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The line “Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope,” never had so much meaning.

The original “Star Wars’’ movie was nearly banished to a galaxy far, far away by a mutinous production crew — only to be saved at the last minute by legendary Obi-Wan actor Sir Alec Guinness, a new tome reveals.

Guinness, who portrayed the galactic icon in the 1977 classic, lent creator/director George Lucas the “credibility” he desperately needed to keep his staff of malcontents in line, set designer Roger Christian writes in his memoir “Cinema Alchemist.”

“I honestly think he held the production together,” Christian said of the stately Guinness, the Times of London reported.

The crew had turned on Lucas during filming, and the mutiny had gotten so bad that the studio, 20th Century Fox, had to fly in an executive to stage an emergency intervention, said Christian, 72, who invented the light saber and the original model for the droid R2D2.

But once Sir Alec showed up, he proved to be a Jedi master of diplomacy, wowing everyone with his “complete mastery as an actor’’ and professionalism by refusing to talk bad about anyone, turning the tide on the production, Christian said.

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