"Star Wars"
(clockwise from top) Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Alec Guinness and Harrison Ford in the first “Star Wars,” later subtitled “Episode IV – A New Hope,” from Twentieth Century Fox

"Star Wars"

The George Lucas saga about a clan of Skywalkers shows what a summer blockbuster can be when imagination trumps greed.

By Peter Travers

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Two years after 1975’s “Jaws” became the highest grossing film in history, George Lucas overtook it with a little space romp he dubbed  “Star Wars” and once again the box office did not know what hit it.