This was one of those "we wore out our six-hundredth copy of 'Beastmaster' and our thousandth copy of Krull, so here's this" movies on HBO and upper-tier cable channels back in the day.
Even when I was still in grade school and saw this on late night, I wanted to know how anyone was convinced that "Stargrove" was a believable surname along that it would be a good idea to use it, well, anywhere.