Sky Bandits (1986)

Directed by

Zoran Perisic

Genre

adventure film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

PG

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two outlaws from the Wild West are sent to World War I where they join the Royal Flying Corps and fly early warplanes called gunbuses.

lightheartedfast-pacedwhimsicalnostalgicadventurousdramatichigh-flyingretro

What happens

Sky Bandits, also known as 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 Flying Corps flying early warplanes called gunbuses. The film was directed by Zoran Perisic and made extensive use of the Zoptic technique he had developed for the flying sequences on Superman (1978). The production holds the record for the largest film crew on a fiction film (582). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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