Daring British WWI fighter pilot James "Biggles" Bigglesworth and 1980s low-level business executive Jim Ferguson discover that they can time travel to each other's eras. They try to stop th... Read allDaring British WWI fighter pilot James "Biggles" Bigglesworth and 1980s low-level business executive Jim Ferguson discover that they can time travel to each other's eras. They try to stop the Germans from changing the outcome of WWI.Daring British WWI fighter pilot James "Biggles" Bigglesworth and 1980s low-level business executive Jim Ferguson discover that they can time travel to each other's eras. They try to stop the Germans from changing the outcome of WWI.
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- 1 nomination
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Did you know
- TriviaFeatures Peter Cushing's last screen performance, filmed January 21-March 1985 (copyright 1985).
- GoofsWhen Biggles is talking with Peter Cushing's character in Tower Bridge, there is a raven stood upon a perch. Immediately after Biggles comments on the photograph of him and his colleagues, the bird is seen to defecate. The microphone even catches the sound of the dropping hitting the floor.
- Quotes
[Now in 1986, Biggles has climbed behind the controls of a police helicopter]
Jim Ferguson: You can't fly this. You don't know how.
Biggles: If you can fly a Sopwith Camel, you can fly anything.
- Crazy creditsIn the end of the credits it says: Filmed on location in New York - London - and the Western Front 1917.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Biggles: The Making of a Movie (1985)
- SoundtracksDO YOU WANT TO BE A HERO
Performed by Jon Anderson
Music by Stanislas Syrewicz
Lyrics by Jon Anderson
Published by Warner Brothers Music/Tizz Music
administrated by Warner Brothers Music
This is an amusing film with emotion, breathtaking scenes, dogfighting , wooden but likeable interpretation and a lot of twists and turns . The much-loved WWI heroics of Biggles , the pilot from Captain WE Johns series of books are updated to 1986 Manhattan via a time travel gimmick, being prior adapted in a long TV series .Time-travel fantasy in which an ingenious executive is transported to Europe WWI and suffering several adventures , risks and dangers. The time-travelling American young is played by the sympathetic Alex Hyde White as a naive executive and his buddy is Neal Dickson as Biggles who is the best thing in a passable film that hardly plays fair with buffs of the original . Support cast is frankly well such as Fiona Hutchinson, Marcus Gilbert , William Hootkins and special mention for the great Peter Cushing in his last acting , playing an important secret agent whose headquarter is in the Tower Bridge .The big drawback is the horrible soundtrack by Stanislas composed by synthesizer , it ruins the film. It packs a colorful and evocative cinematography .
The motion pictures was professionally directed by John Hough including some flaws and gaps. Hough is a fine craftsman who has a long, uneven and eclectic career directing all kinds of genres . As he made terror movies: Hell's gate, Howling 4, American Gothic, Incubus , Legend of Hell house, Twins of evil ; Adventures: Treasure island, Escape to Witch Mountain, Return from Witch Mountain, Black arrow , The watcher in the woods, Dirty Mary crazy Larry ; Romantic drama: Duel of hearts , The lady and the highwayman, The dying truth ; Western : Triumphs of a man called Horse; Suspense: Eye witness and WWII : Brass target.
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- Also known as
- Der Biggels-Effekt
- Filming locations
- Beckton Gasworks, Beckton, London, Greater London, England, UK(city ruins/bunker scene)
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $112,132
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1