| Sky Riders | |
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| Directed by | Douglas Hickox |
| Written by | Jack DeWitt Stanley Mann Garry Michael White |
| Screenplay by | Jack DeWitt Greg MacGillivray |
| Produced by | Terry Morse Jr. Sandy Howard |
| Starring | James Coburn Susannah York Robert Culp |
| Cinematography | Jim Freeman Greg MacGillivray Ousama Rawi |
| Edited by | Malcolm Cooke |
| Music by | Lalo Schifrin |
Production company | 20th Century Fox |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date |
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Running time | 91 min |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1,730,000 (US/ Canada)[1] |
Sky Riders (also known as Assault on the Forbidden Fortress) is a 1976 American action film directed by Douglas Hickox and starring James Coburn, Susannah York and Robert Culp.[2][3]
The rescue sequences were filmed in Meteora in Greece where the finale of the later James Bond film For Your Eyes Only was also set later in 1981.
On January 17, 2012 the film was released on DVD through Shout! Factory as part of a double feature with The Last Hard Men.
- ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p233. Please note figures are rentals accruing to distributors and not total gross.
- ^ "Sky Riders (1976)". BFI. Archived from the original on March 13, 2016.
- ^ SKY RIDERS Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 43, Iss. 504, (Jan 1, 1976): 107.