In this visually inventive blank adventure from the span that would go on to give the world INDEPENDENCE ERA and GODZILLA, a bashful, glasses-wearing Egyptologist (Spader) uncovers an ancient portal to another planet and is dispatched there forthwith–along with blundering, clodfooted rule troops (led by Russell). The downtrodden populace they encounter, ruled by saintly, androgynous King Ra (Davidson, in his commencement role after becoming a star in THE CRYING GAME), should be led to literacy and freedom; Ra must be defeated; the intellectual must find his masculine pride; our boys must return to Earth.