Sky Riders (1976)

Directed by

Douglas Hickox

Genre

action film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 31m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 34 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy woman is kidnapped by terrorists and held in a mountaintop fortress. Her husband and former husband team up to plan an aerial rescue using hang gliders.

adventurousenergeticsuspensefulnostalgicpulpymuscularfast-pacedrescue-mission

What happens

Sky Riders (also known as Assault on the Forbidden Fortress) is a 1976 American action film directed by Douglas Hickox and starring James Coburn, Susannah York and Robert Culp. The rescue sequences were filmed in Meteora in Greece where the finale of the later James Bond film For Your Eyes Only was also set later in 1981. On January 17, 2012 the film was released on DVD through Shout! Factory as part of a double feature with The Last Hard Men. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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