Sky pirates 1986

Lamondand directed by Colin Eggleston. Inthe Second World War is about to come to an end. Meanwhile, the Australian military has come across an ancient device which can be used to travel through time, sky pirates 1986. It is imperative that the Allies have it and the Axis powers do not.

Harris starts for a flight to Boa Boa. But he gets lost in a supernatural storm. Home again, no one believes Harris' story, and his crew suspiciously denies it too. Harris is thrown in jail, Read all Harris starts for a flight to Boa Boa. Harris is thrown in jail, but manages to escape.

Sky pirates 1986

Easter Island, March , and grave robbers steal a powerful, magical tablet in a cave. The tablet breaks into three and all hell breaks loose in the cave, but not before one bit of the tablet is snatched away. It was August , just before the end of World War Two. All I knew was what I'd been told … report to a secret air base and fly an American plane to Washington…. Boarding the plane, along with a mysterious box containing precious cargo, is the Rev. Mitchell Simon Chilvers , a man who knows an unclerical lot about all kinds of black magic and potent superstitions and the force that controls the entire universe, General Hackett Simon Scott and his aide Logan Wayne Cull , while Harris is obliged to share the Dakota's controls with his old enemy, the blonde, devious Squadron Leader Savage Max Phipps. The preacher's beautiful daughter Melanie Meredith Phipps is left behind on the ground: " Phew, think we left the best piece behind," says a whistling Harris. Soon enough the general's aide, Logan, sneaks a peek at the box, the plane's rivets pop, and it's caught in a time warp, with all sorts of electricity and strange sights flowing, and is forced to ditch into the ocean. With the plane's crew gone to the deep, the five survivors - the Reverend, the General, Logan, Harris and Savage - make it to an eerie, abandoned US naval vessel, the U. Dakota, in a sea of lost ships and planes: "Le mar de los barcos perdidos", intones the Rev.

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Air force Lieutenant Harris starts for a flight to Boa Boa, on board Reverend Mitchell with a box containing a part of a top-secret extraterrestrial key. They get lost in a supernatural storm and find themselves after an emergency landing in kind of a Bermuda triangle, 5, miles off their course. Home again, no one believes Harris' story, and his crew suspiciously denies it too. Harris is thrown in jail, but manages to escape. Together with Mitchell's daughter he seeks the lost part of the key and its secret.

Air force Lieutenant Harris starts for a flight to Boa Boa, on board Reverend Mitchell with a box containing a part of a top-secret extraterrestrial key. They get lost in a supernatural storm and find themselves after an emergency landing in kind of a Bermuda triangle, 5, miles off their course. Home again, no one believes Harris' story, and his crew suspiciously denies it too. Harris is thrown in jail, but manages to escape. Together with Mitchell's daughter he seeks the lost part of the key and its secret. John Powditch Stuart Wood.

Sky pirates 1986

Sign In. Sky Pirates Hide Spoilers. The success of Raiders of the Lost Ark lead to the inevitable copycat movies and rip-offs, the best known being High Road to China with Tom Selleck ironically the original choice to play Indiana Jones as a WWI veteran pilot escorting heiress Bess Armstrong through the Middle East and Asia on a quest to find her explorer father; the TV series Tales of the Gold Monkey in which freelance flier Stephen Collins indulged in assorted hi-jinks on a chain of Pacific islands in the s; and two awfully tacky movies, shot back-to-back, with Richard Chamberlain as Allan Quartermain - King Solomon's Mines and Allan Quartermain and the City of Gold My favourite of these Raider wannabes is Sky Pirates , an Australian movie that bravely tries to match the thrills and spills of it's Hollywood counterparts on a fraction of their budget. You can't accuse the producers of lacking ambition. The plot makes use of various New Age conspiracy theories concerning the Bermuda Triangle, the Philadelphia Experiment, and aliens visiting Earth in ancient times and assisting mankind's development. However, when a crew member tries to sneak a look at what they're carrying, all hell breaks loose, as - in the film's best sequence - the plane plunges into another dimension, where past, present and future all intersect a fact cleverly illustrated by having the radio operator pick up wireless traffic about the assassination of JFK, the first moon landing, and a Mayday call from the Titanic, plus Harris having a near miss with a modern-day jet fighter.

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More like this. All I knew was what I'd …. When the iconic Raiders Of The Lost Ark came out back in the day, there were a billion of copy-cat movies the sprung up it seemed. Eggleston only had a couple of pictures left in him in Australia as David Stratton noted in his August obituary for Variety here :. There's just time for Harris to throw his lucky charm into the sea - he's got a new one he plans to keep right alongside him - and after a quick pash, the pair walk past the Easter Island monuments one last time, before the seaplane takes off, and end credits roll Sky Pirates PG 1h 29m. Connections Featured in Shadow of the Shark Clinging to an engine or a pontoon while traveling mph takes guts! Thus, Sky Pirates joins such cinematic turkeys as 's Race for the Yankee Zephyr although that was apparently something of a hit in the Soviet Union bizarrely , The Return of Captain…. The bar scene in the arid dead heart, with its population of eccentrics and low lifers, also obviously owes a little to the bar scene in Star Wars and to the punkish style of Mad Max. Kudos to the stuntman who filmed the aerial scenes. The film is frequently dated to , the year of its domestic release, but it was shot in in the middle of and and completed by the end of that year - though the end credits carry a copyright notice for Lamond, one of the pioneers of Australia's sexploitation film industry, aims to shoot his first movie in Oz since 's Sky Pirates later this year. John Murphy Gus.

Harris starts for a flight to Boa Boa. But he gets lost in a supernatural storm. Home again, no one believes Harris' story, and his crew suspiciously denies it too.

And where, at the end of Raiders , a multitude of Nazis are fried, only Max Phipps' Savage is around to be turned into a Pompeii-like shape in Sky Pirates. German viewers particularly appreciated the show, as did the French, though perhaps the dubbed performances added an extra layer to the viewing experience. Sky Pirates was Lamond's most expensive failure and it had consequences:. Am ehesten noch die launige deutsche Synchronisation. Lamond also approached George "Noddy" aka Snowy River Miller, but he wasn't as keen on the project as was Lamond to have him direct it. The only way I could recommend this film is to film students as an exercise in how not to do everything in a film. Am meisten imponiert Dakotas Fliegerkappe und die tolle Jacke, der Inhaber aber weniger. This tablet was broken into three pieces, which were stolen by grave robbers … we see the tablet breaking into three pieces, when dropped by a grave robber, and the statue toppling as the men flee the subterranean cavern. Running time. The barman Tommy Dysart is non-committal, but Harris devises a novel way of getting information from proprietor O'Reilly Bill Hunter : "I'll play you for it," says O'Reilly, and Harris responds, dropping a revolver on to the table, "I play for high stakes… forget the cards, let's play a man's game.