Sky Bandits (1986 film)

Sky Bandits
Directed byZoran Perisic
Written byThom Keyes
Produced byRichard Herland
Starring
CinematographyDavid Watkin[1]
Edited byPeter Tanner[1]
Music byAlfi Kabiljo
Production
companies
J&M Entertainment
London Front
Distributed byEntertainment Film Distributors (United Kingdom)
Galaxy International Releasing (United States)[2][1]
Release dates
  • 31 October 1986 (1986-10-31) (United States)
  • 10 July 1987 (1987-07-10) (United Kingdom)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget$18 million[3]
Box office$2,295,500[4]

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).[citation needed]

  1. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference Chicago Tribune was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference LAT was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ The 12th Annual Grosses Gloss Thompson, Anne. Film Comment; New York Vol. 23, Iss. 2, (Mar 1987): 62-64,66-69.
  4. ^ "Sky Bandits". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 15 December 2019.