The Man of Steel crusades for nuclear disarmament and meets Lex Luthor's latest creation, Nuclear Man.The Man of Steel crusades for nuclear disarmament and meets Lex Luthor's latest creation, Nuclear Man.The Man of Steel crusades for nuclear disarmament and meets Lex Luthor's latest creation, Nuclear Man.
- Awards
- 3 wins & 6 nominations
Gene Hackman
- Lex Luthor
- (voice)
- …
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- TriviaChristopher Reeve publicly regretted his involvement in the film. He wrote in his memoir, "Superman IV was a catastrophe from start to finish. That failure was a huge blow to my career."
- Goofs(at around 1h 20 mins) Lacy Warfield is able to survive in space without a space suit.
- Alternate versionsA whole sequence detailing Lex Luthor's creation and Superman's defeat of a prototype nuclear man was shot but never used. However, pictures from the scenes show up in publicity materials for the movie and it's detailed in the comic book adaption. Also shot but not used is a scene when Superman personally apologizes to the boy when he decides he can't rid the world of nuclear weapons.
- ConnectionsEdited from Superman (1978)
- SoundtracksWhole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
By Jerry Lee Lewis
Written by Curly Williams (uncredited) and Sunny David (uncredited)
Courtesy Charley Records
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A lot of promise and potential wasted
Its Supes versus Nukes for the fourth, much-derided Superman adventure often slated for its repressing low-budget, inferior special effects and a whole wad of plot holes and incoherence thanks no doubt to the extraction of a whole fifty minutes, much of the film's middle portion. Yet, among the wreckage are signs that there was a good film in here somewhere, as our hero struggles to decide whether or not to intervene in human history and the character's rather touching realisation that he is not just a visitor to Earth. A nicely-toned return to the Lois-Clark-Superman relationship also could have rooted the film back to its glorious predecessors - bar number three - but once Nuclear Man shows up and the film's story is cut in half, all promise and potential disappears from the project and the audience is left with a strictly mediocre re-tread of Superman II.
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- Mar 28, 2006
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- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Superman IV - Die Welt am Abgrund
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $17,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $15,681,020
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $5,683,122
- Jul 26, 1987
- Gross worldwide
- $30,281,020
- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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By what name was Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) officially released in India in Hindi?
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