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Sky Bandits (other)
Sky Bandits may refer to: * ''Sky Bandits'' (1940 film), an American film directed by Ralph Staub * ''Sky Bandits'' (1986 film), a British film directed by Zoran Perisic See also * Sky pirate (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sky Bandits (1940 Film)
''Sky Bandits'', also known as ''Renfrew of the Royal Mounted in Sky Bandits'', is a 1940 American action film directed by Ralph Staub and released by Monogram Pictures, starring James Newill, Louise Stanley, Dewey Robinson and William Pawley. The film is a remake of the film ''Ghost Patrol'' (1936) with a musical/action formula, similar to the format of the "singing cowboy" films of the era. Plot Sergeant Renfrew ( James Newill) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Constable Kelly ( Dave O'Brien) fly in search of a missing aircraft flown by Buzz Murphy (Eddie Featherston). Murphy was carrying a shipment of gold from the Yukon Mine Company. Local radio announcer Uncle Dimwittie (Dewey Robinson), has bugged the mine office, and is secretly transmitting information about gold shipments, in the guise of reading children's stories on the air. The messages are picked up by a gang led by a crook named Morgan (William Pawley). They have forced Professor Lewis (Joe De Stefani) to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sky Bandits (1986 Film)
''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). Plot Caught after a series of dynamite-fuelled bank robberies in the dying days of the Old West, Barney ( Scott McGinnis) and Luke (Jeff Osterhage) are forced into conscription in a US unit being sent to the trenches in France in the middle of World War I. In the maelstrom of the frontlines, Barney and Luke use their gunslinging skills to shoot the pilot of a low-flying German bomber. Using the chaos to abscond from their unit, they impersonate two British RFC officers to sneak into an officer's mess, whereupon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |