Which film features the Mos Eisley Cantina?
Mos Eisley Mos Eisley Mos Eisley is a spaceport town in the fictional "Star Wars" universe. Located on the planet Tatooine, it first appeared in the 1977 film "Star Wars", described by the character Obi-Wan Kenobi (played by Alec Guinness) as a "wretched hive of scum and villainy." Scenes set in Mos Eisley made a particular impact on audiences as they included a noted scene in an insalubrious cantina frequented by numerous alien races. Location filming for the spaceport took place in 1975-6 in Tunisia with interiors filmed at Elstree Studios in London. Mos Eisley made its first appearance in the original
Mos Eisley the novelization of the film, "" by George Lucas (ghostwritten by Alan Dean Foster), Mos Eisley is described as a haphazard, run-down settlement built of concrete and sandstone, a large part of it built underground to escape the heat of Tatooine's twin suns. The cantina is described as a dark, sinister bar full of "one-eyed creatures and thousand-eyed, creatures with scales, creatures with fur". The narrative describes "Tentacles, claws and hands... wrapped around drinking utensils". The Expanded Universe anthology of intertwined short stories, "Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina", edited by Kevin J. Anderson, explores the cantina and its clientele