# Arena - Todesmatch der Giganten (1989)

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**Original title**: *Arena*
**Runtime**: 94 min
**Genres**: Science Fiction, Action
**Directed by**: Peter Manoogian
**Written by**: Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo
**Starring**: Paul Satterfield, Hamilton Camp, Claudia Christian, Marc Alaimo, Shari Shattuck, Armin Shimerman

> *For a thousand years no human has been the champion. He wants to be the first.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You're a short-order cook on a space station catering to alien prizefighters. But you enter the ring, beating the odds. A local gangster puts a target on your back. Manoogian's low-budget sets recall Roger Corman, as does the underdog story.

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