Sky pirates 1986

Harris starts for a flight to Boa Boa.

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.

Sky pirates 1986

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. Michael Hirsh John D. Lamond Rob Mowbray. John Lamond Motion Picture Enterprises. Australia USA. Action Adventure Science Fiction. Das Szenario wirkt wenig durchdacht und so war mein Goodwill gegen Ende restlos verspielt. Leider kann Sky Pirates auch nicht mit Charme punkten.

Back home Savage has Harris sentenced for insubordination by a military court. The hunt for treasure in an old plane beneath the water also has echoes with producer Tony Ginnane's adventure romp shot in New Zealand, sky pirates 1986, Race for the Yankee Zephyr. We needed a Steven Spielberg and we got a Godard.

Lamond , and directed by Colin Eggleston. In , the 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. It is imperative that the Allies have it and the Axis powers do not. The experienced aviator Lt. Harris John Hargreaves gets assigned to transport the precious item to Washington, D.

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. Michael Hirsh John D. Lamond Rob Mowbray. John Lamond Motion Picture Enterprises. Australia USA.

Sky pirates 1986

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Powered by Alexa. It is impossible to under-estimate how woeful the scripting is - there is, for example, no practical reason given why a pilot would scramble out on a plane's wing to put out a fire, without fire fighting equipment, and while under attack by a fighter plane with guns blazing. Then below that there are films that the word bad isn't enough, i. The first film to have a prospectus in Melbourne, everybody copied me afterwards. This yarn does not rip! He'd been diagnosed with lung cancer on top of the leukaemia he already had and he'd only been given about 6 months to live. Being shot in the days before CGI, much of the action involving the planes was done for real and was shot by a second unit over the countryside around Ballarat in Victoria, with Kevin Donnelly credited for the DC3 wing walking stunt. John Lamond , Michael Hirsh. Bill Hunter O'Reilly. John Lamond Michael Hirsh. Read Edit View history.

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Not withstanding the limp way the film is directed, Eggleston had to contend with a flawed script, which is too ambitious for the budget at hand. Select your preferred poster. Of course nothing of this matters to Ozmovie cultists, who work on the theory that the worse it is, the better the experience, and on that measure, Sky Pirates is a genuine top notch experience. The bar's punks then join in the feeble attempt at a Mad Max car chase, though the period truck at the heart of the chase also evokes memories of Raiders of the Lost Ark action, as does the rest of the film, albeit on a much lower budget - most notably, the plot device of the tablet, split into three and gifted with glowing cosmic universal powers, is a kissing cousin of the Ark. To be fair however, it should be noted that the film did pick up some sales, especially in Europe, travelling under the name Dakota Harris , perhaps so nobody would make the connection back to the film's status down under as a turkey. Tools Tools. However this wasn't done just for the international release, as Lamond implies - the Australian Roadshow poster also boasted: "The Ark has been Raided and the Stone Romanced. Simon Chilvers Rev. Colin Eggleston. Beautiful and exotic locations squandered on lifeless scenes. Adventure Sci-Fi. I spoke to him, he emailed me the other day, he lives in LA now. Luckily the trio are rescued by a passing ship, and Harris is court-martialled by the unpleasant Colonel Brien Peter Cummins , with Squadron Leader Savage's evidence helping to produce a conviction.