Biggles (film)
| Biggles | |
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Original British 1986 quad film poster
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| Directed by | John Hough |
| Produced by |
Pom Oliver Kent Walwin |
| Screenplay by | John Groves Kent Walwin |
| Based on | the Biggles books by W. E. Johns |
| Starring |
Neil Dickson Alex Hyde-White Fiona Hutchison Peter Cushing Marcus Gilbert William Hootkins |
| Music by | Stanislas Syrewicz |
| Cinematography | Ernest Vincze |
| Edited by | Richard Trevor |
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Production
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Compact Yellowbill
Tambarle |
| Distributed by | UIP (UK) |
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Running time
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92 min. |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Biggles is a 1986 British sci-fi adventure film directed by John Hough and later released in 1988 in the United States as Biggles: Adventures in Time). The plot involves a time traveller from the 1980s who is inserted into World War I to help the character Biggles from the series of novels by W. E. Johns and where Biggles also travels to the 1980s to fight time-travelling World War I Germans. The film stars Neil Dickson, Alex Hyde-White and Peter Cushing in his final feature film role.
Catering salesman Jim Ferguson (Alex Hyde-White), living in the present time in New York City, falls through a time hole to 1917 where he saves the life of dashing Royal Flying Corps pilot James "Biggles" Bigglesworth (Neil Dickson) after his photo recon mission is shot down. Before he can work out what has happened, Jim is zapped back to the 1980s. With assistance from Biggles' former commanding officer Raymond (Peter Cushing) who lives in the Tower Bridge in London, Ferguson learns that he and Biggles are "time twins", spontaneously travelling through time when one or the other is in mortal danger. Together, Ferguson and Biggles fight across time and against the odds to stop the Germans changing the course of history by destroying a "Sound Weapon" with a Metropolitan Police helicopter that was stolen by Biggles while escaping a SWAT Team in 1986 London.
The film was produced by Yellowbill Films, a company set up in 1979 by British producer Kent Walwin, and one of its first acquisitions was the rights to the Biggles character. Additional financing came from a subsidiary of Hammer Films, Tambarle Ab Ltd, and Heath Financial Services, a group of insurance brokers, which the film is copyrighted by. In 1988, Compact Yellowbill Ltd was set up, a company 50/50 owned by Kent Walwin and the other producer, Pom Oliver, and the film's production credit was changed to that.
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