Salvage (1979)

Director
Lee Phillips

Main cast
Andy Griffith; Joel Higgins; Trish Stewart; J. Jay Saunders; Raleigh Bond

Genres
TV Movie, Action, Comedy

Description
Griffith stars as a junkyard owner who builds a space ship from his scrap pile in order to retreive valuable parts left on the moon by American Astronauts.


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