessica (Francesca Annis) belongs?