It might strike you as entirely ludicrous to learn that there is, indeed, a Playboy poster hidden within the frames of Star Wars (a movie rated "U," for God's sake), but it's true. Just sort of gives you an idea as to the kind of sick people who put together one of the greatest fantasy movies ever made - perverts, that's who. So during the building of the one of the models - the Rebel Blockade Runner - the production designers though it would be hilarious to stick a Playboy centrefold up in the interior wall, where they presumed it would be out of the view of the camera but could provide them with a bunch of laughs nonetheless. Who'd have thought that the Rebels had time for such smut?
Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.
