Sky Pirates

Sky Pirates (1986)

The Ark has been Raided and the Stone Romanced. Now, let the REAL ADVENTURE begin.

Air force Lieutenant Harris starts for a flight to Boa Boa, on board Reverend Mitchell with a box containing a part of a top-secret extraterrestrial key. They get lost in a supernatural storm and find themselves after an emergency landing in kind of a Bermuda triangle, 5,000 miles off their course. Home again, no one believes Harris' story, and his crew suspiciously denies it too. Harris is thrown in jail, but manages to escape. Together with Mitchell's daughter he seeks the lost part of the key and its secret.

Date of release
1986-01-16
TMDB
5.1 / 10 (17)
Runtime
1h 29m
Genres
Adventure, Science Fiction, Action
Director
Colin Eggleston

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: A$76.2K
  • Filmed in: Tahiti

Sky Pirates is a 1986 Australian adventure film written and produced by John D. Lamond, and directed by Colin Eggleston. The film was inspired by Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), as well as borrowing liberally from The Philadelphia Experiment (1984), The Deer Hunter (1978), Dirty Harry (1971) and Mad Max (1979).

Production

Sky Pirates was able to utilize a number of warbirds that were found in Australia including CAC Mustangs, Douglas C-47 Skytrains, Grumman Mallards and North American B-25 Mitchells. Principal photography took place in Australia from May to June 1984.

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