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Sky Bandits is a British film of genre War released in USA on 31 october 1986 with Scott McGinnis

Sky Bandits (1986)

Sky Bandits
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Released in USA 31 october 1986
Length 1h45
Genres War,    Action,    Adventure
Rating46% 2.3300452.3300452.3300452.3300452.330045

Sky Bandits (a.k.a. Gunbus) is a 1986 British adventure film about two outlaws from the Wild West, drafted to the battlefields of WWI, who enlist in the fledgling Royal Air Force flying early warplanes called gunbuses.

The film was directed by Zoran Perisic and made extensive use of the Zoptics technique he had developed for the flying sequences on Superman. The production holds the record for the largest film crew on a fiction film (582).

Synopsis

Quand deux cow-boys sont capturés dans le vieil ouest en essayant de voler une banque, ils sont exilés aux premières lignes de la Première Guerre mondiale pour se battre aux côtés des Britanniques. Ils font un pari pour voir s'ils peuvent piloter un Gunbus, mais ils finissent par se retrouver dans une autre base sous un officier qui est déterminé à traquer un dirigeable allemand.

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