Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome is a 1985 Australian post-apocalyptic film directed by George Miller and George Ogilvie, written by Miller, Doug Mitchell and Terry Hayes, and starring Mel Gibson and Tina Turner. It is the third installment in the action movie Mad Max series, its story taking place fifteen years after that of the previous film. The original music score was composed by Maurice Jarre. Max Rockatansky rides a camel-drawn wagon across the Australian desert when he is attacked by Jedediah, a pilot flying a Transavia PL-12 Airtruk, who steals his belongings and vehicle. Max continues on... foot and stumbles upon the only nearby human outpost in the wasteland—the seedy community of Bartertown, founded and run by the ruthless Aunty Entity. In Bartertown, electricity, vehicles, functioning technology are made possible by a crude methane refinery, fueled by pig feces. The refinery is located under Bartertown and is operated by the diminutive Master, who is carried around by his enormously strong bodyguard, Blaster. "Master Blaster" holds an uneasy truce with Aunty for control of Bartertown.
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| Release date: | July 10, 1985 |
| Directed by: | George Miller, George Ogilvie, George Ogilvie |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 107 Minutes |
| Producer: | George Miller, Doug Mitchell, Terry Hayes |
| Editor: | Richard Francis-Bruce |
| Music by: | Maurice Jarre, Tina Turner |
| Cinematography: | Dean Semler |
| Screenplay by: | George Miller, Terry Hayes |
| Estimated budget: | $12,000,000 |
| Genre: | Science Fiction, Action |